OCZ Octane 512GB Solid State Drive Review (v1.13 firmware)

Crystalmark is a useful benchmark to measure theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSD’s. We are using V3.0.1 x64.

4K QD32 performance with the latest firmware is noticeably better. The previous firmware revision measured 58.49 MB/s write. The new 1.13 fw increases 4k QD32 write performance to almost almost 100 MB/s (99.44 MB/s).

Incompressible based read and write performance is very strong with this drive, highlighting the overall strength of the Indilinx Everest controller.

As we do with all our SSD reviews, we enabled ‘compressible’ data mode, called ’0×00′. The Indilinx Everest controller delivers almost equal performance in both modes, which is something we can’t often say about a Sandforce based drive.

Above, some included compares from other leading solid state drives which we have reviewed in recent months.

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