OCZ Trion 150 480 Gigabyte Review
Category : Storage
Published by Marc Büchel on 19.02.16
With their Trion 150 series, OCZ shows their second generation of drives with TLC NAND. Therefore it's rather obvious that OCZ is about to continue the price wars when it comes to budget SSDs. Looking for the controller we find a chip from Toshiba and we're rather curious to find out how this drive does in our review.
Specifications / Delivery
| Model | Trion 150 120 Gigabyte | Trion 150 240 Gigabyte | Trion 150 480 Gigabyte | Trion 150 960 Gigabyte |
| Capacity | 120 GB | 240 GB | 480 GB | 960 GB |
| Form Factor | 2.5'', 7 mm | 2.5'', 7 mm | 2.5'', 7 mm | 2.5'', 7 mm |
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| Endurance | 3 years @ 27 GB/day ~ 30 TBW ( | 3 years @ 55 GB/day ~ 60 TBW | 3 years @ 110 GB/day ~ 120 TBW | 3 years @ 219 GB/day ~ 240 TBW |
| Controller |
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| Cache | 128 MB DDR3 | 256 MB DDR3 | 512 MB DDR3 | 1GB DDR3 |
| Model | Toshiba 15nm - A15 TLC | Toshiba 15nm - A15 TLC | Toshiba 15nm - A15 TLC | Toshiba 15nm - A15 TLC |
| Throughput |
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| Accesstime (read) | < 0.1 ms | < 0.1 ms | < 0.1 ms | < 0.1 ms |
| Power consumption |
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| Acoustics | no noise | no noise | no noise | no noise |
| Warranty | 3 Years - Shield Plus | 3 Years - Shield Plus | 3 Years - Shield Plus | 3 Years - Shield Plus |
| Price |
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With the Trion 150 OCZ shows their second SSD, which is based on TLC NAND flash memory. The predecessor, the Trion 100, was using 19 nanometer NAND flash memory, wheras the new Trion 150 is now based on 15 nanometer flash. Switching to NAND with a smaller manufacturing process allows a vendor to lower its pricing even further and at the same time realize drives with higher capacity. As you might know, TLC memory chips are capable of storing three bits per cell, whereas MLC can only hold two bits. The increases the capacity per NAND chip and provides the vendor with more headroom regarding pricing as well as capacity.
As with the predecessor also the Trion 150 is using a Toshiba Alishan controller, which goes by the name TC58, or to be even more precise: TC58NC1000GSB-00. Apart from that it has been combined with TH58TET1UDKBAEG NAND flash memory, which, as we already mentioned, is TLC NAND. A closer look at the line-up reveals there have four different models been launched, where there is a 120GB, a 240GB, a 480GB and a 960GB model.
A closer look at the Trion 150's bundle shows clearly that these entry level drives are targeting the entry level segment. Next to the management software SSD Guru, the drives are covered by OCZ's so called Shield Plus warranty. If a customer is under the impression that a drive is defective it can be sent to OCZ. A service technicians will check if the drive is actually damaged or not. Should that be the case, the customer immediately receives a new drive, whereas return shipment costs are being covered by OCZ. In the case of the Trion the Shield Plus warranty last three years.
