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It doesn’t matter how good any of the synthetic suites are, the real meat of the testing has to be under absolute real world conditions. This proves difficult as to record results we have to narrow down fluctuation. Therefore while we would say these are the most useful results to get from this review, there is always going to be a slight margin for error – its not absolutely scientific.
Firstly we installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit Edition onto each of the drives and performed a clean update from Microsoft with all patches and security fixes. We then install a basic suite of software, such as Office, Firefox and Adobe Design, then we install AVG free antivirus. We used a digital watch for this startup and repeated the test five times for each drive – once we had these five results we averaged the results and took that for the final figure.
Exceptional performance, scoring 22 seconds – right at the top of the chart.
The Vertex 4 512GB claims the top spot in our performance chart, right behind the RAID 0 Intel 520 configuration and the RevoDrive 3 x2 480GB.
id like to see how the 128GB fares, but it looks a lot worse. still thats incredible performance if you can afford 512gb.
looks like a dream drive for a server relying on database operations daily.
Yeah ill have to get me one of these for the new system. great review, IOPS is killer. thanks.
Sandforce I dont trust, never have too many issues.
They got it right this time. Looks like a good price to performance drive. The quicker they move away from Sandrorce the more we can all sleep better at night. I bought a Corsair FOrce on sandforce and it was nothing but trouble from day one.
Im pleased for OCZ. they got burned badly with Sandforce and have placed a lot of resources into this platform. Without them the SSD market would be years behind the point it is at now.
Excellent read, thanks.