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Crystalmark is a useful benchmark to measure theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSDs. We are using V3.0.3.
The VX500 handles fairly deep read queue depths quite well but does struggle when dealing with deep writes. At shallow depths, the drive handles writes much more efficiently than reads. Looking at the two sets of benchmark results, the Toshiba controller doesn't seem to have a preference to what type of data it's being asked to handle.
Great review thanks!
Seems like a decent drive, does make me wonder if they are going to continue the old Vector (VT) line and try and claw back some of the high end consumer market segment.
This seems like a very safe, solid drive and that should’t be an issue. But for better or worse OCZ was always a fairly avant guarde, forward looking company. This drive feels like a tweaked rebaged of the Q300, is this what OCZ has become?
What happened to Barefoot 3 and Indilinx controllers, sure they lacked low power sates, but it rivalled the might of Samsung for years! I was really hoping to see an evolution of this tech. Hell maybe it (The IP) has been incorporated into the new Toshiba Controllers and we would never know. But the new Tosh drives seem to behave so different in the benchmarks I doubt it.
I guess I was just hoping for something a little different from OCZ, in a very very similar and saturated SSD Market. For better or worse they always had an interesting product line up…