OCZ Vertex Owners Thread - Test Results

b|gf|sh · 1 Apr 2009 at 20:21

jrwagh333 said:
b|gf|sh is that a single drive?

Yeh just a single 30GB drive.

Just plugged into my old rig to format/align and run a quick atto bench, will run another bench once installed in my new rig later on...

Sambuka1989 · 1 Apr 2009 at 20:47

Must resist....urge to order.....sweet...ssd....drives......vertex....argh....... :mad:

Ghost-Reaper · 1 Apr 2009 at 23:03

Yeah I'm on the verge of getting one too, really tempted to put one in the laptop too...

FaceplantSi · 2 Apr 2009 at 20:20

Good looking benchie there b|gf|sh - On your new rig will it be on the same ICH9R chipset?

b|gf|sh · 2 Apr 2009 at 20:25

FaceplantSi said:
Good looking benchie there b|gf|sh - On your new rig will it be on the same ICH9R chipset?

New mobo is an Asus P5N7A-VM (nVidia 730i).

Just finished installing windows on the new rig, and here's a quick bench (with the OS installed on the drive this time though):

Ducky Spud · 12 Apr 2009 at 23:22

Makes RAID 0 and 2 or 3 30GB Vertex drives look a pretty good deal!! Runs so much faster its unreal! Now if only I had a spare £300+ haha

1kiwi · 13 Apr 2009 at 16:26

Thanks all for the early benchies. Considering the limits of sata2 atm prob best to go with 2 X 60GB. Best price i can see is £167 per drive making 120GB raid 0 setup look rather inviting as a OS + Apps + Games drive.

Ninja Please! · 13 Apr 2009 at 18:32

I ordered mine on the 10th, should be in tomorrow, and hopefully have the new firmware with it. I just got a single 60gb. Later I will get another for raid but as far as I understand it can I just plug only this drive in my rig, load vista64 in recovery and align my drive, then just restart and install my os or am I missing a big step here. I have read the guides and still have a little confusion.

FaceplantSi · 13 Apr 2009 at 19:24

Ninja Please! said:
I ordered mine on the 10th, should be in tomorrow, and hopefully have the new firmware with it. I just got a single 60gb. Later I will get another for raid but as far as I understand it can I just plug only this drive in my rig, load vista64 in recovery and align my drive, then just restart and install my os or am I missing a big step here. I have read the guides and still have a little confusion.

You might want to check the firmware version first, when you plug it in go into BIOS and you should see it detected as "OCZ _Vertex xxxx" where xxxx is the version number. If it's 1199 then it needs flashing first. There are instructions on the OCZ Forums here.

Ducky Spud · 13 Apr 2009 at 19:56

FaceplantSi said:
Just got 2 x 30Gb Vertex today. Flashed to 1275 (came as 1199's).

Installed and running Vista 64 as RAID 0 with a 128k stripe. All tweaks applied (as per other posts here and at OCZ forums).

Gotta say I'm mighty impressed so far... almost wish I'd shelled out for a third drive to get the extra space

Bit of a blip in the middle here tho, not quite sure why yet but gonna see if there are any further tweaks / driver updates to go yet.

quoting an old post i know, but how has he managed to get read/write speeds over 300MB/sec? Thought the max for SATA 2 was 300?

1kiwi · 13 Apr 2009 at 20:08

That's per SATA channel so basically 300 per drive. Only an issue if you own an Intel extreme drive.

Ducky Spud · 13 Apr 2009 at 20:40

ahh yea, that makes sense now! Was thinking it was in total! Its obviously only got one cable to each drive though.

Sorry for my dunce moment haha

Ninja Please! · 13 Apr 2009 at 20:43

Firmware 1.0 is available and is it me or does it look really easy to flash the vertex to this new firmware?

1kiwi · 14 Apr 2009 at 12:52

Hope so ^^ Talking to my GF last night and managed to convince her to condone buying 3 30GB drives !! Should be a nice improvment over a single 16mb raptor.

FaceplantSi · 14 Apr 2009 at 16:07

Ducky Spud said:
quoting an old post i know, but how has he managed to get read/write speeds over 300MB/sec? Thought the max for SATA 2 was 300?

If you look further on where I added a third drive my speed got to over 600Mb/s - truly blistering performance!

I'm still running firmware 1275 atm as I can't take advantage of the TRIM command yet as am running Vista - thought I'd let others go first and tbh I haven't seen to many user reports of Firmware 1.0 yet, so gonna stick with this for a while longer.

Fire Wizard · 14 Apr 2009 at 16:32

Thanks to all those that have shared their results with us.

I am also looking to get a Solid State Drive but unfortunately, the ones I'm after, Intel X25-M Mainstream 80GB or OCZ Vertex Series 120GB are currently out of stock. I was also looking at the OCZ Vertex Series 60GB but from having a read around, it would appear that it's slightly slower than its bigger brother.

Why is the 120gb vertex faster than the other ones?

In real life situations though, what sort of performance drop are we looking at?

FaceplantSi · 14 Apr 2009 at 17:22

Fire Wizard said:
In real life situations though, what sort of performance drop are we looking at?

Tbh prob not much - or at least prob not much that is noticeable to us mere humans other than in synthetic benchtest scenarios. I for one would like to see a 'real world' benching method that we all could use as a standard to measure against - as in Anandtech's SSD Anthology where he uses his own measures rather than the synthetic bench tests that manufacturers quote ad nauseam.

It would be most enlightening!

1kiwi · 14 Apr 2009 at 17:45

Fire Wizard said:
In real life situations though, what sort of performance drop are we looking at?

This was outlined in a previous post within this thread. It's nothing to do with the cache as all drives are 64MB. Something to do with more channels which essentially allows the 120GB and above to do more tasks in parallel.

Ninja Please! · 15 Apr 2009 at 18:10

For some reason my Atto doesn't work

Just says cannot find bechtest.tst file or something like that. I'm currently at work so I don't know verbatim what it said. I was up untill like 2am last night tweaking with it. I am very impressed. Blistering fast!

btw-what defraggers are you all using?

shaf · 15 Apr 2009 at 18:19

Ninja Please! said:
For some reason my Atto doesn't work Just says cannot find bechtest.tst file or something like that. I'm currently at work so I don't know verbatim what it said. I was up untill like 2am last night tweaking with it. I am very impressed. Blistering fast!

btw-what defraggers are you all using?

If you are running on Vista then try running it as administrator (Right click -> Run as administrator).