OCZ Technology is back with its new Vector series solid state drive, the first product line powered by the company’s own Indilinx Barefoot 3 controller. The new Vector SSD comes in a super slim 7mm form factor that fits even the slim Ultrabook computers, and gets a sleek alloy housing. It uses SATA III interface and is equipped with OCZ’s in-house powerful controller and optimized firmware to deliver enhanced performance and reliability. The new Barefoot 3 architecture is in fact OCZ Technology’s first controller silicon and firmware designed completely in-house from start

    OCZ Technology releases the Octane series solid state drive powered by Indilinx Everest SSD controller. The line includes the SATA 3.0-based Octane and the SATA 2.0-based Octane-S2. The Octane series is boosed by Indilinx Everest platform with dual-core CPU and up to 512MB DRAM cache. The 2.5-inch Octane offers up to 560MB/s read and 400MB/s write speeds with 45,000 random read 4K IOPS performance, while the Octane-S2 delivers 275MB/s read and 265MB/s write speeds and 30,000 random read 4K IOPS performance. They are available in 128GB, 256GB, 512GB and 1TB capacities.

OCZ Technology announced the new Silencer Mk III series professional power supply designed to offer industrial-grade performance and stability for demanding computing environments. The Mk III features the company’s first modular design and provides high efficiency and quiet operation. The Silencer Mk III features 100% Japanese 105°C capacitors and heavy-duty protection circuitries. It has a Power Single +12V rail and comes with a 120mm variable RPM for silent and cool operation. The power supply offers 80 Plus Bronze-level efficiency up to 85% at typical loads. The OCZ

OCZ launches the Petrol series solid state drive based on Indilinx Everest platform. The new series “enables further adoption of SSDs in cost-sensitive applications, while taking advantage of real world performance and complete feature set of the Indilinx Everest platform.” The 2.5-inch Petrol series comes in 64GB, 128GB, 256GB and 512GB capacities and use SATA III interface for enhanced performance. It provides up to 370MB/s read speed, 250MB/s write speed and up to 34,000 IOPS 4K random read performance. The MLC-based SSD includes NDurance Technology for longer life span

  OCZ Technology expands its PCI Express solid state drive lineup with the new RevoDrive 3 Max IOPS and RevoDrive 3 X2 Max, supporting workstation users that require greater transactional throughput and bandwidth. The RevoDrive 3 Max IOPS abd X2 Max IOPS combine PCI Express architecture and OCZ proprietary Virtualized Controller Architecture (VCA) 2.0 flash virtualization layer with premium MLC NAND flash components to deliver exceptional 4KB random write performance of up to 140,000 IOPS and 245,000 IOPS, respecitvely. The former provides up to 1025MB/s read and 950MB/s write

OCZ Technology announced the Talos series Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) SSDs designed for enterprise applications. Based on MLC NAND flash, the Talos is an ultra-fast, high-capacity solution with Virtualized Controller Architecture (VCA) technology, which provides customers with robust enterprise features including TRIM (SCSI unmap with SAS drives), SMART monitoring, native command queuing (NCQ), tagged command queuing (TCQ), power fail management, and wear-leveling; all within a single streamlined solution. There are Talos C and Talos R models, which are available in 230GB, 480GB,

OCZ Technology is bringing two new series of affordable solid state drives, the Agility 3, successor to the Agility 2, and the Solid 3. These 2.5-inch SSDs use SandForce SF-2200 controller and support SATA 6Gbps interface. The former offers up to 525MB/s read, 500MB/s write, up to 60,000 4KB random-write IOPS, while the latter provides 500MB/s read, 450MB/s write, and 20,000 4KB random-write IOPS. The Agility 3 is available in 60GB ($135), 120GB ($240) and 240GB ($480) capacities and the Solid 3 comes in 60GB ($130) and 120GB ($230). [CNET]

OCZ Technology introduces its newest PCI-Express SSD, the VeloDrive designed and optimized to meet the needs of small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), enterprise clients and system integrators. The VeloDrive uses PCI-Express 2.0 interface and comes with a X8 slot low profile with full height bracket form factor. Based on MLC NAND flash, OCZ VeloDrive is available in 300GB, 600GB and 1.2TB capacities and gets four SandForce SF-1565 SSD processors. It is equipped with onboard RAID controller and can be run in either hardware or software RAID modes. Models: VD-HHPX8-300G –