OCZ Booth Vertex 450 SSD, ZD-XL SQL Accelerator, Fatal1ty New Series PSU - Computex 2013
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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Linus Tech tips coverage of computex 2013 is powered by Western Digital our
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trusted gaming gear partner is Corsair Vengeance and our trusted retail partner
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is nc.com so we're here in the ocz booth at
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computex 2013 now they find themselves in a bit of an interesting position
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where the move toward boards Enterprise Solutions has been underway for a very
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long time but that doesn't mean you can necessarily abandon the consumer either
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so while the vector hasn't been updated this drive's been on the market for
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quite a while there are a couple of new additions to the product line so number
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one is the vertex 450 right here so this
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uses the same IND linkx Barefoot 3 controller as the vector but what it
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adds is the latest 20 nanm n flash so
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basically that gives you a cost savings now the problem right now is that with
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the Nan shortage that has been going on and I know most sort of general
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consumers don't concern themselves with these things but they're very very real
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and very very true unfortunately the pricing you've seen on ctor over the
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last little while and the pricing you're seeing on vertex 450 now in the middle
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of a shortage isn't that different but in the future that should be an
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advantage for the vertex 450 compared to the vector now this one right here is
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definitely not about cost savings this is the vector PCIe so if you're familiar
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with ocz's Revo drive line of products from the past basically it's a PCI
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Express device so it's a PCI e4x interface you've got two indel link
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Barefoot three controllers each with a full SSD on them so this eliminates the
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SATA 3 bottleneck allowing it to achieve up to 1 gab per second as well as
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140,000 iops per second which is much
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more than you can possibly push over a single SATA 3 interface now we're going
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to go around a corner which is going to be very hazardous for the entire team
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moving around here with all these like wires going on so all this stuff on the
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left you've seen before but this guy right here is new now when we were at
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CES we were showing off a software solution that ocz was working on that
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would allow their SSD products to accelerate databases and accelerate
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specific workloads in a very um in a very impactful way this guy right here
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is pretty much where that product is headed so it's a hardware device this is
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the ZD XL SQL accelerator and if you
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don't know what it does then you just have to read the title it implements
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some of the software development that they've done and adds it to what is a
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dedicated device that is designed just for this so pretty much I'm not an
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expert when it comes to SQL databases so the camera's looking at it right now
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read that if none of it means anything to you then you're probably not the
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Target customer but if you do understand all of that then it should be pretty
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darn impressive don't miss any of our computex 2013 coverage don't forget
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techtips not quite sure what happened there but here we are in the ocz booth
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where uh we are actually going to be showing off a couple of new products so
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the fatality series of power supplies has been around for a pretty long time
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at this point but now we have the new fatality Series so they're
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launching a couple of different capacities the 750 watt as well as their
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550 watt these are both fully modular power supplies so if you come around the
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right side here you'll be able to have a look at how there are absolutely no
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cables attached to them unfortunately unlike the fatality 1000 watt we don't
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get the individually sleeved cables that made that particular PSU very very
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impressive but what we do get is an updated feature set so they're 80 plus
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bronze certified as well as having full support for Intel's Haswell fourth
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generation core series processor what that basically means is even at
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extremely low loads they're able to provide stable enough power that the
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processor is able to go down into its C6 and C7 States giving you very very low
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idle power consumption they also come with 5-year warranties and now I think
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we're actually done with without sort of forgetting about anything no that's not
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new