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This time, we received a full retail package with an image of the product on the front as well as a short listing of specifications.
Inside, the drive is wrapped in an antistatic bag. There are also some mounting screws, a little user manual and a 3.5 inch tray for system installation.
The drive looks very regal, with the simple gold sticker and black chassis. The rear is a metallic finish with product information listed.
OCZ are using 3xNM NAND in this unit. The Sandforce 2281 controller is capable of parallel read and write performance above 500 MB/s when used with a good SATA 3 controller. OCZ's shift to 3xNM NAND is certainly aimed at increasing performance … it is more expensive to produce. The rated power drain is 1.65 watts when idle and 3 watts when loaded. It is shock resistant to 1500G and has a MTBF expectancy of 2 million hours. The drive has an ECC recovery up to 55 bits correctable per 512 byte sector. It also has full TRIM support, which would be expected.
There are 16 modules of 16GB Toshiba NAND flash memory in the drive which is 32nm flash memory. The total capacity is rated to 256GB with one module driven for over provisioning. Before formatting, the drive is set at 240GB, this reduces to around 223GB after a Windows format.
Christ thats a quick SSD. I thought my 40GB intel one was good :p
Im still very impressed with the ADATA drive, its quite a bit cheaper and generally holds its own.
Its a lot of cash, but if I had it, id get one of these. would last for years. Cant see a new sata interface coming out soon anyway, so this is as good as it gets.
whats next sata 9GBps ?
Thats a really great idea. They cover all bases !
Why would the smaller drive have higher IOPS in one category?
OCZ make some great SSD’s I don’t think id buy anyone else. the 240GB is too rich for my blood. 120gb maybe…… any review coming up for it?
I still think these are small sellers, there is no way someone is spending almost 500 on an SSD for a system.
I read in the last review that OCZ wouldnt be bringing out a 60GB version of the vertex 3. have you any idea why? its an ideal size for a boot drive imho.
IOPS is where its at. but im not sure home users really need it. interesting to see OCZ with different versions of the same product. they certainly dont like to be surpassed in anything by other companies!
my next SSD, already saving up 😉