OCZ Vertex 3 Preview: Faster and Cheaper than the Vertex 3 Pro
by Anand Lal Shimpi on February 24, 2011 9:02 AM ESTPerformance vs. Transfer Size
All of our Iometer sequential tests happen at a queue depth of 1, which is indicative of a light desktop workload. It isn't too far fetched to see much higher queue depths on the desktop. The performance of these SSDs also greatly varies based on the size of the transfer. For this next test we turn to ATTO and run a sequential write over a 2GB span of LBAs at a queue depth of 4 and varying the size of the transfers.
As we've already seen everywhere else, the Vertex 3 performs identically to the Vertex 3 Pro - it's just cheaper.
AnandTech Storage Bench 2011 - Light Workload
AS-SSD High Queue Depth Incompressible Sequential Performance
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j.harper12 - Thursday, February 24, 2011 - link
I'm just happy that this far along, my Agility 2 is still holding up well. Thanks for all of the great reviews!Dug - Thursday, February 24, 2011 - link
Anand,Could you please run the Anandtech Storage Bench 2011 with 1 standard hard drive, even if it takes forever to run? I always like to see a reference as many of us don't have SSD yet.
Denithor - Thursday, February 24, 2011 - link
Seconded! Just run using like a Caviar Black drive so we can see how much better SSD is versus a top-of-the-line mechanical drive.Would be appreciated!
mckirkus - Thursday, February 24, 2011 - link
Thirded. Perspective is a good thing.cactusdog - Friday, February 25, 2011 - link
Fourthed, and i know a guy who wants fifthed.pandemonium - Friday, February 25, 2011 - link
Would be nice for technicalities, but you can see the comparison on the 2010 version with WD's Velociraptor.Shadowmaster625 - Thursday, February 24, 2011 - link
I would like to know how the 60GB version performs. Especially if they are cutting the number of chips in half vs the 256GB version.DarkKnight_Y2K - Thursday, February 24, 2011 - link
According to the press release on OCZ's website the Vertex 3 will be available in 120GB and 240GB capacities. The Vertex 3 Pro wil be available in 100GB, 200GB, & 400GB capacities.Hopefully they will eventually release 60GB version. I would love to have two in RAID 0.
Per Hansson - Thursday, February 24, 2011 - link
Hi, has the much talked about hibernation problem with the Sandforce drives been solved in the 2xxx series?Loosing Hibernation is pretty much a deal killer for me in a laptop :(
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&am...
douglaswilliams - Thursday, February 24, 2011 - link
Will these faster drives speed up virus scans?Currently, when a virus scan is running, my laptop performance is crippled.