OCZ Vertex SSD

The cost of a good RAID controller is over £200. How much is the 80GB intel SSD now after the price drop £275 ? I'd rather go for that or wait to see what the vertex's do.
 
NickK said:
netdps do you work for OCZ? You seem to have lot of easy information.
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Nope lol i do work in the IT sector but have no contacts at OCZ am jsut good at googling and checking there official forums :)

I ahve 3 Vertex's on pre order with OC so am waiting giddily jsut like the rest of you guys.
 
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Those benchmarks are taken from This review over on CD Freaks....

However, although good on a decent (true) hardware RAID card (£200-300) in RAID0, they perform pretty badly in RAID0 on the ICHxR cont...
 
well... we can't expect these new drives to be as cheap as previous, prices are a bit pricey mind, so unless you got a big pocket...

i got myself one of the OCZ Core V2 60gb SATA 2 Solid State Drive, pretty darn speedy loading up and going through the drive, haven't got to fully test yet with problems with gfx card, but i'm eager too, not sure if i would be just aswel with a 10,000rpm HDD, but wrecken their more expensive,
 
i take it providing you dont have a intel ICH7/8/9/10 chipset that the Vertex/Solid/Apex series of SSD's are going to work fine? i.e. no stuttering etc
or is it still problematic because they dont have the cache like the intel ssd's?
 
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The Vertex is the only OCZ drive that "shouldn't" have Stuttering issues, all others still have no cache. so the Vertex should be a comparable drive to the Intels.
Personally unless you have cash to burn, just wait for a few review sites to get hold of these drives and see if the cache truly has cured the issues, One other point, the new vertex drives don't just have cache they also have an entirely different controller - so will be interesting to see if this crops up any new and interesting issues.

Its interesting to see that although adding cache through a hardware raid controller, the Jmicron controller based drives are fine.. why they then needed to change the controller.. not just give the Jmicron controllers cache of their own..

Cheers
ROfu
 
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ROfu said:
Its interesting to see that although adding cache through a hardware raid controller, the Jmicron controller based drives are fine.. why they then needed to change the controller.. not just give the Jmicron controllers cache of their own..

Cheers
ROfu
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I don't think the architecture of the JMicron controller can support more cache than it already does (32KB or 64KB, i can't remember the exact figure). I can only speculate, that is why OCZ needed a new controller for Vertex.
From what i hear, the new controller is much more advanced than the JMicron controller as well.
 
crooked i said:
whats this stuttering with the core series i hear about?
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Those drives tend to stutter during huge multitasking work - it happens when you surf the net, encode movie file, listen to music and play Crysis all at the same time:o:p:D Just a lot on their heads, but as far as I read it can be solved by aligning partition and few more tweaks that OCZ forum suggest.
 
phinix said:
Those drives tend to stutter during huge multitasking work - it happens when you surf the net, encode movie file, listen to music and play Crysis all at the same time:o:p:D Just a lot on their heads, but as far as I read it can be solved by aligning partition and few more tweaks that OCZ forum suggest.
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never had any luck with there tweaks and it stutters when your just on the web no multitasking needed it just locks up
 
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