OCZ Vertex 3 (240GB) Review
by Anand Lal Shimpi on May 6, 2011 1:50 AM ESTOverall System Performance using PCMark Vantage
Next up is PCMark Vantage, another system-wide performance suite. For those of you who aren’t familiar with PCMark Vantage, it ends up being the most real-world-like hard drive test I can come up with. It runs things like application launches, file searches, web browsing, contacts searching, video playback, photo editing and other completely mundane but real-world tasks. I’ve described the benchmark in great detail before but if you’d like to read up on what it does in particular, take a look at Futuremark’s whitepaper on the benchmark; it’s not perfect, but it’s good enough to be a member of a comprehensive storage benchmark suite. Any performance impacts here would most likely be reflected in the real world.
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B0GiE - Friday, May 6, 2011 - link
NIce to see the review, shame you never looked at the Vertex 3 Max IOPS versions though. Any chance you can get hold of them and report on the differences?Anand Lal Shimpi - Friday, May 6, 2011 - link
Still waiting on my review sample, I'm guessing it'll be next week :)Take care,
Anand
sequoia464 - Monday, May 9, 2011 - link
Any Idea when the Samsung 470 review will be up?? Quite interested in your take on this drive.cearny - Friday, May 6, 2011 - link
Realyy great review, but in my case it raises even more doubt. I was about to pull the trigger on the 120GB version of the Intel 510, but now I don't know what performance to expect at all.Do you think you'll also be able review the lower-capacity Intel 510/320 drives in the near future?
Anand Lal Shimpi - Friday, May 6, 2011 - link
The 120GB 510 is next on my list :)Take care,
Anand
cearny - Saturday, May 7, 2011 - link
That's great news! Looking forward to the review :DM@rc - Friday, May 6, 2011 - link
I have a question regarding TRIM: if I install both Windows 7 (TRIM support) and OS X (no TRIM) on the same SSD, will that potentially cause problems?HilbertSpace - Friday, May 6, 2011 - link
Good question, I'm guessing it would only run TRIM on the windows partition and not the Mac one.ajp_anton - Friday, May 6, 2011 - link
I don't need more than 120GB. Any chance of a review of Intel's 120GB version?jjj - Friday, May 6, 2011 - link
Any word on a new firmware rls date? see http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p...Anyway waiting eagerly for M4 and Max IOPS @ 120GB reviews since those 2 seem to be the most interesting given the price/perf ratio.