OCZ Octane 128GB SSD Review
by Anand Lal Shimpi on December 28, 2011 12:27 AM ESTPower Consumption
With a more reasonable sized drive in house, we're able to find out just how power efficient the Octane really is. At idle, the drive still uses more power than the competition but under load it's actually quite good - about on par with SandForce's SF-2281 (or better depending on the workload).
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daos - Thursday, December 29, 2011 - link
I recently purchased this drive from the egg and I love it. Very reliable and not one blue screen. This is coming straight from a Sandforce 2281 Corsair Force GT 60GB that would blue screen sitting idle. That drive drove me crazy. Ill never go back to another Sandforce. So far so good. Been running this drive for abourt a month now.gamoniac - Thursday, December 29, 2011 - link
Anand,Last October, you reviewed Kingston's SSDNow V+100 128GB (with Toshiba controller) and gave it a pretty high mark. It performed admirably under both light and heavy Anand Benchmark. A couple months back, the new SSDNow V200 is out, with JMicron controller and better specs than the V+100. I personally own two of each model but the benchmarks I have taken left me puzzled as to what to think about the newcomer. The random read/write department is great but the sequential read/write department is way bad, despite of the 6Gbps specs. I personally thinkg V+100 is way better and feel quite a bit ripped off by V200.
There is no reviews out there for V200 yet and detail info is hard to find. Do you think you can shed some light on the latest from Kingston? Thanks much, and happy new year.
erple2 - Friday, December 30, 2011 - link
Wasn't there a firmware update that was released for the M4's that substantially boosted speeds? I seem to remember that happening after the 256GB drive was released/reviewed.erple2 - Friday, December 30, 2011 - link
Meep. Nevermind. I just re-read the article you linked.johnf1285 - Friday, December 30, 2011 - link
So at what point can we expect to have this SSD turn into a brick just like every other OCZ SSD that I've ever owned?chasM - Sunday, January 1, 2012 - link
Sorry to say it, but all the prices from newegg,amazon, and Compusa are for a different drive. That model is more in the $170 range.LoosCarl - Sunday, January 1, 2012 - link
Get OCZ Octane SSDs from Amazon, if you missed it: http://cl.lk/21hkw07binqq - Friday, January 6, 2012 - link
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