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is nc.com so we're here in the ocz booth at
computex 2013 now they find themselves in a bit of an interesting position
where the move toward boards Enterprise Solutions has been underway for a very
long time but that doesn't mean you can necessarily abandon the consumer either
so while the vector hasn't been updated this drive's been on the market for
quite a while there are a couple of new additions to the product line so number
one is the vertex 450 right here so this
uses the same IND linkx Barefoot 3 controller as the vector but what it
adds is the latest 20 nanm n flash so
basically that gives you a cost savings now the problem right now is that with
the Nan shortage that has been going on and I know most sort of general
consumers don't concern themselves with these things but they're very very real
and very very true unfortunately the pricing you've seen on ctor over the
last little while and the pricing you're seeing on vertex 450 now in the middle
of a shortage isn't that different but in the future that should be an
advantage for the vertex 450 compared to the vector now this one right here is
definitely not about cost savings this is the vector PCIe so if you're familiar
with ocz's Revo drive line of products from the past basically it's a PCI
Express device so it's a PCI e4x interface you've got two indel link
Barefoot three controllers each with a full SSD on them so this eliminates the
SATA 3 bottleneck allowing it to achieve up to 1 gab per second as well as
140,000 iops per second which is much
more than you can possibly push over a single SATA 3 interface now we're going
to go around a corner which is going to be very hazardous for the entire team
moving around here with all these like wires going on so all this stuff on the
left you've seen before but this guy right here is new now when we were at
CES we were showing off a software solution that ocz was working on that
would allow their SSD products to accelerate databases and accelerate
specific workloads in a very um in a very impactful way this guy right here
is pretty much where that product is headed so it's a hardware device this is
the ZD XL SQL accelerator and if you
don't know what it does then you just have to read the title it implements
some of the software development that they've done and adds it to what is a
dedicated device that is designed just for this so pretty much I'm not an
expert when it comes to SQL databases so the camera's looking at it right now
read that if none of it means anything to you then you're probably not the
Target customer but if you do understand all of that then it should be pretty
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techtips not quite sure what happened there but here we are in the ocz booth
where uh we are actually going to be showing off a couple of new products so
the fatality series of power supplies has been around for a pretty long time
at this point but now we have the new fatality Series so they're
launching a couple of different capacities the 750 watt as well as their
550 watt these are both fully modular power supplies so if you come around the
right side here you'll be able to have a look at how there are absolutely no
cables attached to them unfortunately unlike the fatality 1000 watt we don't
get the individually sleeved cables that made that particular PSU very very
impressive but what we do get is an updated feature set so they're 80 plus
bronze certified as well as having full support for Intel's Haswell fourth
generation core series processor what that basically means is even at
extremely low loads they're able to provide stable enough power that the
processor is able to go down into its C6 and C7 States giving you very very low
idle power consumption they also come with 5-year warranties and now I think
we're actually done with without sort of forgetting about anything no that's not
new