OCZ Vector 150 240 Gigabyte Review
Category : Storage
Published by Marc Büchel on 07.11.13
With their Vector series solid state disks OCZ has some very solid and well performing drives in their line-up. Today the US maker of SSDs launches the successor, which goes by the name Vector 150. Ahead of the actualy launch we received a Vector 150 with 240 Gigabyte for testing and we're quite curious what it is that the Americans were actually able to improve, on the already good, Vector drive.
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Specifications / Delivery
| Model | Vector 150 120 Gigabyte | Vector 150 240 Gigabyte | Vector 150 480 Gigabyte |
| Capacity | 120 GB | 240 GB | 480 GB |
| Form Factor | 2.5'', 7 mm | 2.5'', 7 mm | 2.5'', 7 mm |
| Memory |
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| Endurance | 5 years @ 50 GB/day | 5 years @ 50 GB/day | 5 years @ 50 GB/day |
| Controller | Indilinx Barefoot 3 | Indilinx Barefoot 3 | Indilinx Barefoot 3 |
| Model | Toshiba bla bla 19nm | Toshiba bla bla 19nm | Toshiba bla bla 19nm |
| Throughput |
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| Accesstime (read) | < 0.1 ms | < 0.1 ms | < 0.1 ms |
| Acoustics | no noise | no noise | no noise |
| Warranty | 5 Years | 5 Years | 5 Years |
| Price |
129.99 USD |
239.99 USD |
499.99 USD |
It has been almost exactly one year, that OCZ released their first Vector SSD series. In our review on the first Vector we mentioned that it is a solid drive, which performed very good and it's even able to keep with todays fastest drives. So, what could have possibly been improved with the new Vector 150?
First of all we want to have a look at what stayed the same. Apparently the Indilinx IDX500M00-BC controller, which OCZ was using in the original Vector is a really good controller, since the new Vector 150 uses the same chip. Nevertheless there is one thing about the Vector 150 line-up which we think is worth mentioning. Since OCZ is proud of being at the forefront of SSD development we would have expected that there was a 960 Gigabyte Version of this drive, but so far the largest drive is a 480 Gigabyte model.
Now to the improvements: one upgrade concerns the NAND chips. OCZ decided to equip the Vector 150 with 19 nanometre Toogle NAND from Toshiba, which offers 3'000 P/E cycles, which is basically a very reasonable value. Other than that OCZ is using almost nine percent of the drives capacity for overprovisioning purposes. Overprovisioning is helping with endurance, sustained performance as well as keeping the warranty high. Especially when it comes to endurance OCZ offers quite an improvement over the first Vector drive. With the Vector 150, OCZ now advertises that the drive can withstand 50 Gigabyte write per day over a five year period, which is 150 percent more than what the original Vector had to offer (20 Gigabyte per day for five years). This 150 percent improvement is what influenced the name of the Vector 150, which means, that OCZ must be rather proud of this level of endurance.
Included in delivery there is a copy of Acronis True Image as well as a 3.5 inch adapter. Meanwhile we would love to see two versions of SSDs hitting retail: one that comes with and another that ships without bundle, whereas the bulk version should be a bit cheaper. There are quite a few users out there in the wild, that already own an SSD and they want to upgrade, meaning they won't really need the accessories, since they might have bought them with their first SSD already.
Impressions
How do we test?