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 Deneva 2 200 GB eMLC |
|
| OCZ Trion 100 960 GB | |
| OCZ Vector 150 240 GB |
|
| OCZ Vector 180 480 GB |
|
| OCZ Vector 180 960 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 |
|
| OCZ Vertex 460 120 GB |
|
| OCZ Vertex 460 240 GB |
|
| Plextor M5Pro 256 GB |
|
| Samsung PM830 SSD 128 GB |
|
| Samsung PM830 SSD 256 GB |
|
| Smasung 840Evo 120 GB |
|
| Samsung 840Evo 250 GB mSATA |
|
| Samsung 840Evo 1 TB |
|
| Samsung 840 PRO 256 GB |
|
| Samsung 850 PRO 256 GB |
|
| Samsung 850DC EVO 960 GB |
|
| Samsung 845DC PRO 800 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 VII Gene |
| Chipset | Intel Z97 |
| CPU | Intel Core i7-4700k |
| Memory | G.Skill Ares 2133 MHz |
| Graphics card | ASUS GeFroce GTX 680 |
| Storage (system) | Intel SSD 335 Series |
| Operating systems | Windows 7 64 Bit with caching drives |
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 |
| Intel SSD 750 PCIe x4 1.2 TB |  |
1'361'466 |
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD |  |
1'291'486 |
| Intel SSD 750 PCIe x4 400 GB | |
1'064'310 |
| Kingston HyperX Predator 480GB |  |
1'018'023 |
| Samsung 950 PRO M.2 NVMe 256GB | |
928'417 |
| 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 |
OCZ Vector 180 960 GB
|
|
537'432 |
Samsung 840 PRO 256 GB
|
|
536'082 |
OCZ Vector 180 480 GB |
|
535'560 |
| OCZ Trion 150 480 GB | |
534'455 |
OCZ Vector 150 240 GB |
|
534'262 |
OCZ Vector 256 GB
|
|
534'058 |
OCZ Deneva 2 200 GB eMLC |
|
533'969 |
| Intel SSD 335 Series 240 GB | No Review |
533'672 |
Samsung 850 PRO 256 GB
|
|
531'027 |
| 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 Trion 100 960 GB | |
517'599 |
| OCZ Vertex 3.20 240 GB | |
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 |
Samsung 845DC PRO 800GB
|
|
500'153 |
ADATA XPG mSATA SSD SX300 128 GB
|
|
499'239 |
Extrememory XLR8 Express 120 GB
|
|
491'205 |
| Samsung PM863 960GB | |
480'603 |
| OCZ Synapse 64 GB | |
469'784 |
Samsung 840Evo 1 TB |
|
462'097 |
ADATA S511 60 GB
|
|
457'001 |
| Plextor M5Pro 256 GB | No Review |
444'122 |
Crucial M500 480 GB |
No Review |
439'829 |
Samsung 845DC EVO 960GB
|
|
436'531 |
| OCZ Vertex 4 512 GB | |
434'466 |
| OCZ Vertex 460 120 GB | |
421'139 |
| OCZ Agility 4 256 GB | |
405'911 |
| Plextor M6V 256 GB | No Review | 354'926 |
ADATA S511 SSD 120 GB
|
|
343'488 |
Corsair Force 3 120 GB
|
 |
328'922 |
Samsung 840Evo 250 GB mSATA |
No Review |
324'238 |
| 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 840Evo 120 GB
|
No Review |
219'159 |
| Toshiba Q300 480 GB | |
199'001 |
| 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 |
| Intel SSD 750 PCIe x4 1.2 TB | |
2'337'700 |
| Intel SSD 750 PCIe x4 400 GB | |
2'156'208 |
| Samsung 950 PRO M.2 NVMe 256GB | |
1'868'569 |
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD | |
1'460'560 |
| Kingston HyperX Predator 480GB | |
1'006'809 |
| 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 Trion 100 960 GB | |
559'075 |
| OCZ Vector 256 GB
|
|
553'400 |
| Samsung 850 PRO 256 GB
|
|
548'836 |
| 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 180 960 GB
|
|
544'820 |
| Samsung PM863 960GB | |
544'742 |
| Samsung 845DC PRO 800GB
|
|
544'499 |
| Toshiba Q300 480 GB | |
543'852 |
| ADATA XPG mSATA SSD SX300 128 GB
|
|
543'650 |
| ADATA S511 SSD 120 GB
|
|
