SSD Controller
Indilinx Everest 2
Indilinx SATA III (6 Gb/s) 1 drive in database
The Indilinx Everest 2 is the controller used in the OCZ Vertex 4, launched in 2012. It delivered competitive performance under OCZ's firmware, but independent analysis, most prominently by AnandTech, revealed that the Everest 2 is based on Marvell silicon running a custom Indilinx/OCZ firmware stack rather than a wholly original Indilinx design. This distinction mattered because much of the Vertex 4's behaviour, including its write acceleration scheme, was firmware-driven on top of Marvell's underlying architecture.
The Vertex 4 was OCZ's last flagship before the company shifted to the Barefoot 3 for the Vector series, which was a fully in-house design following the Indilinx acquisition.