Testenvironment
| Models | |
| ADATA S511 60 GB |
|
| ADATA S511 SSD 120 GB |
|
| ADATA XPG mSATA SSD SX300 128 GB |
|
| Corsair Force 3 120 GB |
|
| Corsair Force GS 240 GB |
|
| Corsair Force GT 120 GB |
|
| Corsair Neutron GTX 240 GB |
|
| Crucial M500 480 GB |
|
| Extrememory XLR8 Express 120 GB |
|
| Intel SSD 335 Series 240 GB |
|
| Intel SSD 520 180 GB |
|
| Intel SSD 520 240 GB |
|
| Intel X25-M 80 GB |
|
| Intel X25-M Gen2 34nm 160 GB |
|
| Kingmax SMP35 Client 240 GB | n/A |
| Kingston HyperX SSD 120 GB |
|
| Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120 GB |
|
| Kingston HyperX SSD 240 GB |
|
| Kingston SSDNow V+ 200 90 GB |
|
| OCZ Agility 3 240 GB |
|
| OCZ Agility 4 256 GB |
|
| OCZ IBIS 240 GB |
|
| OCZ Octane 512 GB |
|
| OCZ Octane 1 TB |
|
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 240 GB |
|
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD |
|
| OCZ RevoDrive X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD |
|
| OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD |
|
| OCZ Synapse 64 GB |
|
| OCZ Vector 150 240 GB |
|
| OCZ Vector 256 GB |
|
| OCZ Vertex 3 240 GB |
|
| OCZ Vertex 3.20 120 GB |
|
| OCZ Vertex 3.20 240 GB |
|
| OCZ Vertex 4 256 GB |
|
| OCZ Vertex 4 512 GB |
|
| OCZ Vertex 450 256 GB |
|
| Plextor M5Pro 256 GB |
|
| Samsung PM830 SSD 128 GB |
|
| Samsung PM830 SSD 256 GB |
|
| Smasung 840 Evo 120 GB |
|
| Samsung 840 Evo 1 TB |
|
| Samsung 840 Pro 256 GB |
|
| SanDisk Extreme SSD 120 GB |
|
| SanDisk Extreme SSD 240 GB |
|
| Toshiba THNSNF512GCSS 512 GB | n/A |
Testenvironment |
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| Motherboard | ASUS Maximus V Formula |
| Chipset | Intel Z77 |
| CPU | Intel Core i7 2500k |
| Memory | G.Skill Ares 2133 MHz |
| Graphics card | ASUS GeFroce GTX 680 |
| Storage (system) | Intel SSD 335 Series |
| Operating systems | Ubuntu - most recent Kernel version Windows 7 64 Bit with caching drives |
| Filesystem | XFS |
iozone
iozone3 is a benchmark suit for storage solutions which natively runs under Windows/Linux.We are testing the throughput with different block sizes using the following commands:
KByte/s
- iozone -Rb test4k.xls -i0 -i1 -i2 -+n -r 4k -s4g -t32
- iozone -Rb test256k.xls -i0 -i1 -i2 -+n -r 256k -s4g -t32
iops
- iozone -Rb test4ko.xls -i0 -i1 -i2 -+n -r 4k -s4g -t32 -O
KByte/s, Sequential write |
||
| Sequential write | Bewertung |
Throughput 256 KByte Block Size |
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD |  |
1'291'486 |
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 240 GB | No Review |
771'043 |
| OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD |  |
750'096 |
| OCZ RevoDrive X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD |  |
694'586 |
| OCZ IBIS 240 GB | |
680'372 |
| Samsung 840 Pro 256 GB | |
536'082 |
| OCZ Vector 150 240 GB | 534'262 | |
| OCZ Vector 256 GB | |
534'058 |
| Intel SSD 335 Series 240 GB | No Review |
533'672 |
| OCZ Vertex 450 256 GB |
 |
522'897 |
| Corsair Force GS 240 GB | |
522'613 |
| OCZ Vertex 3 240 GB | |
522'212 |
| Kingmax SMP35 Client 240 GB | |
519'430 |
| Kingston HyperX SSD 240 GB | |
519'190 |
| Corsair Neutron GTX 240 GB | |
519'104 |
| OCZ Vertex 3.20 240 GB | No Review |
517'290 |
| Intel SSD 520 240 GB | |
516'603 |
| Kingston HyperX SSD 120 GB | |
515'218 |
| OCZ Vertex 4 256 GB | |
513'309 |
| Corsair Force GT 120 GB | |
512'676 |
| Intel SSD 520 180 GB | No Review |
512'628 |
| SanDisk Extreme SSD 240 GB | No Review |
511'805 |
| OCZ Vertex 3.20 120 GB | |
510'245 |
| SanDisk Extreme SSD 120 GB | |
507'743 |
| Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120 GB | |
505'669 |
| Toshiba THNSNF512GCSS 512 GB | No Review |
504'589 |
| Kingston SSDNow V+ 200 90 GB | |
502'272 |
| ADATA XPG mSATA SSD SX300 128 GB | |
499'239 |
| Extrememory XLR8 Express 120 GB | |
491'205 |
| OCZ Synapse 64 GB | |
469'784 |
| Samsung 840 Evo 1 TB | No Review |
462'097 |
| ADATA S511 60 GB | |
457'001 |
| Plextor M5 Pro 256 GB | No Review |
444'122 |
| Crucial M500 480 GB | No Review |
439'829 |
| OCZ Vertex 4 512 GB | |
434'466 |
| OCZ Agility 4 256 GB | |
405'911 |
| ADATA S511 SSD 120 GB | |
343'488 |
| Corsair Force 3 120 GB |  |
328'922 |
| Samsung PM830 SSD 256 GB | |
321'474 |
| OCZ Octane 1 TB | |
314'144 |
| OCZ Octane 512 GB | |
307'781 |
| Samsung PM830 SSD 128 GB | |
271'696 |
| OCZ Agility 3 240 GB | |
266'401 |
| Samsung 840 Evo 120 GB | No Review |
219'159 |
| Intel X25-M Gen2 34nm 160 GB | |
80'719 |
| Intel X25-M 80 GB | |
77'257 |
KByte/s, Sequential Read |
||
| Sequential Read |
Bewertung |
Throughput 256 KByte Block Size |
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD | |
1'460'560 |
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 240 GB | No Review |
857'972 |
| OCZ IBIS 240 GB | |
806'858 |
| OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD | |
729'929 |
| OCZ RevoDrive X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD | |
716'357 |
| OCZ Vector 150 240 GB | 547'188 | |
| Intel SSD 520 240 GB | |
545'843 |
| Intel SSD 520 180 GB | No Review |
545'656 |
| Samsung 840 Pro 256 GB | |
545'353 |
| OCZ Vector 256 GB | |
553'400 |
| ADATA XPG mSATA SSD SX300 128 GB | |
543'650 |
| ADATA S511 SSD 120 GB | |
542'606 |
| Corsair Neutron GTX 240 GB | |
542'442 |
| OCZ Vertex 4 512 | |
542'075 |
| Kingston HyperX SSD 120 GB | |
541'613 |
| Intel SSD 335 Series 240 GB | No Review |
541'542 |
| Corsair Force GS 240 GB | |
541'086 |
| Toshiba THNSNF512GCSS 512 GB | No Review |
539'056 |
| Samsung PM830 SSD 128 GB | |
539'754 |
| Corsair Force GT 120 GB | |
539'648 |
| Kingston HyperX SSD 240 GB | |
537'745 |
| ADATA S511 60 GB | |
537'560 |
| OCZ Vertex 4 256 | |
536'605 |
| Samsung 840 Evo 1 TB | No Review |
536'542 |
| OCZ Vertex 3 240 GB | |
534'988 |
| OCZ Vertex 3.20 240 GB | No Review |
534'392 |
| OCZ Vertex 450 256 GB |
|
534'241 |
| Samsung PM830 SSD 256 GB | |
534'154 |
| Plextor M5 Pro 256 GB | No Review |
530'606 |
| OCZ Vertex 3.20 120 GB | |
530'584 |
| Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120 GB | |
529'995 |
| SanDisk Extreme SSD 240 GB | No Review |
529'520 |
| Crucial M500 480 GB | No Review |
525'278 |
| Extrememory XLR8 Express 120 GB | |
521'930 |
| OCZ Agility 3 240 GB | |
516'479 |
| Kingston SSDNow V+ 200 90 GB | |
510'372 |
| SanDisk Extreme SSD 120 GB | |
507'743 |
| Samsung 840 Evo 120 GB |
No Review |
504'587 |
| Kingmax SMP35 Client 240 GB | |
498'223 |
| Corsair Force 3 120 GB | |
490'777 |
| OCZ Synapse 64 GB | |
441'396 |
| OCZ Octane 1 TB | |
440'052 |
| OCZ Octane 512 GB | |
438'465 |
| Intel X25-M Gen2 34nm 160 GB |
|
247'759 |
| Intel X25-M 80 GB | |
240'404 |
| OCZ Agility 4 256 GB | |
209'723 |
KByte/s, Random write |
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| Random write |
Bewertung |
Throughput 4 KByte Block Size |
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD | |
756'658 |
| Samsung 840 Pro 256 GB | |
412'837 |
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 240 GB | No Review |
382'970 |
| OCZ Vertex 4 512 GB | |
362'053 |
| OCZ Vector 150 240 GB | 356'006 | |
| OCZ Vertex 4 256 GB | |
354'573 |
| OCZ Vector 256 GB | |
354'246 |
