HP ZTurbo

The HP Z Turbo Drive features a PCIe connected SSD, which enables performance levels greater than 1 Gbps. This performance is available at a price that is at parity with today's comparable SATA SSDs. This will enable the highest price/performance ratio for client grade SSDs.The HP Z Turbo Drive will be supported on desktop platforms of HP Z workstations. It will support storage configurations as a boot device and as a data device. The performance gains are significant when connecting to the PCIe bus. The sequential read and write performance is roughly twice as fast as today's SATA SSD products.The HP Z Turbo Drive is supported on all current desktop workstation platforms. It is also supported by current offering of operating systems, and does not require a separate driver. It does require a BIOS update for any system shipped prior to the Z Turbo Drive launch. A maximum of 2 Z Turbo Drives can be shipped with platforms from the factory, and it can be configured with additional hard drives, both SATA and SAS.