Acquisition Sees Results: OCZ Releases First Solid-State Drive Controller

After more than four months of announcing the acquisition of Indilinx, OCZ today officially released its first Everdrive, a SSD controller product. Naturally, it was Indilinx's credit.

The OCZ Everest controller is developed for high-performance solid-state drives. It is based on a dual-core ARM processor architecture, supports SATA 6Gbps transfer interface, and supports up to eight channels of ONFI 2.0/Toggle 1.0 flash memory interface, supporting 1xnm process SLC, MLC (including Three-layer unit) NAND flash memory chip, the maximum capacity of 1TB, while carrying up to 512MB DDR3-400 as a cache.

Technically, the controller supports TRIM, NCQ, garbage collection, power-down protection, multiple redundant capacity selection, startup acceleration optimization, and more.

As for performance, it only means that continuous reading speeds can be up to 500MB/s. It was previously stated that continuous reading and writing can reach 520MB/s, 410MB/s and 4KB at random 20000 IOPS.

The OCZ Indilinx Everest SSD controller has been handed over to OEMs for verification, but it is not yet known when the specific product will be released.