Storage space for our gadgets is becoming larger as manufacturers see us storing more and more information in electronic form. For PCs the solution for this has been the traditional hard drives. And with the way they are constructed with moving parts they are prone to failure. Not only that, with the larger size holding more information, getting access to that information takes longer. Solid State Drives look to replace these drives with the company OZC recently launching their range of PCI-e cards.
This range of card is called a Z-card and to fit them you just plug them straight into the PCI-e slot in your machine. Performance wise the 250GB model has a read speed of 450MB/s and a write speed of 300MB/s. A 510MB/s read speed and 480MB/s write speed is boasted by the 500GB drive and the 1TB drive has a read speed of 500MB/s and write speed of 470MB/s.
The cards are set in a configuration of 256GB MLC NAND drives and have a built in 256MB cache to add to the speed. Unfortunately the cost is still too prohibitive for the average user with figures being quoted at over £2500 for the 1TB card. However as the prices come down these will become the norm and improve the performance of our PCs.