Ocz Technology 60gb Vertex 2
November 12, 2011 by Alexandre
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The durability of the Vertex, produced with light-weight alloy housing and no relocating sections helps make it more powerful than your typical challenging drives. This design provides the Vertex SSD (Strong State Drive) two times as extensive a everyday living than your older HHD made with smaller pieces. With no transferring pieces, it decreases warmth of the OCZ Vertex which runs with an working temperature of -10C to +70C and a storage area network temperature of -55C to +140C.
Also the small vitality power consumption, at two watts although operating and .5 watts in stand by your OCZ Vertex will preserve on power consumption. It also arrives with a 2 12 months warranty. Your credit will play a factor in whether you are approved or declined for the loan.
Muy buen post. En verdad los discos SSD terminaran imponiendose en el mercado y reemplazaran a los tradicionales de disco magnetico. Hoy por hoy el precio es muy elevado( latinoamerica); mas bien exhorbitantes.
A causa de la diferencia de la moneda local con el dolar. De todos modos, desde China se esta produciendo discos SSD de 16Gb a u$s28. En mi caso he importado via Dealextreme.com una de estas unidades y la uso como disco C:. He configurado mi XP para que la carpeta Mis Documentos, archivos temporales, archivo swap, backups y utilitarios se traslade a D: (disco WD 500Gb). Mientras que los juegos quedan instalados en E: (un RAID 0 de dos discos de 120Gb c/u). La lectograbadora de DVD es IDE, pues los 4 puertos SATA estan ocupados. Creo entonces que podemos utilizar esta nueva tecnologia y combinarla con las clasicas de una manera optima. Read more on Ocz Technology 60gb Vertex 2
Ocz Neural Impulse Actuator
November 10, 2011 by Alexandre
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“I just killed with my mind,” Padawan learner Norman Chan uttered, mouth agape. That’s the same response I had, word for word, less than five minutes after I slipped the Neural Impulse Actuator on my head, did some basic calibration, and leapt right into Unreal Tournament 3. “Astonishing” isn’t the word for it.
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The NIA makes those things possible thanks to a headband with three diamond-shaped sensors positioned at the front. According to OCZ Technology Development Director Michael Schuette’s article on the subject, the sensors are made of a plastic injected with highly conductive nanofibers, which the NIA hardware uses to read electrical potentials from the user’s forehead. OCZ built the remainder of the headband out of soft rubber, with a lanyard at the back to allow for adjustment.
A cable runs down the left side of the headband and plugs into the black NIA box, which includes two completely separate circuits: one hooked up to the headband and the other hooked up to the host PC’s USB port. The two circuits only talk to each other through an optical transceiver, ensuring that users won’t get electrical shocks if things go awry. . Read more on Ocz Neural Impulse Actuator
Here’s an interesting product from OCZ that seemed to be overlooked at CeBIT and I’m extremely surprised to say the least. For one thing the eye candy alone should have had extensive coverage. It sounds to be a lot like Emotiv’s Epoc project regarding sensory gaming.
Videogame controllers could use an update. The joystick is more than 30 years old’ancient by high-tech standards. And the gamepad is just a few mini-joysticks melted together with a couple of extra buttons.
And let’s not even get started on the mouse and keyboard; they’re the de facto PC game controllers, but they’re a little slow on the trigger. It’s been starting to seemed like cool cyberpunk technology would never get here, but OCZ Technology Group announced it has begun mass production of the Neural Impulse Actuator’the first commercially available brain-computer interface designed specifically for gamers.
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It’s spooky, it might even be a little scary… but recently OCZ developed a new product that monitors your brain and facial muscle activity. Increased activity measured on several spots on your head will result in very small electrical currents.
When the current is high enough, you could consider it as 1 or “Enable”. When there’s a lack of that small current (or below a baseline) you could consider it to be 0 or “disabled”. Now when you accumulate enough monitors… you can write a piece of software that will interpret that data (0 or 1) and assign functions to it, similar to extra buttons on your joystick, keyboard or mouse. Read more on Ocz Neural Impulse Actuator
At the heart of the belt is a Funnel IO Arduino clone from Sparkfun Electronics. This excellent piece of hardware has a built-in XBee socket, USB power, and a LiPO charge circuit built in. Its my board of choice for new designs.
This Arduino sucked in all the sensor readings, and transmitted them via serial XBee to my Powerbook. I used an XBee Adapter Kit from Ladyada to interface XBee to the computer. Note, if you’re trying this at home, do not follow Ladyada’s instructions to program a Funnel IO over XBee (at least on OSX.) Instead, use the configurator tool that comes with Funnel IO. Read more on Ocz Neural Impulse Actuator
Ocz Ssd Drives
November 8, 2011 by Alexandre
Filed under Ocz technology
thanks for your post. i tried what you wrote. i downloaded ubuntu, burned to CD and booted my macbook pro from the cd.
I would like to see on this blog.. Latest news updates and product updates. Friendly/easy to use firmware updates, with rollback procedure if something goes wrong.
