OCZ Suite @ CES 2011 Z-Drive R3 Revodrive X2 Vertex 3 Pro & More Linus Tech Tips
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·2011-05-08
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3 2 1 go so guys I'm here in the ocz
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suite and we've actually got a ton of new stuff even more than we saw at CES
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201010 so there's a few things here that probably won't have much relevance to
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your everyday consumer now but it's a bit of a glimpse into what we're going
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to see in the future so this is a very early mockup of what's called an Ibis XL
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so this uses the proprietary ocz hsdl
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interface which is much much faster than
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even SATA 6 GB per second so you see that back there it looks kind of like a
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SAS connection but like I said it is significantly faster so this guy is
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available in capacities up to 4 terab
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and then beyond that you can even expand it to up to 16 terab so uh that's pretty
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much unheard of at this point for an SSD so moving right along this is what I was
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talking about before this is hsdl this is their Ibis Drive I've actually
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unboxed this on my channel in the past so you guys should be pretty familiar
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with this well here's an optical version of hsdl so now we're converting hsdl
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into an optical signal that we can carry over a much thinner and probably
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potentially a much longer C uh cable depending on the applications that we're
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trying to go for here so that is one of the things that they are showcasing here
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in the suite moving over we have some more things that we're already familiar
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with this is Revo Drive X2 this is a bootable uh I believe it uses quad
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controllers for sand Force SF 1200
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controllers you can actually hear if I can get my camera man to come in and
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have a look at the overall specs so you guys can read that uh rather than me
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listing off everything but there's the key one up to
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120,000 4K iops this is a consumer level
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product it is pricey but it is Within Reach Revo Drive is fewer controllers
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lesser performance not bootable but still a very high performance storage
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solution so let's keep moving on down here and we're going to find some more
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interesting stuff this is z Drive R3 and what's cool about this guy is that not
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only does do we have Z Drive level performance we are using a newer sand
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Force controller the 1565 and we also have full support for trim so even
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though this is a raid on a card we do have trim support so that is just a a
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first I have never seen an SSD drive in person before that supports raid and
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trim well internal raid and trim at the same time Z Drive R2 we've seen this
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before as far as I can recall and this is a cool one over here so this is
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Helios this guy uses SAS 2 6 GB per
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second this same thing here ocz has
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built in custom logic that allows it to use an internal raid without actually
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booting into a raid BIOS configuring the drive and doing everything manually what
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that means is they have bypassed all of the limitations that existed in the past
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for these internal raid drives but they're still able to deliver
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outstanding performance so up here you can have a quick look with um the ones
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that we're looking at right now we're looking at up to 85k iops at 4K but with
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the newer controllers we can potentially even double that so these are deneva
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drives these ones are like I said not everything here is going to be relevant
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to Consumers these are mostly geared towards corporate customers and moving
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along we have quite a few things that we're familiar with like vertex 2x
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that's an SLC version of the vertex 2 we also have the vertex 3 Pro these are
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preliminary specifications these are not finalized this is using the new
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sandforce SF 2582 controller which
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supports SATA 3 6 GB per second so check out those reads right speeds those are
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well above the maximum rated throw put of SATA 2 so that is why we did need to
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move well we ocz did need to move to a SATA 3 interface vertex 3 ex is that
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except SLC flash so slightly better performance better longevity let's keep
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moving along here vertex 2 Pro is pretty much like vertex 2 except it uses an SF
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1500 controller which means it does have power loss data protection it has a
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super cap on it not necessarily real relevant for your everyday average Joe
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consumer but it's a great option to have here's a Vertex 2 and a
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1.8 in form factor here's the vertex 2
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we're very familiar with and this is a neat one so this is a vertex 2 3 and 1/2
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in drive but instead of using a big uh boxy enclosure like here you can see
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let's compare it against the ibys I want to get that top down here up here and
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then down yeah top down perspective on these so you can see they've built a
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much Slimmer 3 and 1/2 in enclosure for
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that vertex to drive much sleeker and sexier look looking here we have Onyx
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and Onyx 2 based on indel links and sf200 so we've seen that before so
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that's it for the ocz ssds here in their Booth don't forget to subscribe to lus
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Tech tips and I've got more videos coming on CES and cut go so just as a
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quick correction to what I said over there uh the rbo drive original version
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is bootable my bad so anyway let's have a look at this guy right here so I
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showed you the Z Drive R3 already but here we actually have a working sample
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and this is I'm not 100% sure if this is going to be the finalized firmware
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finalized PCB layout all that good stuff
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but this drive is booted it is working
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in a computer remember this is fully trim capable and it features internal
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raid with the Next Generation sand Force controller and here you can actually see
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if you have some context for good for addo benchmarks you can see right here
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we've got uh read speeds uh anywhere
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above anywhere above about 128 wow we're
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seeing up to about 1 Gigabyte per second remember that's not 1 gabit that's 1 gab
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per second read speeds up at the very very highend and even approaching 1 gab
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per second on rights as well so that's
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outstanding one go we got another thing
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to check out here in the ocz suite I'm sorry the lighting is so bad in here
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guys so my cameraman's going to have to get pretty close to show you these
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products so we have a return of the original silencer power supplies from PC
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power cooling so at risk of wrecking their demo I'm going to go ahead and
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pick this up and I'm going to show you guys the back of this unit so it does
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use an 80 mm cooling fan but in order to
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reduce airflow turbulence through the power supply they've actually shifted a
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lot of the components and cooling up to the front of the power supply so that
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right around the fan you don't get that that hissing sound of the air rushing
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around components so that's one of the ways that they've really optimized this
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for silence now these are both 80 plus silver models I'm not actually sure
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which capacities are available other than these two but so far we've got a
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760 watt as well as a 910 Watt and one of the things that really stands out
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about these guys other than the wide variety of connections on them is right
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here these feature a 7year warranty so
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that is pretty outstanding right there next on sort of the other end of the
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spectrum we've got the Zs Series so this is a bit of a replacement for the
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stealth Extreme 2 they've added 80 plus bronze certification we've got a 3-year
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warranty 500 600 and 7 700 wat
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capacities and one thing that they have added on the 700 watt is four dedicated
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PCI E connectors so you can run a modern
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system with dual gpus off of the 700 wat
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Zs Series without any difficulty whatsoever and then this is this is the
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big guns so this is the ZX Series the
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right here I'm holding the 1250 W power supply but there's an 850 W as well as a
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1,000 W version that are also available you can see these feature a fully
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modular interface with dedicated PCI E
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connectors now you can see right here these modular connections are all 8 Pin
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so these are all 6 plus two pin connectors that means you can run three
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gpus regardless of what kind and uh
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you're not going to run out of connectors now a lot of power supplies
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will actually give you a bunch of PCI Express connectors and then they'll give
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you one CPU one and one like combo CPU PCI E1 and then you end you end up with
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like one odd man out so they have not gone that route they have given you two
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dedicated EPS 8 Pin connectors five peripheral connectors and then one full
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24 pin ATX I'm actually going to pick up the lowest wattage one here and I'm
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going to see if we have a comparable uh business end of that one
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so the only thing missing on this guy versus the 1250 wat unit is uh two PCI E
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or 8 Pin connectors and that makes sense cuz this is an 850 W power supply and
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that probably wouldn't be suitable so these guys are all 80 plus gold like I
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said fully modular and they do come with a 5year warranty so thank you for
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checking out my little video about the ocz power supplies and their sweet don't
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