OCZ VERTEX 96GB SOLID STATE ARRIVING TUESDAY

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Got a great price on OCZ's new 96GB offering at only £1.92 per/GB:

OCZ Vertex 96GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-1VTX96G) @ £184.99 inc VAT

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The OCZ Vertex Series is the industry-leading flash-based storage solution, delivering the performance and reliability of SSDs at a lower price per gigabyte than other high speed offerings currently on the market. The OCZ Vertex Series is the result of all the latest breakthroughs in SSD technology, including the first model on the market to use the Indilinx Barefoot controller, blazing read/write speeds, and 64MB of onboard cache.

- Capacity: 96GB
- Maximum Read: 240MB/sec
- Maximum Write: 170MB/sec
- Sustained Write: 100MB/sec
- Max I/O Per Second (IOPS): 17000 IOPS (4KB File)
- NAND Flash: Multi-Level Cell (MLC)
- Interface: SATA-II
- TRIM Support (Requires Windows 7)
- Warranty: 3 Years

Only £184.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW
 
Looks nice! OCZ seem to be one of the major SSD players nowadays

P.S On the latest news bit, the 2 links for it go to the 'Ultima Exces' page :p
 
daz.rathbone said:
Sorry if it's a dumb question, but would you explain that? Currently I have the Intel and was looking at this.

Specs indicate it performs better - writes for example seem more than double the Intel. Read speeds look comparable - ~220MB/s is what I'm getting on my X25-M. What am I missing?

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4KB write performance is about 4x faster on the Intel drives.
 
Just looking at the bt reviews, showing what you said, 4x faster write speeds on the x25-m random 4k, but with the 120GB OCZ model, so not sure what (if anything) has changed.

Sorry, was not meaning to doubt you, just nice to try and find out the facts :)

Conversely, however, in the same review's conclusion:
"Although the Vertex is, admittedly, not as fast as the X25-M in terms of random write speed, it trumps it by being able to deliver consistently solid results elsewhere. In comparison, the X25-M suffers from performance degradation as data is re-written, causing performance to fall sharply when we repeated tests, a problem completely absent from the Vertex which completed the random write test over twenty times without any sign of a performance dip."
 
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daz.rathbone said:
Just looking at the bt reviews, showing what you said, 4x faster write speeds on the x25-m random 4k, but with the 120GB OCZ model, so not sure what (if anything) has changed.

Sorry, was not meaning to doubt you, just nice to try and find out the facts :)

Conversely, however, in the same review's conclusion:
"Although the Vertex is, admittedly, not as fast as the X25-M in terms of random write speed, it trumps it by being able to deliver consistently solid results elsewhere. In comparison, the X25-M suffers from performance degradation as data is re-written, causing performance to fall sharply when we repeated tests, a problem completely absent from the Vertex which completed the random write test over twenty times without any sign of a performance dip."
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Was that a review of the G2 with TRIM support? Because with TRIM that sort of thing shouldn't happen, can't say I've noticed it happening on my drive.
 
Any reviews on this particular disk from OCZ?
Price/disk capacity relation is very good when compared to Intel X-25 80GB, if the performance is similar it's a great catch.
 
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