There's bits and pieces of news appearing on the net about it, and some of it is wrong. So I thought I'd post up what's known about the drive.
It comes in 30GB, 60GB, 120GB flavours.
Performance for sequential and IOPS/random speeds is roughly 70% of Vertex.
It's made with slower NAND and has an Indilinx controller.
Up until now the Indilinx(OCZ and SuperTalent), new Samsung, and Intel drives are pretty much the only drives that offer performance in all areas that match or exceed the fastest SATA mechanical drives. Other SSD drives are faster or as fast in most aspects, but can fall down badly on random reads/writes. The result is that for us consumers we have to buy a very high performance drive, at a high price... because there's no middle ground.
The Agility closes that middle ground. It will yield exceptional performance at a more affordable price. At 70% of the speed you would not notice the difference in real use between a Vertex and an Agility, unless you were doing the same task over and over, or you benched it.
I don't know what the retail price will be. It will of course be cheaper than the Vertex.
I don't know when retail will be, samples will apparently be arriving very soon. So at a guess I'd say in roughly a month.
It will support OCZ Wiper out of the box, so performance will last on it.
Some FUD that's appeared is that it's an internal RAID SSD. It isn't.
If I was offered the choice between the Vertex and the Agility, I'd personally opt for the Agility to save a few quid. I have the Vertex drives, since they were available at the time I bought...
It comes in 30GB, 60GB, 120GB flavours.
Performance for sequential and IOPS/random speeds is roughly 70% of Vertex.
It's made with slower NAND and has an Indilinx controller.
Up until now the Indilinx(OCZ and SuperTalent), new Samsung, and Intel drives are pretty much the only drives that offer performance in all areas that match or exceed the fastest SATA mechanical drives. Other SSD drives are faster or as fast in most aspects, but can fall down badly on random reads/writes. The result is that for us consumers we have to buy a very high performance drive, at a high price... because there's no middle ground.
The Agility closes that middle ground. It will yield exceptional performance at a more affordable price. At 70% of the speed you would not notice the difference in real use between a Vertex and an Agility, unless you were doing the same task over and over, or you benched it.
I don't know what the retail price will be. It will of course be cheaper than the Vertex.
I don't know when retail will be, samples will apparently be arriving very soon. So at a guess I'd say in roughly a month.
It will support OCZ Wiper out of the box, so performance will last on it.
Some FUD that's appeared is that it's an internal RAID SSD. It isn't.
If I was offered the choice between the Vertex and the Agility, I'd personally opt for the Agility to save a few quid. I have the Vertex drives, since they were available at the time I bought...