OCZ Intrepid 3700 SSD Series released

OCZ brand unveils its Intrepid 3700 SSD, which provides up to 1920GB of space and boasts great endurance.

While it has just started marketing a SSD Vector 180 2.5-inch introduced at CES 2015 and for the general public, the OCZ brand took the opportunity to formalize a 2.5-inch SSD Intrepid 3700 which addresses the professional market with large capacities.

The OCZ Intrepid 3700 SSD comes in effect in 240GB and 480GB capacities, but especially in capacity of 960GB and 1920GB. Equipped with Everest 2 memory controller developed in-house and a flash memory of 19-nanometer NAND provided by Toshiba, which manages the division of OCZ SSD, it announced peaks at 470 MB/s sequential write, 540 MB/s sequential read, 13,000 IOPS 4K random write and 91,000 IOPS 4K random read. The performance obviously varies with capacity to another.

Intended for use in areas such as online archiving, video on demand or streaming, OCZ Intrepid 3700 also highlights its smooth energy consumption (Intrepid 3000 family remains below 4 Watts) for its electrical worries prevention mechanism, the error correction mechanism and high endurance (the Intrepid 3000 family lets consider between 1 and 4 complete rewrites per day for five years).

Information regarding the distribution were not disclosed for now.