| OCZ Vertex 3 SandForce SF-2281 SSD |  |
| Reviews - Featured Reviews: Storage | |
| Written by Olin Coles | |
| Tuesday, 05 April 2011 | |
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AS-SSD BenchmarkAlex Schepeljanski of Alex Intelligent Software develops the free AS SSD Benchmark utility for testing storage devices. The AS SSD Benchmark tests sequential read and write speeds, input/output operational performance, and response times. Because this software receives frequent updates, Benchmark Reviews recommends that you compare results only within the same version family. Beginning with sequential read and write performance, the 240GB OCZ Vertex 3 produced 505.67 MB/s read speed, and 282.84 MB/s write performance. The sequential file transfer speeds have traditionally been low with this benchmark tool for SandForce controllers because of data compression, so we will concentrate on the operational IOPS performance for this section. Single-threaded 4K IOPS performance delivers 21.69 MB/s read and 61.58 MB/s write, while the 64-thread 4K reads recorded 164.88 MB/s and write performance was 221.39 MB/s... both earning the OCZ Vertex 3 a position ahead of other Sandforce-driven SSDs in our performance results chart below.
Displayed in the chart below, the 64-thread 4KB IOPS performance results for several enthusiast-level storage products helps to illustrate which products offer the best operational input/output under load:
In the next section, Benchmark Reviews tests transfer rates using ATTO Disk Benchmark.
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Comments
Pretty good statement. If i was in their ads department i would take this line and add it somewhere in the product page.
As always Olin, excellent review. with each review you provide all the important information needed to understand how these drives work.
I think is probably time to treat myself with an SSD.
Ive been waiting for these prices to come down a bit. But dam, they are persistent. gonna have to call the EU Trade commission to look up into the scheme.
I think there has to be some type of SSD price fixing going on with these companies just like we saw with the LCDs.
"LG Display, Sharp, and Chunghwa Picture Tubes agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges for participating in a liquid crystal display price-fixing conspiracy and pay $585 million in fines, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday.
Read more: #news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10095219-92.html#ixzz1IfIgIv49
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Anyway something people need to be aware of is the bigger drives 240GB+ perform very different to 120GB and smaller vertex 3's.
Dont expect to get this performance with a 120GB vertex 3 or 60GB vertex 3. They get much slower with smaller capacity.
That's fine. I found just this sort of benchmark on another site and the results are encouraging. The site shows a number of SATA drives benchmarked both on III and on II.
thanks