OCZ has not officially announced its new OCZ Vector 180 SSD yet, but the new member of the Vector fabily of SSDs appeared at Computex. The Vector 180 is actually a high-end consumer SSD in the 2.5-inch form-factor, with SATA 6 Gb/s interface.

It uses an OCZ-Indilinx Barefoot 3 M00 series processor, LPDDR3 cache, and a power-outage mitigating logic. The latter means that When the SSD senses a power-outage, it finishes all outstanding read/write operations under power from of a capacitor bank, and goes to an idle mode in order to prevent data loss.

The Vector 180 SSD uses Toshiba's 19nm Toggle 2 MLC flash and will come in capacities of up to 960 GB. Performance figures include sequential transfer rates of up to 550 MB/s, and 4K random access throughput of up to 100,000 IOPS.