OCZ Octane 128GB SSD Review
by Anand Lal Shimpi on December 28, 2011 12:27 AM ESTFinal Words
I'm still trying to get my hands on smaller capacities of other newer SSDs to add them to our growing database of SSD performance data. For now it looks like the Octane is a good solution for typical desktop users, even at its 128GB capacity. Performance in those tests is once again competitive with SandForce drives. It's in write heavy workloads that the reduction in number of available NAND die penalizes the Octane. The distinction is as simple as that: if you're running write heavy workloads, the higher capacity Octanes remain competitive where the 128GB falls off. For most desktop/notebook users however, the 128GB drive should be among the best.
I still wouldn't recommend the Octane for Mac OS X use without TRIM. SandForce is still best suited for the TRIM-less environments, although I've been quite pleased with the Samsung SSD 830 under OS X for the past few months as well.
My recommendation continues to be that you wait-and-see. The Octane has only been publicly available for a month now, it'll be several more before we get a good idea of how well these drives are holding up in the myriad of system configurations and usage models that are out there. So far, so good though.
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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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