OCZ's Vertex 3: Second-Generation SandForce For The Masses

[Figaro56]

WOW, you really trashed the Corsair RealSSD C300 256GB drive in this review. What's odd is that other reviews I've seen between the C300 and the Vertex 3 have the Corsair RealSSD C300 256GB drive placed just below the Vertex 3 in performance. You must have had something OFF as the C300 performs well above what you show here. You should delete this article as it borders on libel.

 

[Figaro56]

WOW, you really trashed the Corsair RealSSD C300 256GB drive in this review. What's odd is that other reviews I've seen between the C300 and the Vertex 3 have the Corsair RealSSD C300 256GB drive placed just below the Vertex 3 in performance. You must have had something OFF as the C300 performs well above what you show here. You should delete this article as it borders on libel.

 

[Figaro56]

Corsair C300? No such SSD. OOps, my bad. OF COURSE, I'm talking about the CRUCIAL C300!

 

[Guest]

How much faster performance would be from two of these SSD's connected via Gb/s interface in RAID configuration?

 

[unrulynfs]

So would a pair of the vertex 3's be a good RAID 0 config? I've run various 10k raptors for 6years in raid 0 and seeing how low the newer velociraptor numbers are scoring, I'm ready to upgrade again. I've got plenty of disk space on my storage hdd's so that's not a problem. My machine is used for gaming mostly, but I do alot of video editing in Premier Pro and After Effects. I'd also like to consume less energy and produce less noise/heat than my current rig has with the raid raptors and crossfired cards. Seriously, it sounds like a jet on the tarmac before takeoff and if I leave my door closed with this thing running, the room gets hot after awhile. Nice in the winter, sucks in the summer. Most of all, I don't want this to cause any in game stuttering.

 

[ojas]

Mr.Ku, i suppose you've used the 25nm NAND vertex 2 in this?
since this particular version of the drive has a bit of speed problems in certain benchmarks (random read/writes on queue depth of 32) wouldn't it be better to use a normal vertex 2 instead of the E-Series (for benchmarks and otherwise), since those would be 34nm NAND drives and wouldn't suffer from the same problems? i've seen benchmarks for those drives give 130MB/s throughput on 4KB QD32 random writes. And, from what i know, they're almost the same as the E-series in terms of speed.

 

[Guest]

The 'Actual power used' column should be 'Total energy used', and should be in milliwatt-hours (mWh). See Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt#Confusion_of_watts.2C_watt-hours.2C_and_watts_per_hour

 

[Guest]

If you want to be a beta tester go ahead and buy it, OCZ got no solution to offer atm, they are basically selling a product that works 90% of the time so some users wont notice it (those who use their computer 1-2hours a day) if you leave your computer +5hours a day or on all the time prepare to a daily BSOD, Until OCZ offer a solution .