OCZ Octane 512GB SSD Review

It was a year ago when OCZ decided to acquire Indilinx, a major designer and manufacturer of SSD drive controllers, revealing the company’s medium-to-long term business plan to focus a large percentage of their operations on the SSD drives market. Today we are going to examine the fruits of that merger by testing and reviewing the Octane, the first Indilinx-based drive which found its way into our labs after Indilinx was acquired by OCZ.

It was a year ago when OCZ decided to acquire Indilinx, a major designer and manufacturer of SSD drive controllers, revealing the company’s medium-to-long term business plan to focus a large percentage of their operations on the SSD drives market. Today we are going to examine the fruits of that merger by testing and reviewing the Octane, the first Indilinx-based drive which found its way into our labs after Indilinx was acquired by OCZ.

Manufacturer features and specifications

• Available in 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB capacities
• Interface: SATA 6Gbps / Backwards Compatible 3Gbps
• 512MB Onboard Cache
• Indilinx Infused™
• TRIM Support
• Background Garbage Collection Support
• Boot Time Reduction Optimization
• AES and Automatic Encryption
• SMART Support
• Proprietary Indilinx Ndurance™ Technology
• Low-Latency Seek Time: 0.06ms Read; 0.09ms Write
• Slim 2.5" Design
• 99.8 (L) x 69.63 (W) x 9.3 mm (H)
• Lightweight: 83g
• Operating Temp: 0°C ~ 70°C
• Ambient Temp: 0°C ~ 55°C
• Storage Temp: -45°C ~ +85°C
• Low Power Consumption: 1.98W active,1.15W standby
• Shock Resistant up to 1500G
• RAID Support
• MTBF: 1,250,000 hours
• 3-Year Warranty
• Compatible with Windows XP, Vista, 7 (32/64 bit), Linux, Mac OSX

512GB Max Performance

• Max Read: up to 480MB/s
• Max Write: up to 330MB/s
• Random Write 4KB: 26,000 IOPS
• Random Read 4KB: 35,000 IOPS