OCZ ARC 100 (240GB) SSD Review
by Kristian Vättö on August 26, 2014 7:00 AM ESTPerformance vs. Transfer Size
ATTO is a useful tool for quickly benchmarking performance across various transfer sizes. You can get the complete data set in Bench. The ARC 100 no longer has the weird drop in read performance at IO size of 32KB, but it is generally slower than the Vertex 460 and Vector 150. It is still better than the MX100 in both read and write, though.
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Anato - Thursday, August 28, 2014 - link
Those pull down menus are pain to use. Please use old buttons instead. Thanks!MHz Tweaker - Sunday, August 31, 2014 - link
Of the 12 SSD's I have purchased in the last 5 years.....qty 4 Vertex 2's
qty 1 HyperX 3K
qty 2 Vertex 4's
qty 3 Samsung EVO's
qty 2 Samsung 840 Pro's
I have had 2 failures, both OCZ drives (one Vertex 2 and one Vertex 4)
The Vertex 2 died within a few months of purchase
The Vertex 4 died in just under a year
My top choice would be Samsung then 2nd Crucial and maybe another HyperX 3K drive 3rd
danwat1234 - Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - link
In the article, I don't really see how the Arc 100 , Vector 150, Vertex 460 isn't OK for the laptop crowd. It is only taking half a watt at idle, less than a typical 5400RPM laptop drive of about 1 watt. It is unfortunate DIPM isn't supported but no big deal.In the article, doesn't the Arc 100, Vector 150 and Vertex 460 all use the same 19nm flash, but you say the Arc 100 uses slower flash? I know the controller in the Vertex460 and Arc 100 is slower than in the Vector 150 (350 vs 400MHZ or so) and I think slightly slower DRAM cache speed.
Thanks
danwat1234 - Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - link
Also how much lower is the Arc 100 120GB version in performance versus 240GB? Less die means less performance..