542'606 |
| OCZ Vector 180 480 GB |
|
542'453 |
| Corsair Neutron GTX 240 GB
|
|
542'442 |
| OCZ Vertex 4 512 | |
542'075 |
| Samsung 845DC EVO 960GB
|
|
541'626 |
| Kingston HyperX SSD 120 GB
|
|
541'613 |
Intel SSD 335 Series 240 GB |
No Review |
541'542 |
| Corsair Force GS 240 GB
|
|
541'086 |
| OCZ Deneva 2 200 GB eMLC |
|
540'973 |
| 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 840Evo 1 TB |
|
536'542 |
| OCZ Vertex 3 240 GB | |
534'988 |
| OCZ Vertex 3.20 240 GB | |
534'392 |
| OCZ Vertex 450 256 GB | |
534'241 |
| Samsung PM830 SSD 256 GB | |
534'154 |
| Samsung 840Evo 250 GB mSATA |
No Review |
532'816 |
| Plextor M5Pro 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 |
| OCZ Vertex 460 120 GB | |
529'462 |
| Plextor M6V 256 GB | No Review | 526'912 |
| Crucial M500 480 GB |
No Review |
525'278 |
| Extrememory XLR8 Express 120 GB |
|
521'930 |
| OCZ Trion 150 480 GB | |
520'767 |
| OCZ Agility 3 240 GB | |
516'479 |
| Kingston SSDNow V+ 200 90 GB
|
|
510'372 |
| SanDisk Extreme SSD 120 GB
|
|
507'743 |
| Samsung 840Evo 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 |
||
| Random write |
Bewertung |
Throughput 4 KByte Block Size |
| Intel SSD 750 PCIe x4 1.2 TB | |
1'025'236 |
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD | |
756'658 |
| Intel SSD 750 PCIe x4 400 TB | |
630'013 |
| Samsung 840 PRO 256 GB
|
|
412'837 |
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 240 GB | No Review |
382'970 |
| OCZ Vertex 4 512 GB | |
362'053 |
| Samsung 850 PRO 256 GB
|
|
360'357 |
| OCZ Vector 150 240 GB |
|
356'006 |
| OCZ Vertex 4 256 GB | |
354'573 |
| OCZ Vector 256 GB
|
|
354'246 |
| Samsung 845DC EVO 960GB
|
|
346'184 |
| Crucial M500 480 GB |
No Review |
346'003 |
| Samsung 840Evo 1 TB |
|
344'730 |
| Samsung 845DC PRO 800GB
|
|
343'726 |
| OCZ Trion 100 960 GB | |
342'969 |
| OCZ Agility 4 256 GB | |
341'478 |
| Samsung 950 PRO M.2 NVMe 256GB | |
334'795 |
| OCZ Octane 1 TB | |
325'007 |
| OCZ Octane 512 GB | |
324'023 |
| Kingston HyperX Predator 480GB | |
300'308 |
| Corsair Force GS 240 GB
|
|
301'486 |
| Samsung 840Evo 250 GB mSATA |
No Review |
299'848 |
| OCZ Vertex 450 256 GB | |
292'401 |
| SanDisk Extreme SSD 240 GB
|
No Review |
287'255 |
| OCZ Vertex 3.20 240 GB | |
286'949 |
| Samsung PM863 960GB | |
285'893 |
| Corsair Neutron GTX 240 GB
|
|
285'558 |
| OCZ Vertex 460 120 GB | |
285'407 |
| Intel SSD 520 180 GB
|
No Review |
284'858 |
| Intel SSD 520 240 GB
|
|
283'794 |
| OCZ Deneva 2 200 GB eMLC |
|
283'409 |
| 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 |
| Plextor M6V 256 GB | No Review | 270'615 |
| ADATA XPG mSATA SSD SX300 128 GB
|
|
264'870 |
| OCZ Vector 180 960 GB
|
|
263'409 |
| OCZ IBIS 240 GB | |
262'687 |
| Intel SSD 335 Series 240 GB |
No Review |
262'005 |
| Kingston HyperX SSD 120 GB
|
|
255'988 |
| Plextor M5Pro 256 GB | No Review |
254'918 |
| OCZ Vector 180 480 GB |
|
254'367 |
| Corsair Force GT 120 GB |
|
253'269 |
| SanDisk Extreme SSD 120 GB
|
|
252'045 |
| ADATA S511 SSD 120 GB
|
|
244'150 |
| OCZ Agility 3 240 GB | |
242'683 |
| Extrememory XLR8 Express 120 GB |
|
237'082 |
| Corsair Force 3 120 GB
|
|
225'092 |
| ADATA S511 60 GB |
|
226'394 |
| OCZ Trion 150 480 GB | |
224'059 |
| 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 840Evo 120 GB
|
No Review |
148'166 |
| Samsung PM830 SSD 128 GB | |
