The OCZ Trion 150 SSD Review
by Billy Tallis on April 1, 2016 8:00 AM ESTATTO
ATTO's Disk Benchmark is a quick and easy freeware tool to measure drive performance across various transfer sizes.
The 240GB Trion 150's write speeds are a bit uneven, but the larger capacities are perfectly normal with write speeds that are only slightly behind read speeds.
AS-SSD
AS-SSD is another quick and free benchmark tool. It uses incompressible data for all of its tests, making it an easy way to keep an eye on which drives are relying on transparent data compression. The short duration of the test makes it a decent indicator of peak drive performance.
The Trion 150 manages to mostly top the (SATA) charts for peak read and write speeds, but the distinction is meaningless given how close the competition is.
Idle Power Consumption
Since the ATSB tests based on real-world usage cut idle times short to 25ms, their power consumption scores paint an inaccurate picture of the relative suitability of drives for mobile use. During real-world client use, a solid state drive will spend far more time idle than actively processing commands. Our testbed doesn't support the deepest DevSlp power saving mode that SATA drives can implement, but we can measure the power usage in the intermediate slumber state where both the host and device ends of the SATA link enter a low-power state and the drive is free to engage its internal power savings measures.
We also report the drive's idle power consumption while the SATA link is active and not in any power saving state. Drives are required to be able to wake from the slumber state in under 10 milliseconds, but that still leaves plenty of room for them to add latency to a burst of I/O. Because of this, many desktops default to either not using SATA Aggressive Link Power Management (ALPM) at all or to only enable it partially without making use of the device-initiated power management (DIPM) capability. Additionally, SATA Hot-Swap is incompatible with the use of DIPM, so our SSD testbed usually has DIPM turned off during performance testing.
With and without DIPM, the Trion 150 has similar idle power consumption to its predecessors based on the TC58 controller. It's the best at saving power when ALPM is unavailable, and its device-initiated power management works properly.
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StrangerGuy - Saturday, April 2, 2016 - link
What you say is true, but OCZ *and* planar TLC and lower raw performance is a combination not worth saving $30 against a 850 EVO 500GB.Why Toshiba didn't incinerate the toxic OCZ branding like a dead monkey with ebola is the one of the dumbest corporate decisions in history.
AuDioFreaK39 - Friday, April 1, 2016 - link
The bottom of this article has an advertisement for the OCZ Trion 150 240GB at $45.99. This is actually the price for the 120GB model. The 240GB model is still $61.99 as shown in the price comparison chart.Ryan Smith - Friday, April 1, 2016 - link
The URL is correct. So it must be a data error on Amazon's part.userseven - Friday, April 1, 2016 - link
I have the 480 trion150 and feel completely satisfied with it. I bought it as a replacement for the very last mechanical drive I had. I would probably not use as OS drive, in principle, but for anything other than that I can't find anything wrong with it. Why are you people dissing it? It could be cheaper? Shouldn't everything? It WAS one of the cheapest at that capacity range when I bought it.Lolimaster - Friday, April 1, 2016 - link
Still prefer the Sandisk Ultra II's.Lolimaster - Friday, April 1, 2016 - link
Anand "tech"2016
Still no edit option
Bravo amigos.
doggface - Saturday, April 2, 2016 - link
I think by now we can conclude it is deliberate.Murloc - Saturday, April 2, 2016 - link
there are middle grounds, like edit available only for 5 minutes (à la stackexchange comments) or until a reply to the comment has been posted.Michael Bay - Saturday, April 2, 2016 - link
They are trying to make you use your brain before posting.Arnulf - Sunday, April 3, 2016 - link
My brain hurts!