Today we start with a little history lesson, so if you want us to indulge in the distant past, when the consumer SSD was in its relative infancy, it was only a handful of controllers on the market. While the JMicron, Intel, Samsung and Marvell were at that time, in fact, the main players, Intel has gained the most praise and attention from the reviewer community. Nate was first discovered, many of them had problems with the performance in time and TRIMS in the dictionary consumer. It wasn't too long before an upstart named Indilinx appeared and quickly became a favorite of the SSD in the world, although the Intel drive still widely held on the gold standard, so to speak. When the pioneers, OCZ was the first to partner with the Indilinx and launched their extremely popular top line powered by their barefoot controller. OCZ sold tons of these units, and it was really the initiative helped drive consumer to the forefront of the SSD market. It wasn't long before the others joined in and was killed by units of the Indilinx based on the market. SandForce came (from which the OCZ timely) and it seemed that the Indilinx fade away.
Fast forward to March 2011, when it was announced that OCZ Indilinx buys. At the time there were rumors about the interest of OCZ's SandForce was not totally unexpected, but it was still a little surprising. At the time, would come a lot of speculation but OCZ left many under his hat, we all wait and see approach. Finally, this month OCZ announced the latest Indilinx controller known as Everest, which is in their new unit the octane number. They sent us over a 512 GB beast around cool and, frankly, we were beside to see what's cooking, although this article comes from much later than we would like to see due to unforeseen circumstances, so apologies for the management of our readers are waiting.
Octane units actually further two flavours. SATA 6Gbps interface with octane and octane S2 with the SATA 3Gpbs. Former features Orange graphics and synchronous 25nm NAND (faster) and the Commission with a blue themed graphics with asynchronous 25nm NAND (slower). This is probably a wise decision, because still many older double plates and not a fork of the other accounts for performance, which can take advantage of. Each can be purchased in capacity from 128 GB to 1TB of monstrous, which is the first SSD in the form of a factor of 2.5 ", which we are aware of! Prices for 512 GB is expected to be around $ 879.99 you MSRP for the version of the 512 GB and 1TB versions of the price has not yet reported.
OCZ touts octane units as two times the increase in the nominal NAND program/ease of cycles from their nDurance technology. Employing special algorithms for alleviating wear and maintain the performance of long-term stays. Unlike the SandForce controller without compression is employed during the enrollment cycle of performance should be consistent regardless of the type of data that OCZ also points out that the unit is designed for better overall performance on the size of all files, not the small spectrum.
The traditional cardboard packaging box in favor of plastic blister packs and are gone. Fortunately, it's easy to open with the locking tabs on the top. No knives or difficulty. It is included in the warranty booklet and instructions, and known "SSD is faster than your HDD" label. The 2.5 "to 3.5" adapter plate, which is no great problem, due to the fact that many cases now support disks 2,5 "and are relatively cheap to buy. Overall, the external design of the drive is not unlike that of other units of the OCZ offers with the bold graphics, the black plastic shell and polished aluminium piece. Let's see what they did differently inside.
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