Testseek.co.uk have collected 139 expert reviews of the OCZ 2.5 inch Vertex 2 Series SATA300 and the average rating is 89%. Scroll down and see all reviews for OCZ 2.5 inch Vertex 2 Series SATA300.
August 2010
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The editors liked
Spectacular IOPS performance for a consumer drive
Duraclass keeps the drive in check
Even under heavy benching
Included 2.5"~3.5" bracket
Looks great
Sandforce SF-1200 controller flies
Awesome application performance
Excellent read and write performance
Good value for money
Top real world performance
Excellent pure performance
Excellent performance in practical tests
3.5" adaptor included
The editors didn't like
Price
Corsair F100 is quicker
Too much money for 100GB
Do you need more than 60GB SSD?
Quality doesn't come cheap
Random access of small files not as fast other operations
TRIM support, Good sequential read and write, Great Depth 32 Que 4k Reads and Writes, New SandleForce Controller looks good!, 3 year warranty
Price Vs Storage Capacity
Performance wise the OCZ Vertex 2 does an excellent job of satisfying our need for speed. Price wise we aren't ready to throw our endorsement completely behind any SSD at this time. With a $400(ish) price tag and formatted capacity of around 93GB that...
Abstract: It is hard to believe that almost two years has passed since we first rounded-up some of the first solid state drive offerings for the PC. Since that time, the landscape has changed dramatically. Capacities have increased somewhat, but performance has ...
Silky smooth operation as a system drive and completely stable, Outstanding reading and writing performance, Outstanding 4K random I/O performance, Excellent multitasking potential, TRIM support under Windows 7, Lightning fast access times, Completely
Expensive with high cost per GB of user storage.
Let us summarise the most important positive and negative points belowThe main positive pointsThe OCZ Vertex 2 series drives are good in fact, extremely good. Reading and writing access times are lightning fast and applications load in an instant, making...
Several manufacturers are jumping on the SandForce bandwagon, and we can't help but wonder what will happen to the Indilinx-based drives. Are they destined for the mainstream sector? It's hard to say because they are still very fast drives, making any ...
Abstract: With the right workload, SandForce's SF-1200 storage controller has enormous potential. All three of the SF-1200-based drives we tested offer solid sequential throughput and very fast random access times across a range of transfer sizes. The SF-1200 proved particularly adept at handling random writes with larger transfer sizes, and..
Abstract: Today we have a quick preview of the OCZ Vertex 2 SSD that is currently breezing its way through our SSD testing benchmarks. Sure, hexa-core Gulftown and Thuban CPUs are all the current rage, and graphics cards like the Radeon HD 5870 and GeForce GTX 4...
Final Words & Conclusion It's not a secret that with the SF1200 series SSDs, OCZ brings a great new SSD series to the market. On certain applications we see baffling numbers reaching advertised speeds. The most shocking results we see however are in PC...
Given what we had already seen from the previous Sandforce-based SSDs, the Vertex 2 was never going to disappoint in terms of performance. However taking into account OCZ's current pricing strategy and the sequential and IOPS (Input/Output Operations ...
Abstract: These three new SandForce-1200 based models performed very well in our testing, competing with Intel in IOPS and completely dominating in write performance. The only thing really holding these drives back from total market domination is the price. That awesome write performance comes at the cost of heavy over-provisioning, which leads to less flash available for..
