OCZ Technology 60 GB Vertex 2 Series SATA II 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive (SSD) OCZSSD22VTXE60G
- NAND Flash Components: Multi-Level (MLC) NAND Flash Memory, Interface: Sata 3.0Gbp/s, Form Factor: 2.5 inch slim design
- Life Expectancy: 2 million hours Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF), Reliability: ECC: 27 bytes of redundancy per 512 bytes of data
- OS Compatability: Windows XP 32/64 bit, Windows Vista 32/64 bit, Windows 7 32/64 bit, Linux, Certifications: RoHS, CE, FCC
- Max Read: up to 285 MB/s, Max Write: up to 275 MB/s, Sustained Write: up to 250 MB/s, 4k Random Write (Aligned): 50,000 IOPS, Seek Time: 0.1ms
- Power Consumption: Idle: 0.5 Watts, Active: 2 Watts, Performance Optimization: TRIM (requires OS support)
Based on a cutting-edge new architecture, Vertex 2 Solid State Drives deliver unprecedented performance while maintaining an affordable storage solution for early adopters looking to update their systems with the latest technology. OCZ designed the Vertex 2 to excel in both sequential and random read/write rates to take your PC or notebook productivity to the next level, featuring superb 4k random writes up to 50,000 IOPS to give a performance edge over the previous generation. Using the latest
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Fastest Drive out there! OCZ Rocks!!,
I did many many hours researching SSD’s before deciding on this one. The Controller is one of the newer ones out there (Sanforce) and I believe the controller plays a huge role in Speeds of these SSD’s.
One of the things I looked at was Benchmarking this drive.
ATTO Benchmark was the Standard for Drive Benchmarking that I researched, so that is what I used.
Read about setup to tweaking. Found an brilliant tweaking guide on Tweak Town on SSD’s.
With the claimed 4k Random Write (Aligned): 50,000 IOPS being so much more than the others at 10,000 IOPS, I reckon makes a huge difference.
Another thing (rumor possibly) I found out is that Sanforce makes the Firmware quicker for OCZ than all the rest, at least at at the time being that is, maybe sometime in the future all the other Sanforce 1200 SSD’s will get the quicker firmware too?
OCZ’s Claimed speeds are: Read 285 MB/s, Write: up to 275 MB/s, Sustained Write: up to 250 MB/s.
My ATTO Benchmark score default setting was about 280 MBs Read and 270 MBs Write. Pluse or Minus 2 MBs.
System Specs are:
Asus PK5 Premium, Intel Quad Core 3.1GHZ, 4GB OCZ Reaper DDR2, 1000 Watt Enermax Power Supply, EVGA Nvidia 470, Creative X-Fi Pro, Windows 7 64bit.
Ok I have to say this is my first Desktop SSD.
I am so thrilled with the blazing quick speed!! It’s all I can reckon about!
This was for my Game PC.
So I got to have another one for my wife’s PC. OH and another to run Raid 0 for my Game system, and one more for my main Windows 7 System!
Once you experience the speed of these quick SSD’s you never want to use a slow HHD again!
It’s like 56K vs Fiber Optics! Serious!
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|Quick but you better backup your data, it’s gonna die,
I bought this drive due to the specs on speed and an overall feeling that OCZ is quality based on memory buys, but this experience has soured my views on OCZ. I have had this drive RMA two times now, the first issue I had was the drive would not past POST on my Gigabyte EP45 motherboard with AHCI enabled, yet my Kingston SSD would POST just fine. I followed techs suggestion to upgrade to the latest firmware etc. it didn’t fix the problem. After weeks of haggling back and forth, I RMA through Amazon (Thank goodness) the replacement drive had the same model number, yet the plate on the bottom was a different make and it had a much newer firmware than what was on the OCZ web site. Low and behold, this drive would POST with AHCI enabled, so I installed my OS and had been using the drive for about a month. It was 11PM, tired, so I place my system into suspend like I normally do, then work up at 4AM and took the machine out of suspend, then Win7 went to blue screen (oh no, that’s not excellent), so I powered off, back on to boot, NOTHING! the drive was no longer recognized (dead). I tried the drive on two other systems, in an external USB case, nothing, it’s gone. Fantastic, so I have been going back and forth again with OCZ tech, they are treating me like I did something incorrect, I don’t know what I am doing etc. Based on the poor quality and horrible support, I will never buy another OCZ SSD again.
Also, google OCZ vertex 2 and drives dying, this seems to be happening a lot. I’m just saying, do some research before you place your data at risk, oh yeah, backup your data daily!
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|speeds for newer drives are not the same as those advertised,
I just bought this drive new from amazon and noticed slightly lower benchmarks than those advertised (max sustained write speed 217MB/s, max read speed 240 MB/s, with ATTO benchmark). After doing some research I believe there are really three “generations” of this same drive, and I received a third gen drive.
The first gen. was screaming quick, using 32nm chips, the second gen. used larger size 25nm chips, and ran very slowly and had less available storage. The third gen. is medium quick, using smaller 25nm size chips, but more of them.
The second gen. drives are really liable for an RMA from OCZ because they didn’t have as much disk space as advertised.
The third gen. is what I believe is currently being sold now. Unfortunately it is about 20% slower than the first gen. in most crystaldiskmark benchmarks, and 50% slower in at least one (the 4K QD32 test–i.e. it doesn’t handle noncompressed data as well).
That being said, it’s still reasonably speedy, but fake advertising from OCZ will never win my heart, so 2 stars.
My numbers for ATTO are a bit lower than the specs, too (and that’s what they’re supposed to use to produce their advertised benchmarks), so it’s a wonder that OCZ hasn’t revised the specs. Poor showing I’d say.
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