| Crucial M500 480 GB | No Review |
346'003 |
| Samsung 840 Evo 1 TB | No Review |
344'730 |
| OCZ Agility 4 256 GB | |
341'478 |
| OCZ Octane 1 TB | |
325'007 |
| OCZ Octane 512 GB | |
324'023 |
| Corsair Force GS 240 GB | |
301'486 |
| OCZ Vertex 450 256 GB |
|
292'401 |
| SanDisk Extreme SSD 240 GB | No Review |
287'255 |
| OCZ Vertex 3.20 240 GB | No Review |
286'949 |
| Corsair Neutron GTX 240 GB | |
285'558 |
| Intel SSD 520 180 GB | No Review |
284'858 |
| Intel SSD 520 240 GB | |
283'794 |
| OCZ Vertex 3.20 120 GB | |
282'578 |
| Kingston HyperX SSD 240 GB | |
280'556 |
| Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120 GB | |
279'967 |
| Kingston SSDNow V+ 200 90 GB | |
276'859 |
| OCZ Vertex 3 240 GB | |
275'499 |
| ADATA XPG mSATA SSD SX300 128 GB | |
264'870 |
| OCZ IBIS 240 GB | |
262'687 |
| Intel SSD 335 Series 240 GB | No Review |
262'005 |
| Kingston HyperX SSD 120 GB | |
255'988 |
| Plextor M5 Pro 256 GB | No Review |
254'918 |
| Corsair Force GT 120 GB | |
253'269 |
| SanDisk Extreme SSD 120 GB | |
252'045 |
| ADATA S511 SSD 120 GB | |
244'150 |
| ADATA S511 60 GB | |
226'394 |
| OCZ Agility 3 240 GB | |
242'683 |
| Extrememory XLR8 Express 120 GB | |
237'082 |
| Corsair Force 3 120 GB | |
225'092 |
| OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD | |
213'027 |
| OCZ Synapse 64 GB | |
200'308 |
| Samsung PM830 SSD 256 GB | |
156'814 |
| OCZ RevoDrive X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD | |
156'644 |
| Samsung 840 Evo 120 GB | No Review |
148'166 |
| Samsung PM830 SSD 128 GB | |
132'997 |
| Toshiba THNSNF512GCSS 512 GB | No Review |
95'808 |
| Kingmax SMP35 Client 240 GB | |
94'447 |
| Intel X25-M Gen2 34nm 160 GB |
|
62'388 |
| Intel X25-M 80 GB | |
48'194 |
KByte/s, Random read |
||
| Random read |
Bewertung |
Throughput 4 KByte Block Size |
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD | |
640'327 |
| Plextor M5 Pro 256 GB | No Review |
392'851 |
| Samsung 840 Evo 1 TB | No Review |
384'527 |
| OCZ Vector 256 GB | |
381'510 |
| Toshiba THNSNF512GCSS 512 GB | No Review |
373'590 |
| OCZ Vertex 4 512 GB | |
368'728 |
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 240 GB | No Review |
364'987 |
| Corsair Neutron GTX 240 GB | |
359'009 |
| OCZ IBIS 240 GB | |
357'112 |
| Samsung 840 Pro 256 GB | |
353'123 |
| OCZ Vertex 4 256 GB | |
348'881 |
| Samsung 840 Evo 120 GB | No Review |
348'724 |
| Crucial M500 480 GB | No Review |
346'164 |
| OCZ Vertex 450 256 GB |
|
337'922 |
| OCZ Vector 150 240 GB | 328'627 | |
| Samsung PM830 SSD 256 GB | |
310'109 |
| Intel SSD 520 240 GB | |
283'794 |
| OCZ Agility 4 256 GB | |
255'743 |
| Kingmax SMP35 Client 240 GB | |
231'999 |
| Intel SSD 520 180 GB | No Review |
212'409 |
| OCZ Vertex 3.20 240 GB | No Review |
171'179 |
| Intel SSD 335 Series 240 GB | No Review |
171'684 |
| Kingston HyperX SSD 240 GB | |
168'648 |
| OCZ Vertex 3 240 GB | |
167'922 |
| Corsair Force GS 240 GB | |
163'408 |
| Samsung PM830 SSD 128 GB | |
151'097 |
| Extrememory XLR8 Express 120 GB | |
149'622 |
| OCZ Agility 3 240 GB | |
142'942 |
| SanDisk Extreme SSD 240 GB | No Review |
141'910 |
| OCZ Octane 1 TB | |
126'603 |
| OCZ Octane 512 GB | |
123'553 |
| ADATA XPG mSATA SSD SX300 128 GB | |
102'038 |
| Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120 GB | |
102'031 |
| Corsair Force GT 120 GB | |
98'387 |
| Kingston HyperX SSD 120 GB | |
96'042 |
| ADATA S511 SSD 120 GB | |
95'928 |
| SanDisk Extreme SSD 120 GB | |
93'316 |
| Kingston SSDNow V+ 200 90 GB | |
89'121 |
| OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD | |
87'188 |