132'997 |
| Toshiba Q300 480 GB | |
117'538 |
| 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 |
| Intel SSD 750 PCIe x4 1.2 TB | |
975'428 |
| Samsung 950 PRO M.2 NVMe 256GB | |
871'877 |
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD | |
640'327 |
| Intel SSD 750 PCIe x4 400 GB | |
575'665 |
| Kingston HyperX Predator 480GB | |
443'069 |
| Samsung 840Evo 250 GB mSATA |
No Review |
400'192 |
| Plextor M5Pro 256 GB | No Review |
392'851 |
| Samsung 850 PRO 256 GB
|
|
390'689 |
| Samsung 840Evo 1 TB |
|
384'527 |
| Samsung PM863 960GB | |
382'724 |
| OCZ Vector 256 GB
|
|
381'510 |
| OCZ Vector 180 960 GB
|
|
380'211 |
| Toshiba THNSNF512GCSS 512 GB | No Review |
373'590 |
| OCZ Vertex 4 512 GB | |
368'728 |
| Samsung 845DC PRO 800GB
|
|
368'001 |
| OCZ Vector 180 480 GB |
|
366'031 |
| 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 |
| Samsung 845DC EVO 960GB
|
|
349'781 |
| OCZ Vertex 4 256 GB | |
348'881 |
| Samsung 840Evo 120 GB
|
No Review |
348'724 |
| Crucial M500 480 GB
|
No Review |
346'164 |
| OCZ Vertex 450 256 GB | |
337'922 |
| Toshiba Q300 480 GB | |
336'133 |
| OCZ Vector 150 240 GB |
|
328'627 |
| Plextor M6V 256 GB | No Review | 318'023 |
| Samsung PM830 SSD 256 GB | |
310'109 |
| OCZ Vertex 460 120 GB | |
309'467 |
| OCZ Trion 150 480 GB | |
299'605 |
| Intel SSD 520 240 GB
|
|
283'794 |
| OCZ Agility 4 256 GB | |
255'743 |
| Kingmax SMP35 Client 240 GB | |
231'999 |
| OCZ Deneva 2 200 GB eMLC |
|
226'958 |
| Intel SSD 520 180 GB
|
No Review |
212'409 |
| OCZ Vertex 3.20 240 GB | |
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 Trion 100 960 GB | |
135'611 |
| 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 |
||
| Random write |
Bewertung |
IOPS 4 KByte Block Size |
| Intel SSD 750 PCIe x4 1.2 TB | |
260'904 |
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD | |
189'164 |
| Intel SSD 750 PCIe x4 400 GB | |
157'503 |
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 240 GB | No Review |
95'782 |
| Samsung 850 PRO 256 GB
|
|
91'053 |
| 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 845DC EVO 960GB
|
|
86'634 |
| Samsung 845DC PRO 800GB
|
|
85'813 |
| Samsung 840Evo 1 TB |
|
85'792 |
| OCZ Agility 4 256 GB | |
85'373 |
| Samsung 950 PRO M.2 NVMe 256GB | |
83'322 |
| OCZ Vector 150 240 GB |
|
81'175 |
| Kingston HyperX Predator 480GB | |
77'077 |
| Samsung 840Evo 250 GB mSATA |
No Review |
76'721 |
| Corsair Force GS 240 GB
|
|
75'577 |
| OCZ Vertex 450 256 GB | |
74'983 |
| OCZ Deneva 2 200 GB eMLC |
|
74'389 |
| Samsung 840 PRO 256 GB
|
|
72'000 |
| Samsung PM863 960GB | |
71'883 |
| OCZ Vertex 3.20 240 GB | |
71'470 |
| Intel SSD 520 240 GB
|
|
71'338 |
| OCZ Vertex 460 120 GB | |
71'323 |
| 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 |
| OCZ Vector 180 960 GB
|
|
69'998 |
| Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120 GB
|
|
69'760 |
| Corsair Force GT 120 GB
|
|
69'108 |
| OCZ IBIS 240 GB | |
67'339 |
| Plextor M6V 256 GB | No Review | 66'608 |
| 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 |
| OCZ Vector 180 480 GB |
|
64'244 |
| Plextor M5Pro 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 |
| OCZ Trion 150 480 GB | |
56'014 |
| 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 840Evo 120 GB
|
No Review |
38'077 |
| Toshiba Q300 480 GB | |
34'314 |
| OCZ Trion 100 960 GB | |
