OCZ Trion 100 (240GB, 480GB & 960GB) SSD Review: Bringing Toshiba to the Retail
by Kristian Vättö on July 9, 2015 12:01 PM ESTSequential Read Performance
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Fortunately sequential read performance is better than random, although for some reason the performance decreases as the capacity goes up. It seems like the controller may have trouble keeping up with the increasing number of LBAs to track, or frankly it could be just poor optimization too because the Neutron XT has no similar performance issues despite the similar underlying architecture. Another explanation could be increased latency from higher density NAND packages as there is some performance penalty due to longer wiring, although Samsung doesn't have any performance issues with its high density packages.
Unlike the performance, power consumption does go up with capacity, making the higher capacities less efficient.
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The reason for poor performance lies in bad scaling because it takes a queue depth of 16 until the 480GB and 960GB models reach their peak performance.
Sequential Write Performance
Sequential write performance, on the other hand, is as poor as random write performance. I'm again surprised that the higher capacities present only marginal increase, whereas in write performance the additional NAND should help to distribute writes to a larger number of die for increased performance.
Power is again pretty high, though, especially when considering the performance against other drives.
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ocz_tuff_bunny - Friday, July 17, 2015 - link
Hi sonny73n,Thank you for your comment. You are right there is still a price gap between SSD and HDD. With the introduction of Trion 100 and OCZ adjusting prices quickly with the market trend we hope to narrow that price gap and making this SSD affordable for the mass market. Thank you again for your feedback and words of encouragement.
Ryan Smith - Saturday, July 11, 2015 - link
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sonny73n - Friday, July 10, 2015 - link
"considering the Samsung alternative" Really?I have an 840 EVO from not too long ago in my laptop and I'm so ready to send it to the trash. There's an article here about its problems which Samsung have been incapable of fixing with new firmware updates that you should take a look on. Beside, I consider it's cheating when Samsung use my system RAM as cache for their SSD. My next SSD definitely won't be Samsung's.
NvidiaWins - Friday, July 10, 2015 - link
Samsung is terrible SSD manufactuer, in fact Intel was the only SSD that passed Torture Testinghttp://www.extremetech.com/computing/173887-ssd-st...
ggathagan - Tuesday, July 14, 2015 - link
I've heard of a "one trick pony" before.I've never seen a "one link troll" before now.
The linked article doesn't even involve Samsung SSD's.
Not only are you a troll, you're an ignorant troll.
shadowjk - Saturday, July 11, 2015 - link
Toshiba's silence on the drive probably makes enthusiasts nervous about this drive, if they weren't already nervous considering OCZ's heritage... This might be a tough sell indeed.jabber - Sunday, July 12, 2015 - link
To be honest SSDs like these should be marketed cheap and largely aimed at SATA I/II kit owners. A lot of kit out there is still only SATA II and to be honest the cheapest SSD out there will push 260MBps all day long and still feel light speed fast compared to the 5400rpm 65MBps HDD it replaced. No point bothering trying to say they compete for SATA III owners. Hence why I buy a lot of the Kingston V300 SSDs. Most here wouldnt touch them but they are reliable, the cheapest and will push a SATA II laptop or PC to its max.romrunning - Thursday, July 9, 2015 - link
"OCZ wasn't involved in the development of the Trion 100, but it did help Toshiba to validate the drive. "With OCZ's past history, I found that statement to be quite humorous! :)
TheWrongChristian - Thursday, July 9, 2015 - link
Yeah. I was expecting the relationship to work the other way round.The_Assimilator - Thursday, July 9, 2015 - link
It makes sense, since OCZ has far more SSD experience than Toshiba; that's why Toshiba bought them. Unfortunately it looks like OCZ's "validation" procedures haven't changed much from the days of the Vertex 2 debacle.