OCZ Beefs Up Solid State Drive Portfolio
Z-Drive R3 and Vertex 3 Pro top long list of new parts.
OCZ brought several new drives to CES, including the half-height PCIe x8 based Z-Drive R3
The real star of OCZ’s display was an experimental 4-way RAID model. Designed to fit a single (half-height) 5.25” bay, added parallelism boosts its maximum transfer rate to 1800 MB/s. OCZ is testing the waters with this design and has not yet decided to produce it.
If the rest of the market can “put up” with “only” 550 MB/s, OCZ might flood that portion with its Vertex 3 Pro. Capacities of up to 512GB will be available in this-year’s release, but OCZ has not announced a “firm” date.
OCZ also wanted everyone to know that several of its most recent power supplies were 80-plus silver rated, with the brand-new PC Power & Cooling Silencer 760W and 910W displayed most proudly.




"In August 2010, the Company announced a strategic optimization of its memory products whereby it discontinued certain unprofitable commodity memory module products with the intent to continue only with certain high-performance memory products. However, since that time, there has been well-chronicled, continued weakness in the global DRAM markets.
Having balanced this DRAM market weakness against the capital needs of the Company's growing SSD products, the board has determined that it is in the best interests of the stockholders to accelerate plans to discontinue its remaining DRAM module products by the end of its current fiscal year of February 28, 2011. Accordingly, our DRAM products are now expected to have minimal, if any, sales in the next fiscal year and beyond."
the problem is they charge crazy prices.
Instead of making drives that no one can afford, why not work on making a SSD that doesn't require trim support.
They may come back with DDR4. Just because they are discontinuing all current modules, they could still be researching new ones. I know I love my OCZ DDR2 water-cooled RAM to death.
Good questions. Slow adoption may have to do with current SSD's not being able to utilize that pipeline, or it could be simply growing pains such as USB 3.0 is experiencing. Many of the reviews I've read for USB 3.0 devices suggests they are not ready for primetime, they seem rushed to market and glitchy.