OCZ Indilinx Everest Controllers Rebranded Marvell?
It appears that OCZ hasn’t been 100% up front about the manufacture of their supposedly home grown Indilinx Everest SSD controllers. Anandtech has gotten word that they are indeed Marvell controllers, albeit with custom firmware and higher clocks. It’s understandable that OCZ wouldn’t want to advertise this fact and it makes us wonder what actual progress they’ve made on fabricating their own proprietary controller. At the end of the day, the Everest controllers are still very good performers and OCZ has obviously put a lot of time an effort to tweaking them to their liking so no one can say they’ve been ripped off by this masquerade.
Just to clarify, my information says the Everest 1 (Octane, Petrol) is a higher clocked Marvell 88SS9174. The Everest 2 (Vertex 4) could very well be the new Marvell 88SS9187 given its significant performance enhancements. If it is the 9187 that could tell us a lot about just how close OCZ and Marvell are, as the Vertex 4 started shipping less than a month after Marvell announced the new controller.
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