OCZ Agility 4 256 SSD Review – 57p per GB!

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell August 7, 2012 Featured Announcement, SSD Drives

The OCZ Agility 4 256GB ships in a tough plastic blisterpack with the Solid State drive itself in plain view from the front.

OCZ include a little user leaflet on the product and a ‘My SSD is faster than your HDD' sticker. No 3.5 inch adapter with this bundle.

The Agility 4 is finished in a black metal chassis with a sticker on the front highlighting the product range. On the rear is a detailed sticker with serial number and capacity information.

The naked PCB of the Agility 4 256GB. This drive uses the Indilinx Everest 2 IDX400M00-BC controller along with two Hynix DDR3 256 DRAM cache chips. There are 16 x Micron 25nm Asynchronous MLC NAND flash memory chips onboard. Each of these chips is 16GB to deliver a total capacity of 256GB.

When formatted in Windows 7, this is reduced to 238GB.

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4 comments

Darth Diggler
August 7, 2012 at 10:12 am

thats a great deal, I still use a small crucial drive for boot, but its too small and I need an upgrade. the 128gB version of this would be ideal, but I would assume its slower?
Davis
August 7, 2012 at 10:13 am

How are ARIA managing that price, its £30 less than a few other bigger stores in the UK?
Harry
August 7, 2012 at 1:02 pm

good deals all round on SSD’s right now. there is a big sale on ebuyer for Kingston, £50 for a 120GB 🙂