33'348 |
| 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 |
| Intel SSD 750 PCIe x4 1.2 TB | |
247'587 |
| Samsung 950 PRO M.2 NVMe 256GB | |
220'703 |
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 480 GB PCIe-SSD | |
160'832 |
| Intel SSD 750 PCIe x4 400 GB | |
143'916 |
| Kingston HyperX Predator 480GB | |
111'097 |
| Samsung 840 PRO 256 GB
|
|
100'198 |
| Samsung 850 PRO 256 GB
|
|
99'919 |
| Samsung 840Evo 250 GB mSATA |
No Review |
99'476 |
| Plextor M5Pro 256 GB | No Review |
98'600 |
| Samsung 840Evo 1 TB |
|
96'308 |
| Samsung PM863 960GB | |
95'811 |
| OCZ Vector 256 GB
|
|
95'614 |
| Toshiba THNSNF512GCSS 512 GB | No Review |
93'251 |
| Samsung 845DC PRO 800GB
|
|
92'101 |
| OCZ RevoDrive 3 240 GB | No Review |
91'642 |
| OCZ Vertex 4 512 GB | |
92'288 |
| OCZ Vector 180 960 GB
|
|
92'275 |
| OCZ Vector 180 480 GB |
|
92'001 |
| Samsung 840Evo 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 |
| Samsung 845DC EVO 960GB
|
|
87'544 |
| Crucial M500 480 GB |
No Review |
86'622 |
| Toshiba Q300 480 GB | |
85'823 |
| OCZ Trion 100 960 GB | |
85'274 |
| OCZ Vertex 450 256 GB | |
84'561 |
| Plextor M6V 256 GB | No Review | 79'276 |
| Samsung PM830 SSD 256 GB | |
77'637 |
| OCZ Vertex 460 120 GB | |
77'119 |
| OCZ Trion 150 480 GB | |
74'901 |
| OCZ Agility 4 256 GB | |
63'925 |
| Kingmax SMP35 Client 240 GB | |
57'856 |
| OCZ Deneva 2 200 GB eMLC |
|
55'090 |
| 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 | |
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 |
Threaded Performance
Throughput 1 Thread (QD1)
| 4k | 8k | 16k | 32k | 64k | 128k | 256k | 512k | |
| Seq write | 535258 | 544633 | 546365 | 550638 | 534809 | 557408 | 548877 | 555825 |
| Seq read | 451266 | 436891 | 471073 | 454101 | 442451 | 489628 | 468151 | 483314 |
| Rand write | 154839 | 244046 | 321190 | 401990 | 451858 | 528084 | 526226 | 532956 |
| Rand read | 24157 | 38003 | 59611 | 83004 | 127260 | 201384 | 286320 | 362584 |
Throughput 4 Threads (QD4)
| 4k | 8k | 16k | 32k | 64k | 128k | 256k | 512k | |
| Seq write | 548279 | 511846 | 534354 | 528461 | 557575 | 560812 | 551382 | 531058 |
| Seq read | 444208 | 432991 | 459227 | 541420 | 540161 | 541961 | 518691 | 449945 |
| Rand write | 338943 | 457392 | 488357 | 527078 | 550827 | 560142 | 544252 | 560274 |
| Rand read | 110095 | 158836 | 199479 | 266088 | 307805 | 444287 | 551898 | 533068 |
Throughput 8 Threads (QD8)
| 4k | 8k | 16k | 32k | 64k | 128k | 256k | 512k | |
| Seq write | 535513 | 518931 | 530794 | 545342 | 539504 | 541032 | 497484 | 528005 |
| Seq read | 309231 | 409875 | 470911 | 483048 | 400479 | 497185 | 485554 | 494039 |
| Rand write | 320279 | 435000 | 480972 | 512688 | 529385 | 536120 | 533688 | 536132 |
| Rand read | 186249 | 269625 | 339723 | 395689 | 474742 | 545131 | 535438 | 543675 |
Throughput 16 Threads (QD16)
| 4k | 8k | 16k | 32k | 64k | 128k | 256k | 512k | |
| Seq write | 534261 | 520954 | 528565 | 534459 | 541813 | 520212 | 534455 | 541232 |
| Seq read | 235090 | 481478 | 495868 | 499687 | 414496 | 421389 | 520767 | 420312 |
| Rand write | 325606 | 453633 | 487689 | 508132 | 531241 | 536886 | 537559 | 561676 |
| Rand read | 293317 | 389520 | 475137 | 515505 | 540725 | 547458 | 539238 | 545161 |
Throughput 32 Threads (QD32)
| 4k | 8k | 16k | 32k | 64k | 128k | 256k | 512k | |
