OCZ has announced a new member of its enterprise solid state drives lineup, the next-generation Intrepid 3000 series SATA 6Gbps SSD. According to OCZ, the new Intrepid 3000 series will deliver industry's best sustained performance and consistent I/O responses.

The new Intrepid 3000 series is based on the new Everest 2 platform, which is a combination of Marvell 88SS9187 controller with OCZ's proprietary firmware and should oofer advanced flash management and endurance capabilities that extend NAND flash life and enhance drive reliability.

The new OCZ Intrepid 3000 series features a an advanced suite of endurance and reliability tools that should provide enterprise-class endurance, reliability and data integrity which is important in data centers.

The list of tools and features include:

- Strong multi-level BCH error correction coding (ECC) that effectively corrects errors up to 85 bits per 2Kb of data while significantly reducing the uncorrectable bit error rate (UBER);
- End-to-end data path protection that performs data integrity checks at every juncture where data is transmitted, received, processed and stored ensuring that corrupted data is detected and not propagated;
- In-flight data protection that prevents data loss in the event of a sudden power failure guaranteeing that the in-progress write operations complete and data is properly stored in SSD flash;
- Internal SSD RAID redundancy provides additional safeguards to supplement traditional ECC algorithms, and further reduce uncorrectable bit error rates;
- Lower write amplification by concatenating multiple write requests from the host while minimizing wasteful copy back operations of unaffected data sectors;
- 256-bit AES encryption compliance for data security (encrypting data in large 256-bit key sizes); and
- Additional flash management techniques such as dynamic and static wear-leveling, background garbage collection, TRIM support and system/storage monitoring via Self-Monitoring Analysis & Reporting Technology (SMART).

Based on standard 2.5-inch form factor, the new Intrepid 3000 series will be available in two configurations, as Intrepid 3600 and Intrepid 3800. The Intrepid 3600 model features cost-effective MLC NAND flash while the Intrepid 3800 model will be based on high-endurance enterprise MLC (eMLC) NAND chips. Both models should be available as of Q1 2014 in 100 GB, 200 GB, 400 GB and 800 GB capacities and backed by five years of warranty.





Source: OCZ.com/enterprise