Testseek.co.uk have collected 71 expert reviews of the OCZ 2.5 inch Synapse Cache Series SATA600 and the average rating is 86%. Scroll down and see all reviews for OCZ 2.5 inch Synapse Cache Series SATA600.
January 2012
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Clever mix of performance and capacity
Cache can deliver SSDlike speed in ideal scenarios
Low price SSD, Good price-performance ratio, Comes with TRIM command, Can be used as a non-caching SSD, Good warranty, Includes 3.5" mounting tray, Includes DataPlex caching software
Caching software requires relicensing upon hardware change
So far, a lot of the solid state drives on the market have been targeted towards the performance enthusiast crowd. However, these drives can cost several hundred dollars, and not everyone wishes to put that much money into one part. OCZ's Synapse Cach...
High performance gain when paired with a traditional HDD drive, Faster than Intel Smart Response Technology, Can be used as a regular (nocache) SSD drive, Can be used with all systems that support SATA2 (or SATA3) technology, Supports TRIM, SMART and 128/256bit AES Encryption, Has a MTBF 2 million hours, Includes 3.5" mounting bracket, 3 years of warranty
Available capacity is half than advertised, Works only with as a primary (boot) drive, DataPLex Software needs relicencing in case you change system components, Requires Windows 7 to operate, Price could be lower for easier user adoption
OCZ’s Synapse Cache solid state drives work quite well at offering a relatively important performance increase to non-Z68 motherboards. Users will see quicker program load and execution thanks to its fast caching feature. This is also achieved without ...
Performance, Innovation, Easy Upgrade, Works With Any Regular HDD, Price Tag
Can Only Cache Boot Drives (At Least For Now)
I always felt that SSD caching solutions should have come a long time ago since the entire concept is not really new and certainly not something hard to achieve especially when there are already quite a few SAS/SATA cards out there that support...
Where I was a tiny bit skeptical about the RevoDrive Hybrid I seem to enjoy this solution all the better.So here's a little story, all our test system these days run of an SSD with applications running from a NAS storage solution. So I had to clone the Wi...
Huge performance improvement, Relatively cheap way to get SSD-like performance for a big harddrive, Simple software setup, no tweaks required, SATA 6 Gbps support, Supports TRIM, 3 year warranty, Nice looking, rugged metal case, 3.5" adapter included
Dataplex only works on primary HDD, High price, considering this a 60 GB SSD, No support for Linux/MacOS, No tweakable parameters
OCZ's Synapse Caching SSD is truly an impressive product. It enables you to get near-SSD performance from a hard disk, of any size, multiple TBs are no problem. Installation of the software is easy and can be completed even by novice users. On the othe...
OCZ set out to broaden their SSD caching options with the Synapse SSD and boy did they deliver. Paired up with the included Dataplex software and a user's own high capacity hard drive, the end results are just plain sick, fly, da bomb, pimp, baller - ...
The OCZ Synapse is one of those “outside the box” ideas that actually works surprisingly well in the real world. It may not be perfect and certainly isn’t the right fit for everyone but in return for using mainly wasted idle CPU cycles, you get a lot m...
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Most casual users and gamers will rightfully be excited about OCZ’s Synapse; the caching works very well even after a single run and will not be easily evicted from the cache, especially after repeated use. Although it is an idea quite similar to Int...
