OCZ Vertex SSD

phinix · 13 Feb 2009 at 21:00

me too, one 60GB if the price goes down...

Talrinys · 14 Feb 2009 at 10:15

Arcane said:
Great sounding news with regards to the Vertex's controller and speed/price.

Yes it sounds really really good, also great to see a new company entering the market like that, extremely promising.

phinix · 14 Feb 2009 at 10:40

Question: what would be the best image software for those SSDs? I read that Acronis can mess up with partition alignment on SSD...

RSR · 14 Feb 2009 at 11:47

Aurhinius said:
Not too shabby for 2 X25 M's

****!

Thats it. Intel drives it is then

Andy

StephenLawUK · 14 Feb 2009 at 13:01

would wait a little bit ive heard intel SSD's are having a price cut soon.

EverybodyelsE · 14 Feb 2009 at 13:13

Great news on the Vertex SSD's! Better performance & lower price...Might go nuts and get a 120gb for boot!!

phinix · 15 Feb 2009 at 10:22

Did you guys see test results of Vertex? Check OCZ forum!
250/240MB speeds are incredible! This is for 120GB version with 64MB cache. Write speeds faster than read!

Jokester · 15 Feb 2009 at 10:29

Got a link?

Talrinys · 15 Feb 2009 at 11:01

Jokester said:
Got a link?

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=51112

DavidB · 15 Feb 2009 at 11:24

phinix said:
Did you guys see test results of Vertex? Check OCZ forum!
250/240MB speeds are incredible! This is for 120GB version with 64MB cache. Write speeds faster than read!

Shame there going to slow it down really.

NickK · 15 Feb 2009 at 12:56

I'm interested in the 120GB space but only once we have some independent testing. Reporting ideal performance tests on non-public firmware which is hardwired for that benchmark, no doubt, is rather stupid. For all I know they could have hardcoded the addressing and disabled wear levelling along with other production features.
I'll wait for the real figures of the normal drive once they're using the production firmware - seen so much marketing crap in this area and so far only Intel have delivered the goods..

Cyber-Mav · 15 Feb 2009 at 14:10

phinix said:
Did you guys see test results of Vertex? Check OCZ forum!
250/240MB speeds are incredible! This is for 120GB version with 64MB cache. Write speeds faster than read!

yes i noticed that on the ATTO benchmark they did, but they forgot to blank out the queue depth level of 10. :rolleyes:

would like them to re-run the bench with a queue depth of 2 and then see how the performance is.

phinix · 15 Feb 2009 at 16:17

DavidB said:
Shame there going to slow it down really.

yes, but they gonna lower it like ~10MB/s less max...

Glaucus · 15 Feb 2009 at 16:33

So will these new ocz controller, get rid of the random read/write lag problem which plagues the rest of the ssd market apart from the lintels?

muon · 15 Feb 2009 at 16:53

When will intel's price cuts show up?

phinix · 15 Feb 2009 at 17:11

AcidHell2 said:
So will these new ocz controller, get rid of the random read/write lag problem which plagues the rest of the ssd market apart from the lintels?

Well, I thought that partition alignment fixed that problem, but yes, I believe Vertex with that cache - 32 or 64MB it will be helpfull. Check APex, it doesn't suffer from that problem, and has only double cache from previous ssds only in Raid...

Glaucus · 15 Feb 2009 at 19:08

phinix said:
Well, I thought that partition alignment fixed that problem,

Got any articles?

drak3 · 15 Feb 2009 at 20:48

Will the on-board raid chip handle 2xVertex in Raid-0 since they added cache now?

phinix · 15 Feb 2009 at 23:27

OCZ forum mentioned that Vertex is best for onboard raid controllers, cause have cache. Apex, core, solid are better with cached raid cards.

LeJimster · 16 Feb 2009 at 00:10

I think I might have to buy one of these 120Gb vertex's if they perform as in these benchmarks. The price will have to drop to significantly though. Not paying over 200 for one of these.