too many OCZ drives

[sybaris]

Can anyone give me a quick and simple explanation to the differences with the new OCZ vertex 3 SSDs.

I've seen Vertex 3 Agility, a plain vertex 3 and a vertex 3 solid (in red).

Talk about making it confusing

 

[neallnufc]

i,m intrested also, looking to buy but aint a clue what to get

 

[Predicament]

The SSD Relapse: Understanding and Choosing the Best SSD - OCZ Gets Clever: Agility vs. Vertex, Even Cheaper Indilinx SSDs

Just some performance numbers:
OCZ Agility 7.1 MB/s 4KB Random Write
OCZ Vertex 7.6 MB/s 4KB Random Write

Vertex gives you a 7% advantage.. which really is not much.

This is the Vertex II vs Agility II it appears

More research gives me this:

The OCZ Agility 3 arrives in three capacities: 60 GB, 120 GB and 240 GB. The drives offer read speeds up to 525 MB/s across the board, write speeds up to 475 MB/s on the 60 GB version and write speeds up to 500 MB/s on the 120 GB and 240 GB models. Both the 60 GB and 120 GB drives feature a random write 4KB (aligned) of 50,000 IOPS and the 240 GB performs slightly lower at 45,000 IOPS.

ZoomThe OCZ Solid 3 arrives in only two capacities: 60 GB and 120 GB. The performance of these drives are slightly lower than the Agility 3 line, providing read speeds up to 500 MB/s, write speeds up to 450 MB/s, and a random write 4KB (aligned) of 20,000 IOPS. But like the Agility 3 line, the Solid 3 drives feature a 2.5-inch form factor, a seek time of 0.1ms, RAID support, native TRIM support and a MTBF of 2 million hours.

 

[panyan]

The SSD Relapse: Understanding and Choosing the Best SSD - OCZ Gets Clever: Agility vs. Vertex, Even Cheaper Indilinx SSDs

very interesting, thanks

 

[sybaris]

What about the OCZ solids?

 

[neallnufc]

thank you , things are starting to make a little more sense...still a way to go before i know what the best drive to get