OCZ Vertex 3 Preview: Faster and Cheaper than the Vertex 3 Pro
by Anand Lal Shimpi on February 24, 2011 9:02 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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j.harper12 - Thursday, February 24, 2011 - link
I'm just happy that this far along, my Agility 2 is still holding up well. Thanks for all of the great reviews!Dug - Thursday, February 24, 2011 - link
Anand,Could you please run the Anandtech Storage Bench 2011 with 1 standard hard drive, even if it takes forever to run? I always like to see a reference as many of us don't have SSD yet.
Denithor - Thursday, February 24, 2011 - link
Seconded! Just run using like a Caviar Black drive so we can see how much better SSD is versus a top-of-the-line mechanical drive.Would be appreciated!
mckirkus - Thursday, February 24, 2011 - link
Thirded. Perspective is a good thing.cactusdog - Friday, February 25, 2011 - link
Fourthed, and i know a guy who wants fifthed.pandemonium - Friday, February 25, 2011 - link
Would be nice for technicalities, but you can see the comparison on the 2010 version with WD's Velociraptor.Shadowmaster625 - Thursday, February 24, 2011 - link
I would like to know how the 60GB version performs. Especially if they are cutting the number of chips in half vs the 256GB version.DarkKnight_Y2K - Thursday, February 24, 2011 - link
According to the press release on OCZ's website the Vertex 3 will be available in 120GB and 240GB capacities. The Vertex 3 Pro wil be available in 100GB, 200GB, & 400GB capacities.Hopefully they will eventually release 60GB version. I would love to have two in RAID 0.
Per Hansson - Thursday, February 24, 2011 - link
Hi, has the much talked about hibernation problem with the Sandforce drives been solved in the 2xxx series?Loosing Hibernation is pretty much a deal killer for me in a laptop :(
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&am...
douglaswilliams - Thursday, February 24, 2011 - link
Will these faster drives speed up virus scans?Currently, when a virus scan is running, my laptop performance is crippled.