Also expert guided assistance in case it’s needed. Or to consider in some future SSD’s, some switch or jumper for restoring SSD to factory settings. Monthly coupons for SSD products with 20-30% discounts with partners/retailers all over the world. Publishing the best support forum articles on the blog Easy to use support system for user problems. Easy to use web interface, so that users can easily open and manage their tasks and communication with OCZ. Loyalty program: for registred users of OCZ ‘s products, to have discount when purchasing new generation OCZ SSD drive. It would be nice for every generation of OCZ SSD drive to have detailed specification on one sheet (lets say A4 letter) with details on controller type, cache, and other detailed specifications. Read more on Ocz Ssd Drives
So after all this above let’s look at the current situation. According to Yahoo Finance, 19.7% of OCZ’s float is held short as of March 31, 2011. It is highly probable this short interest has increased significantly in the past 2 trading days in the after-math of Copperfield Research’s OCZ report by short-term term traders who haven’t done any in-depth research on the truth behind Copperfield Research’s misleading innuendo and claims.
Do the shorts really know the fantastic fundamentals of OCZ’s ‘best in class’ SSD products, how big demand is, and how fast Vertex 3 is selling out. I doubt it. Read more on Ocz Ssd Drives
OCZ could likely have achieved greater speed with its new SSDs if they were SLC-based, but in so doing it might have priced the Drives out of reach for the average consumer. Since the new Vertex series is meant to offer premium performance, as OCZ already offers mid- and entry-range SSDs, OCZ has gone another route to ensure that the new Vertex series is of particular premium performance. The Vertex series includes up to a 64 MB on-board cache, which OCZ claims to help offer ” faster transfers and superior overall system response times in a broad range of applications and games.” The 30 GB and 60 GB Vertex SSDs only come with a 32 MB cache, however.
Ocz Drives
November 6, 2011 by Alexandre
Filed under Ocz technology
After months of end user complaints, SandForce has finally duplicated, verified and provided a fix for the infamous BSOD/disconnect issue that affected SF-2200 based SSDs. The root cause is a bug in the firmware, although specifics are pretty slim. The typically sparse release notes just state a rare condition resulting in a blue screen error has now been addressed.
OCZ has been testing the fix in-house for the past three weeks and now believes it is fit for public release. SandForce is simultaneously releasing the firmware to its partners, so if you have non-Ocz Drives you should contact your drive manufacturer for an availability update.
Both Octane Drives use the Everest controller chip which has dual ARM cores. Both Drives have 512MB of DRAM cache, TRIM and NCQ support and support AES and automatic encryption. The Indilinx controller features NDurance technology which is designed to increase the lifespan of the NAND flash.
OCZ has been testing in its secret labs this update for the last three weeks and believes it is ready for public distribution. At the same time, SandForce is sending the firmware to their partners (Corsair, G. Skill, etc.), so if you do not have an OCZ drive, you should contact your manufacturer to download your hard drive firmware update (2.15 for Ocz Drives, and 3.3.2 for drives using SandForce nomenclature).
If you have an SSD with the SandForce SF-2000 controller, you’ve probably had issues with blue screens of death because of the drive. All sorts of SSDs use this controller, such as the Kingston HyperX as well as OCZ’s Agility. The blue screens were caused by a firmware error, which is now fixed for Ocz Drives.”We highly recommend that any customers that have experienced the BSOD issue update their firmware to 2.15.
Ocz Vertex 3 Ssd
November 4, 2011 by Alexandre
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The first test we tried was a startup time test on the MacBook Pro. For the record, it’s a 2011 MacBook Pro with a 2.2 Ghz Core i7 and 8GB of RAM running Mac OS X Lion. From the moment the power button was pressed, the computer took 22.7 seconds to load up to my login screen and an additional 2.4 seconds to load the programs that were open before shutting down.
My startup programs included: iCal, Outlook, iTunes, Word, Calculator, Excel, Firefox, PowerPoint, Activity Monitor, and Skype. It took the computer just under 25 seconds to simultaneously open Final Cut X, Motion 5, Adobe Photoshop CS5, iMovie, iPhoto, Photobooth, and Parallels.
This RSS feed will (or should) only ever feature just 1 item ‘ the latest version information for the firmware. So, it won’t handle keeping track of history, but if you (or I) add the feed to something like Google Reader, that will keep track of changes to the RSS feed for us/me. So, when the target page on OCZ’s site changes its version information, the feed will update, and Google Reader knows automagically. Read more on Ocz Vertex 3 Ssd
For the most part SSDs are comprised of two primary components, the SSD controller and the flash that stores data. Both of these components have changed greatly over the last four years. Last year SandForce debuted its first consumer SSD controller, the SF-1200 and with it came new technology that fueled a revolution.
The SF-1200 was based on an enterprise controller that allowed manufactures to reduce the overall component costs by eliminating expensive cache modules and enabled low cost Multi-Level Cell (MLC) flash to perform at levels previously reserved for more expensive Single Level Cell (SLC) flash devices. The MLC based SandForce SF-1200 products quickly reached the SATA II (3G) limits of 285MB/s and turned the storage world upside down. Read more on Ocz Vertex 3 Ssd
As a PC gamer, one of the most difficult things to do is constantly research and buy your next hardware upgrade. Whether it be for your spanking new rig that you’re building for next year’s graphical behemoths, or your current system which you’re looking to bring to today’s standards, PC hardware can be a tricky thing; and, at times, even fairly expensive. We usually want the best performance for as little money as possible.
