Hardware OCZ Announces Vertex Turbo Series, Extends Warranty on All Vertex and Summit SSDs

From DailyTech: Solid State Drives (SSDs) using NAND flash modules have many advantages over traditional mechanical hard disk drives. They can offer improved battery life, greater durability, shorter boot times, and much faster response times because they no longer require the use of spinning magnetic disks.

OCZ Technology has been very successful with their popular Vertex series of SSDs. Other companies have tried to emulate its good fortune, but have had to compete with lower prices than OCZ, which has been able to maintain a price premium

One of the keys to OCZ's success has been the Barefoot flash controller from Korean flash controller specialist Indilinx. Barefoot chips are affordable and offer superb random write speeds, something that most other controllers are lacking.

The company has been very aggressive in marketing the Vertex brand. It previously unveiled a Mac Edition, and entered into the enterprise market with the Vertex EX using Single Level Cell (SLC) chips to challenge mighty Intel.

OCZ also recently launched the Agility series which also uses the Barefoot controller from Indilinx, although with lower speed flash in order to cut costs. They chose not to use the Vertex name in order to avoid diluting their branding.

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