OCZ Octane 128GB SSD Review
by Anand Lal Shimpi on December 28, 2011 12:27 AM ESTAnandTech Storage Bench 2011 - Light Workload
Our new light workload actually has more write operations than read operations. The split is as follows: 372,630 reads and 459,709 writes. The relatively close read/write ratio does better mimic a typical light workload (although even lighter workloads would be far more read centric).
The I/O breakdown is similar to the heavy workload at small IOs, however you'll notice that there are far fewer large IO transfers:
| AnandTech Storage Bench 2011 - Light Workload IO Breakdown | ||||
| IO Size | % of Total | |||
| 4KB | 27% | |||
| 16KB | 8% | |||
| 32KB | 6% | |||
| 64KB | 5% | |||
Lighter/more conventional client workloads (thanks to the test being more read-biased than our heavy workload) do quite well on the 128GB Octane. Here the drive is even faster than the SF-2281 based Vertex 3, although the SF-2281 based Patriot Wildfire does pull ahead thanks to the fact that it has more available NAND die for increased parallelism.
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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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