OCZ made very great ssds and its been one of the top brands in the SSD market. They made really great ssds as vertex SSDs. Today we take a look at OCZ Octane series SSD. OCZ Octane 512GB SSD.While all this was taking place OCZ agreed to purchase South Korea-based NAND flash controller maker Indilinx for $32 million back in March. The Octane series is their first SSD line to use the newly acquired company's controller technology since then, but OCZ has previously said they will continue to rely on third-party partners for some of their products.The new “Everest” controller boasts read and write performance of 520–410MB/s which is competitive with today’s high-end SATA 6Gb/s SSD’s. The OCZ Octane series was actually announced back in October of 2011 and was said to include 128GB, 256GB, 512GB and 1TB models, though today the 1TB model is still missing from the line-up.Early this year, on January 23rd, OCZ announced a new firmware update for the Octane series that dramatically improved performance. Now known as the v1.13 firmware, it effectively doubled the random write IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second) performance. This was great news for existing Octane owners as it meant they could receive a significant performance increase for free.This further bolstered the strength of the Octane series, helping to improve their appeal when compared to the SandForce driven Vertex 3 series. Not only are the Octane SSDs very fast but they are also extremely stable and suffer from no known bugs. For almost half a year this is something owners of second generation SandForce SSDs such as the Vertex 3 and Agility 3 could only dream of.Although the SandForce BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) firmware bug appears to have been squashed, the fact that it plagued owners of SF-2200 powered SSDs for so long would have undoubtedly left a bad taste in their mouths. Built around OCZ's Indilinx Everest 8 channel NAND controller, the Octane has a total of 16 25nm Micron asynchronous MLC NAND modules on the PCB, 8 on each side. The controller has an onboard 512MB cache, with a DRAM module on each side of the PCB. Specifications for the 512GB Octane vary with the firmware version. With the release firmware offering higher read and write speeds, but with the latest firmware the improvements have been targeted at the 4K random workloads. This drive with the release firmware has read speeds of up to 535MB/s and writes of 400MB/s. The Everest controller is labeled IDX300M01. It offers TRIM support, AES Encryption, Proprietary NDurance technology to level the wear cycles, Boot time optimization, and SMART support.Specifications:
Available in 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB capacities
Interface: SATA 6Gbps / Backwards Compatible 3Gbps
512MB Onboard Cache
Indilinx Infused™
TRIM Support
Background Garbage Collection Support
Boot Time Reduction Optimization
AES and Automatic Encryption
SMART Support
Proprietary Indilinx Ndurance™ Technology
Low-Latency Seek Time: 0.06ms Read; 0.09ms Write
Slim 2.5" Design
99.8 (L) x 69.63 (W) x 9.3 mm (H)
Lightweight: 83g
Operating Temp: 0°C ~ 70°C
Ambient Temp: 0°C ~ 55°C
Storage Temp: -45°C ~ +85°C
Low Power Consumption: 1.98W active,1.15W standby
Shock Resistant up to 1500G
RAID Support
MTBF: 1,250,000 hours
3-Year Warranty
Compatible with Windows XP, Vista, 7 (32/64 bit), Linux, Mac OSX
512 GB Max Performance
Max Read: up to 480MB/s
Max Write: up to 330MB/s
Random Write 4KB: 26,000 IOPS
Random Read 4KB: 35,000 IOP
Though the 512GB OCZ Octane is unquestionably a serious, powerful product, that’s buoyed by good boot times and consistent performance across data types, there are faster overall drives to be found.So lets take a look at BenchMarks Result....
- INDILINX Controller.
- 3 Year Warranty.
- NDurance™ Technology.
- Decent Performance.
- Enough Space for storage.
- Expensive.
