OCZ launches 16TB flash card

February 15, 2012, 10:34 AM — OCZ Research today released a PCIe NAND flash server card with up to 16TB of capacity, more than five times its predecessor.

The new Z-Drive R4 CloudServ PCIe card is being marketed for cloud computing environments as it can sustain up to 1.2 million I/Os per second and 6.5GBps throughput. OCZ did not release pricing for the card.

"With this new solution, system architects are able to design more efficient and dynamic cloud computing infrastructures during simultaneously reducing system complexity and the high maintenance costs associated with traditional infrastructures," Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ Innovation, said in a statement.

With increasing emphasis on cloud computing and the sheer growth in data, PCIe-based flash storage systems have the ability to bypass traditional storage overhead by cutting out the storage network. Server PCIe cards reduce the space and power traditionally required for storage arrays and allow large data sets to be processed closer to the server CPU.

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