Solid State Hard Drives (SSD)
The speed of any computer system is determined by the slowest part (the "weakest link") of the system. One of the slowest steps in your system is the physical transfer of data to and from the hard drive. This transfer requires that data be "written" and "read," which is a mechanical process (in contrast, data moves throughout your computers electronically, at close to the speed of light). The writing and reading from a hard disk slows down even further when there are many users on one system. At times the system may slow to a crawl, or worse, create a long cue of data waiting to be processed, which leads to a crash.
New solid state hard drives (SSD) have appeared on the market with the capability to move information electronically rather than physically. Praxis runs dramatically faster on these solid state drives.
We recommend the following SSDs to Praxis users:
Kingston SSDNow KC100 Specifications:
- Form factor 2.5-inch
- Interface SATA Rev. 3.0 (6Gb/s)
- Intel 25nm Synchonous MLC NAND
- LSI SandForce SF-2281 Controller
- Capacities
120GB
SATA 6.0Gb/s - 555MB/s read, 510MB/s write
Sustained 4K Performance - 20,000/60,000 IOPS
Max 4K Performance - 90,000/70,000 IOPS
240GB
SATA 6.0Gb/s - 555MB/s read, 510MB/s write
Sustained 4K Performance - 20,000/60,000 IOPS
Max 4K Performance - 90,000/60,000 IOPS
Formatted Capacity - 224GB
480GB
SATA 6.0Gb/s - 540MB/s read, 450MB/s write
Sustained 4K Performance - 60,000/45,000 IOPS
Max 4K Performance - 77,000/45,000 IOPS - Warranty/support five-year warranty with free 24/7 support
- Enterprise SMART Tools Reliability Tracking, Usage Statistics, Life Remaining, Wear Leveling, Temperature,
- Drive Life Protection
- Power Consumption 0.455 W (TYP) Idle / 1.6 W (TYP) Read / 2.05 W (TYP) Write
- Dimensions 69.85mm x 100mm x 9.5mm
- Storage temperatures 40 - 85 C
- Operating temperatures 0 - 70 C
- Vibration operating 2.17G
- Vibration non-operating 20G
- MTBF 1,000,000 Hrs
- Three Year Warranty
OCZ solid state hard drives are the fastest drives available for your practice.
The OCZ Z-Drive R4 Series represents a turning point in the evolution of PCIe attached solid state storage by merging the best feature sets of both the pure hardware and pure software based approaches to data management. Designed and manufactured for a wide range of enterprise environments including cloud computing and data centers, the Z-Drive R4 features OCZ's Virtualized Controller Architecture (VCA) 2.0, providing the utmost in performance, flexibility, durability and enhanced reliability, allowing data centers to rely on a PCIe-based SSD as their primary tier one storage solution for the first time. Additionally, the Z-Drive R4's level of concentrated performance enables system architects to design more productive infrastructures while lowering operating costs associated with hard drive technology.
- Maximum bandwidth potential
- Linear performance scaling with added lanes
- More IOPS per pin than any other bus
- Layered architecture for increased adaptability
- Ease of use with hot-swap and hot-plug
- Can decrease physical footprints
- High transactional performance
- Enables higher capacities up to 3.2TB
Contact Praxis Support for more information about upgrading your practice to OCZ hard drives.