OCZ Announces the Z-Drive m84 PCI-Express SSD

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San Jose, Calif.—October 5, 2009—OCZ Technology Group, Inc., a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory and flash-based storage as an alternative to hard disk drives (HDDs), today announced the Z-Drive m84, a PCI-Express Solid State Drive (SSD) designed to offer the performance of OCZ’s Z-Drive product line to enthusiasts for a more affordable price point and availability in the mainstream market segment versus the enterprise channel. The Z-Drive m84 is the answer to the demand from end-users to have access to this state-of-the-art storage solution.

Full press release: http://www.ocztechnology.com/aboutocz/press/2009/354


There's the E84, P84 and M84: http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/s ... ate_drives

[KTE]

So there's a V84 coming?

Wouldn't it be simple to create a 125GB cut down of that?

I'm assuming these are using the RocketRaid controller... Good branding scheme. Now let's see some in-depth reviews and customer [neutral] usage feedback. I need to see its performance on the AMD platform with a X2.

The M84 has me interested for home (256GB) - perfect capacity for me. I'm a little cautious about the added PCIe latency and its impact.

Good to have a PCIe SSD competitor. Majority of Desktop enthusiasts aren't aware of how many PCIe SSD products there already are in the Enterprise world (nor the brands expect whatever has high PR).

[M_S]

na.. the Rocket RAID is a POS... but I can't comment on technical details here.

It doesn't really make much sense to create a 120 GB solution unless you want to go with a two-drive RAID, but then you give up quite a bit of performance.