OCZ Trion 100 (240GB, 480GB & 960GB) SSD Review: Bringing Toshiba to the Retail
by Kristian Vättö on July 9, 2015 12:01 PM ESTRandom Read Performance
For full details of how we conduct our Iometer tests, please refer to this article.
Random read speeds already shed some light to why the Trion didn't perform so well in our Storage Benches as it's simply way behind any other drive.
While the Trion isn't the most power hungry drive, it certainly consumes more than it should given its low performance.
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The Trion starts from the bottom because its QD1 performance at 16-20MB/s is significantly below the rest and the scaling isn't aggressive enough to make up for the difference. High queue depth performance isn't outstanding either, but luckily that has much less relevance in the real world.
Random Write Performance
Unfortunately random write performance doesn't show any better signs. The Trion is again at the bottom of the chart by a quite substantial margin.
Power consumption, on the other hand, is fairly high, making the Trion one of the least efficient drives.
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There is effectively no scaling with queue depth at all, which I find strange. I suspect this is a limitation of the firmware because with 1TB of TLC NAND there should be enough NAND bandwidth to scale, but obviously if the firmware is inefficiently designed that doesn't happen.
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harrynsally - Tuesday, July 21, 2015 - link
I always wondered why no other company bid on the OCZ bankruptcy assets. Toshiba was the only bidder. Now we learn............"Toshiba president Hisao Tanaka and his predecessor Norio Sasaki resigned on Tuesday over a $1.2 billion accounting scandal blamed on management's overzealous pursuit of profits"
"It has been revealed that there has been inappropriate accounting going on for a long time, and we deeply apologise for causing this serious trouble for shareholders and other stakeholders," said a company statement.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/toshiba-p...
yefi - Tuesday, July 14, 2015 - link
I thought Toshiba acquired OCZ for the expertise. Instead, the only thing they seem to be using is the brand label - a brand connoting unreliability and deceitfulness. High-fives upper management!creed3020 - Wednesday, July 15, 2015 - link
Thanks for another great review Kristian. It is always good to see the full spectrum of what exists in the SSD space, and let the results do the talking.I'm still not seeing major advantages over the Crucial MX100 512GB in many cases when it comes to high capacity, great performance, and good value.
I expect more from OCZ when I see that name. My OCZ DDR memory sticks are a reminder of that bygone era.
deadlockedworld - Tuesday, August 18, 2015 - link
Hi folks. Now that the price of this drive has dropped to $279 its looking more attractive as a budget drive. Do we think that there is a possibility that firmware updates would improve its performance over time? Thanks.cbjwthwm - Friday, September 25, 2015 - link
New firmware (11.2) was just released which addresses the high latency issues on heavy loads, which should improve performance (and possibly power consumption as well) in the "The Destroyer" section of these tests where it performed particularly badly.The firmware version format seen on these drives is pretty obviously a Phison S10 controller, so hopefully OCZ can apply their expertise at low latency firmware design from the Barefoot-based products to this architecture and hopefully Phison-based products in general. Barefoot-based drives unfortunately can't really be recommend in general for mobile use because of their high power consumption, so this teaming of OCZ and Phison has some potential (like Intel and Sandforce in their SSD products) for improving the market in general.