| Corsair Force 3 120 GB | |
84'113 |
| OCZ Vertex 3.20 120 GB | |
81'160 |
| Intel X25-M Gen2 34nm 160 GB |
|
58'647 |
| ADATA S511 60 GB | |
51'187 |
| OCZ Synapse 64 GB | |
47'918 |
| OCZ RevoDrive X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD | |
43'003 |
| Intel X25-M 80 GB | |
30'287 |
IOPS, Random write |
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| Random write |
Bewertung |
IOPS 4 KByte Block Size |
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD | |
189'164 |
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 240 GB | No Review |
95'782 |
| OCZ Vertex 4 512 GB | |
90'519 |
| Crucial M500 480 GB | No Review |
88'642 |
| OCZ Vector 256 GB | |
88'537 |
| OCZ Vertex 4 256 GB | |
88'460 |
| Samsung 840 Evo 1 TB | No Review |
85'792 |
| OCZ Agility 4 256 GB | |
85'373 |
| OCZ Vector 150 240 GB | 81'175 | |
| Corsair Force GS 240 GB | |
75'577 |
| OCZ Vertex 450 256 GB |
|
74'983 |
| Samsung 840 Pro 256 GB | |
72'000 |
| OCZ Vertex 3.20 240 GB | No Review |
71'470 |
| Intel SSD 520 240 GB | |
71'338 |
| OCZ Vertex 3.20 120 GB | |
71'227 |
| Corsair Neutron GTX 240 GB | |
71'180 |
| Intel SSD 520 180 GB | No Review |
70'944 |
| OCZ Vertex 3 240 GB | |
70'031 |
| Kingston HyperX SSD 240 GB | |
70'016 |
| Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120 GB | |
69'760 |
| Corsair Force GT 120 GB | |
69'108 |
| OCZ IBIS 240 GB | |
67'339 |
| ADATA XPG mSATA SSD SX300 128 GB | |
66'107 |
| SanDisk Extreme SSD 240 GB | No Review |
65'817 |
| Intel SSD 335 Series 240 GB | No Review |
65'714 |
| Kingston SSDNow V+ 200 90 GB | |
64'446 |
| Plextor M5 Pro 256 GB | No Review |
63'620 |
| Kingston HyperX SSD 120 GB | |
63'553 |
| ADATA S511 SSD 120 GB | |
61'302 |
| OCZ Agility 3 240 GB | |
60'579 |
| Extrememory XLR8 Express 120 GB | |
58'604 |
| ADATA S511 60 GB | |
56'749 |
| Corsair Force 3 120 GB | |
56'017 |
| SanDisk Extreme SSD 120 GB | |
53'719 |
| OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD | |
53'618 |
| OCZ Synapse 64 GB | |
52'126 |
| OCZ RevoDrive X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD | |
39'744 |
| Samsung PM830 SSD 256 GB | |
39'192 |
| Samsung 840 Evo 120 GB | No Review |
38'077 |
| Samsung PM830 SSD 128 GB | |
32'772 |
| Toshiba THNSNF512GCSS 512 GB | No Review |
23'799 |
| Kingmax SMP35 Client 240 GB | |
23'640 |
| OCZ Octane 1 TB | |
22'192 |
| OCZ Octane 512 GB | |
20'492 |
| Intel X25-M Gen2 34nm 160 GB |
|
15'434 |
| Intel X25-M 80 GB | |
6'297 |
IOPS, Random read |
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| Random read |
Bewertung |
IOPS 4 KByte Block Size |
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD | |
160'832 |
| Samsung 840 Pro 256 GB | |
100'198 |
| Plextor M5 Pro 256 GB | No Review |
98'600 |
| Samsung 840 Evo 1 TB | No Review |
96'308 |
| OCZ Vector 256 GB | |
95'614 |
| Toshiba THNSNF512GCSS 512 GB | No Review |
93'251 |
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 240 GB | No Review |
91'642 |
| OCZ Vertex 4 512 GB | |
92'288 |
| Samsung 840 Evo 120 GB | No Review |
91'598 |
| OCZ Vector 150 240 GB | 89'692 | |
| OCZ IBIS 240 GB | |
89'630 |
| Corsair Neutron GTX 240 GB | |
89'585 |
| OCZ Vertex 4 256 GB | |
87'654 |
| Crucial M500 480 GB | No Review |
86'622 |
| OCZ Vertex 450 256 GB |
|
84'561 |
| Samsung PM830 SSD 256 GB | |
77'637 |
| OCZ Agility 4 256 GB | |
63'925 |
| Kingmax SMP35 Client 240 GB | |
57'856 |
| Intel SSD 520 180 GB | No Review |
53'477 |
| Intel SSD 520 240 GB | |
51'835 |
| Corsair Force GS 240 GB | |
51'373 |
| Intel SSD 335 Series 240 GB | No Review |
46'647 |
| OCZ Vertex 3 240 GB | |
