OCZ Displays ZD-SQL Accelerator and Vector PCIe SSD – ceBIT 2013 Germany Update

Things got off to a great start at ceBIT 2013 in Hanover, Germany, this morning with a visit to the OCZ booth and meet with an old friend and former contributor of the SSD Review.  Our escape from the cold Canadian climate was definitely looking up with highs of 13Deg Celsius already this morning.

Our first look goes to OCZ’s unveiling of the new ZD-SQL Accelerator which is based on the OCZ Z-Drive PCIe SSD framework with an integrated and optimized software solution.  The ZD addresses SQL database server applications to ensure the data is readily available on SSD flash when the server needs it.

The ZD is as close to ‘plug and play’ as one can get and also contains ‘implementation wizards’ to guide DBAs so they can optimally manage data cached to the flash. As it is based on the Z-Drive which we had reviewed previously, incredibly high IO performance is a given when accessing data.

OCZ VECTOR PCIE SSD DEMONSTRATED

Of interest to the consumer is the soon to be released OCZ Vector PCIe SSD which was also on display.  The Vector PCIe SSD will be available in capacities of 240, 480 and 960GB, contains 2 x Indilinx Barefoot 3 controllers and speaks to performance up to 1GB/s transfer speeds and 140,000 IOPS.

Perhaps the highlight of what ‘Codename Pegasus’ can do comes to its ability to fly through the transfer of highly incompressible data, this being the bread and butter of those in the media world.  Initial benchmarks on AS SSD displayed high sequential writes performance of 883MB/s, low 4k random write results of 110MB/s and a high Total score of 1701.  Given the right price point, this could be an amazing add on to any desktop.

Last but not least, it was great to meet up with an old friend and former contributor here at TSSDR, Wayne Eisenburg, who is now OCZ Senior VP Global Sales.  Although Wayne has authored a few articles to our site, perhaps the most poignant was that on ‘Examining The SSD Industry – Benefits of Owning The Fab‘

While OCZ hasn’t the benefit of owning the Fab, OCZ has definitely stepped in the right direction enlisting Wayne by their side.

About the Author

Les Tokar is a technology nut and Founder of The SSD Review. His early work includes the first consumer SSD review along with MS Vista, Win 7 and SSD Optimization Guides. Les is fortunate to, not only evaluate and provide opinion on consumer and enterprise solid state storage but also, travel the world in search of new technologies and great friendships. Google+