The future of enterprise storage is Here  

This enables both system builders and storage vendors alike to develop different parts of a storage ecosystem to a standard specification with broad interoperability support between storage devices, host platforms and software. NVMe is expected to open new opportunities for faster, better and stronger flash-based storage applications while significantly improving PCIe SSD deployments over the next five years.

As NVMe is an emerging SSD interface specification, OCZ Storage Solutions – A Toshiba Group Company, is an early provider of NVMe-based PCIe solutions with the introduction of its Z-Drive 6000 SSD Series. The series is available in 2.5” and edge card formats supporting multiple terabyte capacities. It yields dramatic boosts in the number of random I/O operations per second that an enterprise system can process and provides significant reductions in latency responses.

In combination with large capacities, dual port capabilities, 2.5” hot-swapping and Half-Height/Half-Length (HHHL) add-in card (AIC) form factors position the Z-Drive 6000 Series as the most versatile for this early class of products.

The Z-Drive 6000 portfolio utilizes NVMe to streamline the storage stack and reduce protocol latency that dramatically boosts performance and efficiency over previous OCZ Z-Drive generations.
PCIe Gen 3 bandwidth allows the Z-Drive 6000 family to achieve leading sustained transfer speeds up to 2.8 GB/s while NVMe efficiency enables the SSDs to read up to 700,000 I/O requests per second and write up to 160,000 operations per second.

The series also delivers consistent and predictable low-latency I/O responses as low as 25 µs for a 4KB write and 80 µs for a 4KB read.

Designed for compute-intensive, analytical, online transactional and cloud-based applications that require high-performance and low-latency I/O responses, the Z-Drive 6000 Series drives massive parallelism and high scalability in the enterprise to meet current and future storage requirements.
OCZ’s enterprise-class Z-Drive 6000 SSD Series are cutting-edge PCIe/NVMe drives with exceptional performance and the lowest latency in its class. The series supports PCIe 3.0 x 4 connectivity with full NVMe 1.1b compliance, and includes in-box operating system (OS) drivers that ensure broad interoperability.

Ideal for any business looking to overhaul or simply improve their data storage systems, the Z-Drive 6000 Series truly represents a new era in enterprise storage.

Additional information on the Z-Drive
6000 SSD Series is available at
www.ocz.com/enterprise
Z-Drive 6000 SSD Series

Z-Drive 6000 SFF Series
(read-intensive workloads):
2.5” FF, Toshiba A19 MLC NAND,
800GB, 1.6TB, 3.2TB usable capacities,
1 DWPD

Z-Drive 6300 SFF Series
(mixed-use workloads):
2.5” FF, Toshiba A19 eMLC NAND,
800GB, 1.6TB, 3.2TB, 6.4TB usable capacities, 3 DWPD

Z-Drive 6300 AIC Series
(mixed-use workloads):
HHHL, Toshiba A19 eMLC NAND,
800GB, 1.6TB, 3.2TB, 6.4TB usable capacities, 3 DWPD

Specification OCZ Z-Drive 6000 OCZ Z-Drive 6300
Intended Application Read-Intensive Mixed-Use
Usable Capacities 800GB / 1.6TB / 3.2TB 800GB / 1.6TB / 3.2TB / 6.4TB1
NAND Flash Toshiba A19 MLC Toshiba A19 eMLC Interface
Interface PCIe 3.0 x 4; NVMe 1.1b PCIe 3.0 x 4; NVMe 1.1b
Form Factor 2.5” x 15mm 2.5” x 15mm; HHHL
Sequential Read (128K blocks) 2200 / 2800 / 2700 MB/s 2000 / 2800 / 2700 MB/s
Sequential Write (128K blocks) 1250 / 1800 / 1700 MB/s 900 / 1500 / 1400 MB/s
Random Read (4K blocks) 575K / 700K / 700K IOPS 565K / 700K / 700K IOPS
Random Write (4K blocks) 115K / 160K / 125K IOPS 90K / 135K / 115K IOPS
Read/Write Latency (4K blocks) 80µs / 25µs 80µs / 30µs
Endurance 1 DWPD 3 DWPD
1 6.4TB to be released late 2015.

Key Features:
The Z-Drive 6000 Series combines PCIe Gen 3 and NVMe 1.1b technologies with an extensive feature-set and robust endurance and reliability capabilities that offers many enterprise benefits as follows:

Feature Description
Dual Port Support Enables two host systems to concurrently access the same Z-Drive 6000 SSD and typically used for
data redundancy. If one of the data paths becomes compromised, the available data path continues
operation as if no failure had occurred without loss in Quality of Service (QoS).
Hot Swap Support Enables ultimate serviceability by no longer requiring that a server (or node) be taken offline to
service the SSD, but instead supports simply pulling the 2.5” SSD out of the server chassis without
any downtime.
AIC Form Factor Support Enables OEMs and system integrators to populate servers where a Full-Height/Half-Length SSD
would not fit (such as a Z-Drive 4500 SSD) or where SFF-8639 storage bays are not available.
8TB Capacity Support Represents OCZ’s largest capacity PCIe SSD to date and enables large storage-intensive workloads
and applications.
End-to-End Data Protection Includes host / drive appended DIF, ECC and CRC support delivering redundancy checks for
transmitted read/write errors initiated by the host, and compares sent data to received data for
superior data protection and reliability.
Power Loss Protection Ensures that all in-flight write operations complete at the moment of a power loss so data will not be
lost during the event.
Selectable Power Envelopes Supports variable power modes of 25W, 20W or 15W enabling power consumption to be pre-set to
reduce wasted power when maximum performance is not required.
Intelligent Power Throttling Maximizes IOPS per Watt at any power level by monitoring each Z-Drive 6000 SSD’s power
consumption in real-time and only throttling performance in situations that require more power than
allotted.
Temperature Sensing Monitors SSD temperature in real-time so that consistent operating conditions are met and the
SSD can continue functioning through adverse temperature extremes.
Intelligent Thermal Throttling Improves thermal performance in harsh environments by throttling the NAND flash well within
operating temperature thresholds and intelligently adjusts performance to meet the requirements of a
given environment.
Unique Flow-Thru Case Design Enables more airflow to critical components maintaining a cooler Z-Drive 6000 SSD, a more stable,
cooler environment, and reduced TOC.