OCZ Technology, well known for its Solid State Drive products, has launched its Agility 4 series featuring OCZ's flagship Indilinx Everest 2 controller as introduced in its Vertex 4 range. The Agility 4 features SATA3 connectivity, Asynchronous MLC NAND, a dual-core controller, automatic 256-bit AES data encryption and its Ndurance 2.0 technology to extend the NAND flash life without relying on data compression, claiming enterprise-grade endurance and reliability with a 2 million hour MTBF rating.
The Agility 4 range features up to 400MB/s read and write performance with a random 4K read IOPS rating of up to 58,000 IOPS and a write IOPS rating of up to 85,000 IOPS and have up to 1GB of DRAM Cache, all depending on the model capacity. OCZ claims this range to double the transactional performance in typical use case scenarios over its first generation Everst controller platform. Unlike the Agility 3 series, the performance is not affected by data compressibility and thus maintains these ratings even with incompressible data.
The Agility 4 range comes in a capacity choice of 64GB, 128GB, 256GB and 512GB and are backed by a 3-year warranty.
If this range performs much the same as the Vertex 4 apart from being capped at 400MB/s, this would be a better choice for those who have to rely on a PCIe x1 controller for SATA3 connectivity due to the bandwidth of a PCIe x1 v2.0 also peaking around 400MB/s. At present, all consumer SATA3 PCIe controllers including the hybrid SATA3/USB3 PCIe x4 cards have the SATA3 chipset connected by a single PCIe x1 lane.
Further info and full specifications can be found on the OCZ website..
