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
For full details of how we conduct our Iometer tests, please refer to this article.
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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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.