The all new OCZ Vector - Fast just got even faster!!

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OCZ have just released the all new Vector based on the Indilinx Barefoot 3 controller. There are no official benchmarks as yet however reports are coming in that this is potentially the fastest single SSD to date!

OcUK have arranged to get some samples in and will bring you a full report on our findings shortly! :)


Take a look below at the new product.

Crazy price to most I know but crazy performance hopefully to match! :D




OCZ Vector 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (VTR1-25SAT3-128G) @ £119.99 inc VAT

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The groundbreaking Vector Series delivers an industry-leading solid-state storage solution designed to provide superior user experience and improved application performance.

Advanced suite of NAND flash management keeps your drive at higher sustained performance over the long term for maximum endurance.

Excels in both incompressible and compressible data types such as multimedia, encrypted date,.ZIP files and software.

Cutting-edge controller technology delivers maximum performance and delivers unmatched endurance without compression or loss of usable capacity, rated for 20GB/day of host writes for 5 years (typical client workloads)

- Capacity: 128GB
- Controller: Indilinx Barefoot 3
- Maximum Read: 550MB/sec
- Maximum Write: 400MB/sec
- Max I/O Per Second (IOPS): 95000 IOPS (4KB File)
- NAND Flash: Multi-Level Cell (MLC)
- Interface: SATA 6GB/s
- TRIM Support (Requires Windows 7)
- Warranty: 5 Years

Only £119.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW







OCZ Vector 256GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive VTR1-25SAT3-256G @ £227.99 inc VAT

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The groundbreaking Vector Series delivers an industry-leading solid-state storage solution designed to provide superior user experience and improved application performance.

Advanced suite of NAND flash management keeps your drive at higher sustained performance over the long term for maximum endurance.

Excels in both incompressible and compressible data types such as multimedia, encrypted date,.ZIP files and software.

Cutting-edge controller technology delivers maximum performance and delivers unmatched endurance without compression or loss of usable capacity, rated for 20GB/day of host writes for 5 years (typical client workloads)

- Capacity: 256GB
- Controller: Indilinx Barefoot 3
- Maximum Read: 550MB/sec
- Maximum Write: 530MB/sec
- Max I/O Per Second (IOPS): 100000 IOPS (4KB File)
- NAND Flash: Multi-Level Cell (MLC)
- Interface: SATA 6GB/s
- TRIM Support (Requires Windows 7)
- Warranty: 5 Years

Only £227.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW







OCZ Vector 512GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive VTR1-25SAT3-512G @ £455.99 inc VAT

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The groundbreaking Vector Series delivers an industry-leading solid-state storage solution designed to provide superior user experience and improved application performance.

Advanced suite of NAND flash management keeps your drive at higher sustained performance over the long term for maximum endurance.

Excels in both incompressible and compressible data types such as multimedia, encrypted date,.ZIP files and software.

Cutting-edge controller technology delivers maximum performance and delivers unmatched endurance without compression or loss of usable capacity, rated for 20GB/day of host writes for 5 years (typical client workloads)

- Capacity: 512GB
- Controller: Indilinx Barefoot 3
- Maximum Read: 550MB/sec
- Maximum Write: 530MB/sec
- Max I/O Per Second (IOPS): 100000 IOPS (4KB File)
- NAND Flash: Multi-Level Cell (MLC)
- Interface: SATA 6GB/s
- TRIM Support (Requires Windows 7)
- Warranty: 5 Years

Only £455.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW
 
Got any idea how this performs against the Samsung 840 Pro? Most are beaten by that so im leaning to that SSD but if this is faster i may lean to it :D

*edit* - When i say ideas, i honestly mean speculations, i understand you wrote no benchmarks as of yet :)
 
the ocz vertex 4
- Up to 560 MB/s Sequential Reads
- Up to 510 MB/s Sequential Writes

the ocz vector
Maximum Read: 550MB/sec
Maximum Write: 530MB/sec

so a 10 mb/sec slower read and 20mb/s faster write all for £96 extra, hmm cant see these doing too well over a vertex 4, or is this just me
 
Dirk said:
The Samsungs may not be a good buy atm:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2282016
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yeh is a little worrying but reading a bit on the ones that failed were pre-sale samples with beta firmware and no retail ones have the same firmware or have failed.

personally i think that makes them reviews a bit pointless, its testing something that isnt actually sold, hope to see some updated reviews on retail ><
 
Hi,

I thought folks would like to see how a Vector 256GB performs as a boot drive under Windows 8 in my Dell XPS 17 (I7 2670QM) laptop -

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Impressive for a laptop don't you think.

The new mantra from OCZ is 'reliability', 'reliability', 'reliability'...

I have been involved in the last phase of pre-release testing as an external beta tester for OCZ for several weeks - I think we tested everything but washing the dishes.

Regds, JR
 
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Hi wazza,

Is your bench run a laptop? (where typically all the cpu power saving features are locked on, to preserve battery life). Also, note that my bench is as a boot drive under Win 8 and to me it seems that Win 8 is benching a little slower.

Here's a bench run on my Z77 platform, with Vector running as a spare under Win 7 (I should also mention that this is with the CPU running at 5100MHz and RAM at 2400MHz..)

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Now in comparison to your bench it is not so clear that the Sammy is faster. Though I feel it is true to say that both the Sammy and the Vector are mighty fast and fighting for pole position.

Regds, JR
 
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that looks better,the samsung does have ever so slightly faster read speeds,but theres very little in it atm

its worth noting that the 840 pro 256gb is cheaper,lets hope competition with the vector helps lower prices as they are a little high right now,it was on a z77 desktop
 
the read was twice as fast at 0.5-2.0 file size on the laptop but write twice as slow
doesnt make much sense, something is up there
worth trying a different benchmark i dont think id trust just 1 of atto

whats the vector like to use everyday? boot up n stuff, im jealous you got one early :)
 
Mei said:
the read was twice as fast at 0.5-2.0 file size on the laptop but write twice as slow
doesnt make much sense, something is up there
worth trying a different benchmark i dont think id trust just 1 of atto

whats the vector like to use everyday? boot up n stuff, im jealous you got one early :)
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Hi Mei,

Yes, Atto can be a bit hit and miss, especially at the small end.

Here's a couple of Anvil benches (my personal favourite):

laptop -

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Z77 -

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The Vector is very snappy, boot time under W8 is a revelation. I've owned many SSDs (mainly OCZ) and the Vector is by far the best I've ever experienced - a joy.

Regds, JR
 
Hi,

Some benchmarks for 2 x Vector 256GB in R0, as a spare in my Z77 rig.

Environment is optimised for benching (e.g. CPU at 5100MHz, RAM at 2400MHz, speedstep and Cstates disabled etc.., streamlined OS)

Intel RST 11.2, stripe 64K

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Pushing 1GB/s is fun :D

Regds, JR
 
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