| Seq write | 507329 | 520589 | 517979 | 517720 | 510861 | 484496 | 525208 | 526361 |
| Seq read | 380813 | 520141 | 468241 | 538881 | 485886 | 482464 | 491382 | 476310 |
| Rand write | 224059 | 425644 | 279201 | 290571 | 296674 | 321068 | 315975 | 354493 |
| Rand read | 299605 | 303529 | 440933 | 466942 | 391946 | 398332 | 437459 | 431368 |
SSD Guru
SSD Guru is OCZ's management software for their SSDs. As you might have expected it gives you an overview on the drives capacity and it tells you when your SSD is going to be full. Apart from that you also see information on the drives health on the overview page as well as other details. If you'd like you can also dive deeper and check the SMART data yourself. OCZ added some additional information where necessary in the case of SMART data, so it's easy to understand what these values actually describe.
The second tab "Tuner" allows you to do initiate the TRIM command yourself and you can also change the overprovisioning setting. Apart from that, there is also the so called "OS Tuner", where you can choose from the four different settings "Reliability", "Performance", "Capacity" and "Custom".
Using the "Settings" tab, you can select options related to logging or if you want to enable SSD Guru, when your system is booting up. Apart from that there are monitoring options and you can even add proxy related settings.
On the "Maintenance" page OCZ allows you to initiate firmware updates as well as a Secure Erase.
What might be practical too is the "Help" tab. Here you have links to the OCZ Support as well as to OCZ's Support Forum. There is also detailed information on your drive, which you can save easily to you drive, simply by hitting the save button.
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 Trion 150, OCZ launched the sucessor of their Trion 100, which again features very aggressive pricing. On the other hand the pricing also reflects in the performance to a certain extent, althought the 480 Gigabyte model we tested here is definitely no slow drive. We like the fact that OCZ bundles these drives with their Shield Plus warranty plan for three years. Apart from that you also get the SSD Guru software, which is a nice goodie on top.
Having a look at the performance number shows that in sequential write and read the Trion 150 is capable of pushing 534 MB/s over the bus while sequentially writing and 520 MB/s sequentially reading. In terms of random 4k performance this is also not slow drive, performing at 56'000 IOPS for 4k random write and 74'900 IOPS in random read. Also with this drive we have been looking at performance with low queue depthts. Measuring IOPS at QD1 our results were 38'700 IOPS in the case of random write and 6'000 IOPS for random read. Overall performance is on a competitive level regarding the entry level segment.
Last but not least this leaves us talking about the price. The 480 Gigabyte version we've tested here, is already up on Geizhals.at where you can find it listed for as little as 119 Euro. The price per Gigabyte is 0.25 Euro, which is, as we already mentioned, on a very aggressive level. Considering the good warranty plan, this is a very attractively priced drive, which we can recommend.
Recommendation
Should you be looking for an aggressively priced 480 Gigabyte SSD, the Trion 150 can definitely be considered.
