OCZ has officially revealed its first PCIe SSDs with NVMe support that are able to sequentially read up to 2900 MB/s and perform random reads up to 700k IOPS. The Z-Drive 6000 series is targeted at enterprise usage and will become available in two variants, one with regular MLC and one with the more durable enterprise MLC.
The Z-Drive 6000 is a line of 2.5" SSDs with the PCIe 3.0 x4 interface and support for NVMe. NVM express is the successor of SATA AHCI that provides lower latency and makes optimal usage of the parallelism of solid state memory. The Z-Drive SSDs will be available in a 6000 and 6300 variant with the biggest difference the eMLC and HHHL AIC form-factor of the latter.
Both types SSDs will become available in capacities of 800GB, 1.6TB and 3.2TB. The 19nm Toshiba MLC NAND chips are controlled by a PMC Sierra "Princeton" controller. In the last quarter of this year also a 6.4TB model should become available.
OCZ claims sequential read and write speeds of the 3.2TB model of the 6000 series up to 2900 MB/s and 1900 MB/s respectively. The write speed of the 6300 model is with a maximum of 1400 MB/s a bit lower. Random reads are specified at 700k IOPS.
