Testseek.co.uk have collected 163 expert reviews of the OCZ 2.5 inch ARC 100 Series SATA600 and the average rating is 79%. Scroll down and see all reviews for OCZ 2.5 inch ARC 100 Series SATA600.
September 2014
(79%)
163 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
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191 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
Solid performance
Remains good at steady state
Shield Plus warranty
Competitively priced
Affordable
Reasonable performance
Reasonable endurance
The OCZ ARC 100 series is the most affordable solid-state drive on the market. The drive has good performance and supports encryption
Balanced sequential read and write speeds
Decent IOMeter performance
Affordable price
IOPS is strong
Incompressible and compressible data equally good
Low pricing
Key indicators point to good long term performance
The editors didn't like
Limited encryption support
No cloning software bundle
Eclipsed by other SSDs in most tests
Not as fast as other affordable drives
No accessories in package
The new SSD doesn't come with any accessories or software
It has a short three-year warranty
And its performance ranks behind that of other recently released drives
Faster read speeds available elsewhere
Inconsistent small file performance
Facing stiff competition from the likes of Samsung.
Silky smooth operation as a system drive, Good sequential reading and writing performance at very low queue depths, Excellent 4K random writing performance at low queue depths, Very good 4k random reading performance at very low, and very high queue de
Sequential reading and writing performance isn't the strongest, but then again, this is a budget SSD.
Let us summarise the most important positive and negative points belowPositiveSilky smooth operation as a system drive.Good sequential reading and writing performance at very low queue depths.Excellent 4K random writing performance at low queue depths.Ver...
From a company that previously gave us Vector's, Vertex's and was occasionally high on Octane for Agility we now have the ARC 100, an SSD that sounds like something that would be used to fuse metals together. As a welder the OCZ ARC 100 is pretty useless,...
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Eclipsed by other SSDs in most tests, Not as fast as other affordable drives, No accessories in package
While the ARC 100 isn't the best performing drive money can buy, it's one of the most affordable. In real-world use, such as application loading times and system boot times, you'll only find slim differences between this drive and one that costs a lot mor...
Abstract: While manufacturers have announced larger capacity SSDs (2TB and more), for storing a lot of files, a mechanical HDD is still a much more affordable option. This looks set to change in the future though, as SSD production volume increases lead to lower pr...
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Published: 2014-08-14, Author: Chris , review by: tweaktown.com
They're baaaaccccckkkk! Let's get historical for a moment. Everyone I know owned an OCZ Vertex. The same can be said about the Vertex 2, and especially the Vertex 3. It didn't matter what other companies were selling, OCZ set the benchmark and everyone e...
The OCZ ARC 100 series is the most affordable solid-state drive on the market. The drive has good performance and supports encryption
The new SSD doesn't come with any accessories or software, it has a short three-year warranty, and its performance ranks behind that of other recently released drives
All things considered, the OCZ ARC 100 series is an excellent upgrade to a sluggish computer, thanks to good performance and affordable pricing....
Hace más de tres años que no disponemos ningún producto de OCZ, así que nos sentimos entusiasmados al saber que íbamos a recibir una muestra de uno de las unidades de estado sólido de la compañía, y más tras ser adquirida por Toshiba, ya que esto ha hecho...