42'308 |
| Kingston HyperX SSD 240 GB | |
41'917 |
| OCZ Vertex 3.20 240 GB | No Review |
41'813 |
| Samsung PM830 SSD 128 GB | |
37'813 |
| Extrememory XLR8 Express 120 GB | |
37'403 |
| SanDisk Extreme SSD 240 GB | No Review |
36'550 |
| OCZ Agility 3 240 GB | |
35'295 |
| OCZ Octane 1 TB | |
32'403 |
| OCZ Octane 512 GB | |
31'442 |
| Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120 GB | |
25'822 |
| ADATA XPG mSATA SSD SX300 128 GB | |
25'036 |
| Corsair Force GT 120 GB | |
24'807 |
| Kingston HyperX SSD 120 GB | |
24'473 |
| ADATA S511 SSD 120 GB | |
24'338 |
| SanDisk Extreme SSD 120 GB | |
22'278 |
| Kingston SSDNow V+ 200 90 GB | |
21'443 |
| OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD | |
21'853 |
| Corsair Force 3 120 GB | |
20'718 |
| OCZ Vertex 3.20 120 GB | |
20'438 |
| Intel X25-M Gen2 34nm 160 GB |
|
14'606 |
| ADATA S511 60 GB | |
12'963 |
| OCZ Synapse 64 GB | |
11'980 |
| OCZ RevoDrive X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD | |
10'833 |
| Intel X25-M 80 GB | |
5'349 |
Conclusion
Announcement: Despite the circumstance that the rating of a product is based on as many objective facts as possible there are factors which can have an influence on a rating after publication. Every autor may perceive data differently over time whereas one possible reason for example is a deeper background knowledge or understanding of certain processes. Certain unforseen market conditions as well as changes have the potential to render a descision made at a certain point in time obsolete.With the Vector 150, OCZ has a new line of solid state drives, which can certainly convince regarding performance as well as reliability and endurance, but all this comes at a price, meaning the Vector 150 drives are not going to be cheap. Maybe time will change the price a bit over time, but we don't expect the Vector 150 to become a bargain soon. We also don't think that it's OCZs intention to offer the cheapest drive possible with the Vector 150, since in this case it really wouldn't make sense at all to place this SSD's PCB in a rather heavy aluminium case. We think the exact opposite is the case and OCZ wants to prove on every aspect that they've learnt from the past and they want to offer high quality, high performance products. A closer look at endurance figures shows, that the Vector 150 should be able to cope with up to 50 Gigabyte written per day, which is a 150 percent increase over the original Vector drive from one year ago. Compared to the competition OCZ is doing well with this amount of GB per day.
Now it's about time we start talking about performance. There is no doubt the Vector 150 is a fast drive. In our tests the drive was able to perform with 534 MB/s sequential write and 547 MB/s sequential read throughput. When it comes to 4K IOPS we measured 89'500 IOPS regarding random read and 81'000 regarding random write. There is really nothing we could complain regarding performance. Almost 90'000 IOPS and sequential throughputs which are maxing out the SATA interface are what performance figures should look like.
Last but not least this leaves us talking about the price. The 240 Gigabyte version we tested here features a recommended retail price of 239.99 US-Dollar, which really isn't cheap, but nevertheless we're quite curious to see how the price will drop in the upcoming few months after the launch.
Recommendation
Should you be looking for a quick 240 Gigabyte SSD with attractive reliability figures, then you should definitely consider the Vector 150.
Authors: m.buechel@ocaholic.ch