After all, we want to make sure that what we purchase future-proof’s our systems for a while before having to reach into our savings and punch our bank accounts in the face with a hefty buy. And with today’s constantly evolving hardware, new technology tends to be dramatically more expensive than what we have become accustomed to. Some might contemplate whether or not spending an extra couple of dollars is even worth the upgrade at some points.
Ocz Vertex Ex
October 26, 2011 by Alexandre
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OCZ may not have created the Solid State Drive, but they’ve done more to bring SSD technology mainstream than any other company in the entire industry. Once SSDs could finally outperform their HDD counterpart, the discussion became all about price and capacity. The OCZ Core Series helped to offer affordable Solid State Drive technology to the masses, but capacity and stuttering became new issues.
Adding up to 64MB of Elpida DRAM to the buffer has permanently solved stuttering problems, making raw performance the last bottleneck. An Indilinx ‘Barefoot’ internal controller commands the bank of Samsung K9HCG08U1M DRAM modules, allowing the OCZ Vertex Series SSD to offer an impressive capacity with unmatched performance. Benchmark Reviews tests the reaction time and bandwidth performance for the Vertex EX SLC SSD against over two dozen other products in this article. .
‘The advantages of SSD’s over traditional hard disc drives including performance, reliability, no cooling requirements, and lower power consumption, are all highly beneficial to enterprise applications and enthusiast consumers looking for the ultimate storage solution,’ said Alex Mei, CMO of the OCZ Technology Group. ‘The new Ocz Vertex Ex is designed to deliver unparalleled performance and reliability, featuring the latest-generation architecture and SATA interface utilizing single-level cell NAND flash memory for unmatched overall system responsiveness and stability for enterprise grade server solutions.’.
Aus dem Hause OCZ werden in den kommenden Tagen die neuen SSD Festplatten der Vertex 2 Pro und Vertex 2 EX Serie in den Handel kommen. Die neuen Modelle erscheinen alle im 2.5-Zoll Format und werden mit einem SandForce SF-1500 Controller ausgestattet sein. Beide Modellreihen bieten auerdem eine ECC Sicherung, Support fr TRIM und maximale Datenbertragungsgeschwindigkeiten von bis zu 285MB pro Sekunde beim lesen und bis zu 275MB pro Sekunde beim schreiben von Daten.
OCZ Technology heeft nieuwe firmware uitgebracht voor de solid state drives uit de Vertex-, Agility-, Vertex Turbo-, Vertex EX- en Solid 2-series. Het bijwerken van de firmware kan alleen als de drive niet de systeemschijf is onder Windows. Voor gebruikerservaringen met deze en andere ssd’s kun je op ons eigen GoT-forum terecht, waar het grote ssd-topic deel 9 heeft bereikt.
OCZ continues to expand its reach to all areas of computing interests and system preferences by going beyond the enthusiast PC to professional server and workstations. Building on the advantages of SLC flash-based storage, the OCZ Vertex Series EX is the result of the latest breakthroughs in SSD technology, delivering incredible performance that translates to professional-class data storage enthusiasts have come to expect from OCZ’s premium Solid State Drive offerings. These next-generation drives feature speeds up to a 260MB/s read and 210MB/s, while delivering lowered power consumption, increased responsiveness and data access, and superior durability compared to conventional hard drives.
Initally available in capacities of 60GB and 120GB, Vertex EX offers ample room to create the ideal storage array for all your data.
OCZ Technology has unveiled the Octane SATA 3.0 and Octane-S2 SATA 2.0 SSD series.
According to OCZ, the new SSDs are based on a next-generation controller called Indilinx Everest that offers better balance between capacity, physical size, and performance compared with previous controllers.
OCZ claims the new SSDs deliver up to 560MBps throughput speed and 45,000 IOPS with the SATA 3.0 version (or 275MBps in the SATA 2.0 version) and is optimized for all file types and …
Ocz Ssd Performance
October 18, 2011 by Alexandre
Filed under Ocz technology
The TRIM command is available on Windows 7 and Server 2008 RS, and is now becoming available on modern Linux distributions such as Ubuntu. If the operating system you are currently using does not support the TRIM command, there are quite a few utilities that can help you in achieving what the TRIM command does. However, these are not automatic like the TRIM command and you will have to run them regularly for ensuring high a performing SSD HDD.
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These utilities are written and released by the individual manufacturers of SSD drives. The most popular utility is wiper.exe which supports SSD HDD drives based on Indilinx controller. As far as the other way round is concerned, most SSD drives support the TRIM command without the user having to do anything. A few older SSD HDD drives might need a firmware for this.
Consumers may see a discrepancy between reported capacity and actual capacity; the storage industry standard is to display capacity in decimal. However, the operating system usually calculates capacity in binary format, causing traditional HDD and SSD to show a lower capacity in Windows. In the case of SSDs, some of the capacity is reserved for formatting and redundancy for wear leveling.



