OCZ Launches Indilinx Everest 2-based Vertex 4 SSD Series

OCZ Technology today introduced the Vertex 4 SATA III SSD series featuring the companys advanced Indilinx Everest 2 controller platform. The Vertex 4 features sequential bandwidth up to 535 MB/s, maximum random performance up to 120,000 IOPS, and with hard to manage incompressible data, delivers 95,000 4K random read IOPS and 85,000 random write IOPS. In comparison to OCZs previous generation Vertex 3 SSD, rated at 60,000 sustained 4K random write IOPS, the Vertex 4 doubles typical transactional performance. The Vertex 4 also generates best in class latency as low as 0.04ms for read operations and 0.02ms for write operations, delivering an improvement of approximately 80 percent over the Vertex 3. In typical use case scenarios, the Vertex 4 outperforms the Vertex 3 by as much as 400 percent. You can read our review on the Vertex 4 256GB and 512GB drives here.