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OCZ Vertex & Summit Solid State Drive Reviews

Patrick "MACMAC" MacMillan

2009-02-23 08:08:07.0


Benchmark Reviews, ITreviewed, and PC Perspective have reviewed/previewed the soon-to-be-available OCZ Summit and Vertex solid state drives.

Here's what they had to say:

  • Benchmark Reviews: OCZ Vertex 120GB SATA SSD:

    "In conclusion, the OCZ Vertex MLC Solid State Drive offers tremendous performance in read and write bandwidth speeds and an exceptional 0.10 ms response time at a attainable price. Second to none (at least until OCZ launches the Summit SSD), the Vertex SSD easily outperforms a RAID-0 set of Western Digital VelociRaptor hard drives. The only drawback is price, which keeps the premium around $4 per gigabyte or storage space. I can recommend the OCZ Vertex to cutting-edge super-users and performance enthusiasts who want unmatched response and speed from their computer system."


    Click here to read the full review.


  • ITreviewed;: OCZ Vertex Solid State Drive:

    "ith its latest high-performance SSD, OCZ has gained momentum in pioneering flash storage technology while maintaining a price point that is almost within the reach of consumers. OCZ’s Vertex Series is a premium SSD solution that is designed for consumers that require fast, rugged, and reliable solid state storage. The Vertex makes use of OCZ’s newest architecture and controller design complete with 64MB of cache to offer faster transfers (blazing 200MB/s read and 160MB/s write speeds) and super overall system response times in a broad range of applications and games. In our tests, the Vertex SSD easily outperformed a RAID-0 set of Western Digital VelociRaptor hard drives!"


    Click here to read the full review.


  • PC Perspective: OCZ Summit Series 250GB SSD Preview:

    "For as long as the Intel X25-M solid state drives have been on the market, we have always had to end all of our other SSD reviews with "pretty good but" conclusions. The advent of a new generation of solid state drives like the OCZ Summit, with new controller logic and the addition of on-board cache memory, is finally giving Intel's mainstream drives some real competition. The performance of the OCZ Summit 250GB SSD is still not besting that of X25-M but it is coming close.

    Where the OCZ Summit really shines in our tests is with write speeds - the addition of 64MB of cache definitely has increased overall write throughput compared to previous Samsung MLC-based designs and are indeed faster than the write speeds on the Intel X25-M. Intel's controller is doing much of the same kind of data shuffling and reorganization that the Summit is doing though without the advantage of on-board memory dedicated to the process."


    Click here to read the full review.


  • PC Perspective: OCZ Vertex Series 120GB SSD Performance Preview:

    "The new OCZ Vertex solid state drive is one of the most impressive SSDs we have tested to date. I know that there is much excitement in the hardware community about this drive and for good reason: it uses a brand new controller from a brand new company and as such performance was an unknown. Many in the community have been billing it as the first true competitor to Intel's X25-M line of mainstream MLC drives and it indeed lives up to that status.

    The Indilinx Barefoot controller, based on a custom logic ARM processor, is doing nothing dramatically different than JMicron or Samsung or even Intel controllers; but it has proved itself to be a strong competitor for a first offering. In my initial preview testing the OCZ Vertex drive offers read speeds just slightly below that of the Intel X25-M 80GB SSD but in most cases has a much faster write speed than the Intel drive thanks in large part to the addition of 64MB of on-drive cache."


    Click here to read the full review.

These newest OCZ SSD models are very, very promising and if they hit the market with a relatively reasonable price tag they will undoubtedly be hot sellers.

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