OCZ Vertex 120GB MLC SSD Review

jmke · 13th May 2009, 11:48

The claimed throughput of 250 MByte/second reading and 180 MByte/second writing can't be reached in case of sequential reading only by a small margin but in case of sequential writing we saw with 216 MByte/second values far beyond what is claimed. The best thing about the OCZ Vertex 120 GByte SSD with 64 MByte cache is the fact that also the throughput with small block is increased. When it comes down to reading 4 KByte blocks randomly it is even faster than an Intel X25-M drive. In case of writing is way faster than conventional hard drive and all the JMicron SSD but still not as quick as the Intel derivates. This definitely is a step into the right direction and we hope that OCZ together with Indilinx further upgrades their firmware so that in the future we can expect even more performance out of these drives.

http://www.ocaholic.ch/xoops/html/mo...l_lang=english

jmke · 13th May 2009, 11:49

their testing method is golden, if you know how to read the results;
they don't provide enough result analysis on each page to convey to the reader what the numbers mean

13th May 2009, 18:22

a graph would be have been nice too.

13th May 2009, 11:48	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,022	OCZ Vertex 120GB MLC SSD Review The claimed throughput of 250 MByte/second reading and 180 MByte/second writing can't be reached in case of sequential reading only by a small margin but in case of sequential writing we saw with 216 MByte/second values far beyond what is claimed. The best thing about the OCZ Vertex 120 GByte SSD with 64 MByte cache is the fact that also the throughput with small block is increased. When it comes down to reading 4 KByte blocks randomly it is even faster than an Intel X25-M drive. In case of writing is way faster than conventional hard drive and all the JMicron SSD but still not as quick as the Intel derivates. This definitely is a step into the right direction and we hope that OCZ together with Indilinx further upgrades their firmware so that in the future we can expect even more performance out of these drives. http://www.ocaholic.ch/xoops/html/mo...l_lang=english __________________

13th May 2009, 11:49	#2
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,022	their testing method is golden, if you know how to read the results; they don't provide enough result analysis on each page to convey to the reader what the numbers mean __________________

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13th May 2009, 18:22	#3
wutske Posts: n/a	a graph would be have been nice too.