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The OCZ Vertex 4 ships in a dark grey and black box, dramatic and effectively designed. The capacity is listed bottom right on the front of the box.
OCZ include a quality 3.5 inch drive tray, mounting screws, literature on the product and a ‘MY SSD is faster than your HDD' sticker.
The Vertex 4 ships in a dark chassis, which is comprised of a plastic front and a metallic rear panel.
The chassis is opened by removing 4 screws from the rear. There is a cooling pad which connects directly with the Indilinx Controller.
The Indilinx controller is marked IDX400MOO-BC (Vertex 3 controller was IDX300M00-BC). OCZ are using Intel synchronous 25nm NAND flash memory (29F32B08JCME3). Each of these is 32GB capacity (8 x 32GB on both sides of the PCB) alongside 256MB of Micron DRAM.
Just before we started testing, OCZ updated the firmware (from '30' to '31') with last minute performance increases. Using their dedicated Toolbox software only takes a few seconds and the process is painfree.
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.