Conclusion

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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.

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 6 - Random write KByte/s
Page 2 - Impressions	Page 7 - Random read KByte/s
Page 3 - How do we test?	Page 8 - Random write IOPS
Page 4 - Sequential write KByte/s	Page 9 - Random read IOPS
Page 5 - Sequential read KByte/s	Page 10 - Conclusion

Authors: m.buechel@ocaholic.ch