OCZ Storage Solutions Z-Drive 4500 1 TB Internal Solid State Drive

It's storage that evolves with your ever-changing data center. More than just a high-performing SSD, the new Z-Drive 4500 is a full-featured flash solution that integrates robust performance, reliability, data protection, and monitoring functions for critical enterprise applications and demanding big data environments. Z-Drive 4500 also includes the latest software features to deliver low-latency flash resources across your infrastructure, and OCZ's proprietary Virtualized Controller Architecture (VCA) Technology coupled with proven controller technology enables industry-leading sustained performance. As OCZ's most advanced PCIe edge card to date, Z-Drive 4500 offers a complete acceleration, caching, and flash management solution for your enterprise storage applications.

The Pinnacle of Storage Performance

• Delivers the performance of hundreds of hard disk drives in a single server
• Reduces I/O and bandwidth bottlenecks with
  • sustained read performance up to 2,900 MB/s
  • sustained write performance up to 2,200 MB/s
  • random 4K block read throughput up to 252,000 IOPS
  • random 4K block write throughput up to 76,000 IOPS

Proprietary Virtualized Controller Architecture™ (VCA) 2.0

• Provides a multifaceted virtualization layer that interfaces with the host system
• Extends NAND flash life at a block level
• Manages redundancy
• Enables TRIM Command support and SMART health monitoring
• Features internal storage controller delivering highly efficient performance aggregation while reducing the burden on host resources

• Power loss data protection prevents data loss in the event of a sudden power failure
• End-to-end data protection performs data integrity checks at every juncture where data is transmitted, received, processed and stored
• Advanced ECC effectively corrects up to 55 bits per 512-byte sector
• Advanced security with 128-bit AES encryption support
• Temperature sensing and thermal throttling maintains consistent operating conditions even under adverse temperature variances

• Z-Drive 4500 is integrated with OCZ's new Windows Accelerator (WXL) Software - a flash management and caching solution for Windows Server-based applications
• Enables efficient use of the Z-Drive 4500 as a flash volume, a flash cache, or both concurrently
• Performs statistical 'out-of-band' processing to selectively determine what data to cache for I/O acceleration while avoiding processing in the data path itself
• Includes advanced cache warm-up and analysis scheduler for optimal flash usage
• Improves performance and latency on SAN and DAS systems making them more available for other applications

• Z-Drive 4500 works in conjunction with OCZ's VXL Virtualization Software to optimized virtualized environments by ensuring critical data is available on flash for use by VMs
• Distributes flash resources on-demand across VMs to accelerate application performance by
  • Making sure no VM inefficiently occupies flash when it could be better used elsewhere in the environment
  • Utilizing Z-Drive 4500's flash cache optimally at all times regardless of how many VMs are running concurrently
  • Reduces data traffic to and from the SAN
• Delivers a SAN-less software-defined storage system