OCZ Vertex 4 128GB SSD Review (firmware 1.4 update)

The OCZ Vertex 4 ships in a stylish black and dark grey box. They list the capacity bottom right of the box.

OCZ include a lovely, branded 3.5 inch drive bay with mounting screws. There is also literature on the product.

The Vertex 4 is dark, comprised of a plastic front panel and a metal rear panel.

Please remember that opening these drives will invalidate your warranty. That is why we are here, to show you the insides without you having to take the risk.

The Indilinx controller is marked IDX400MOO-BC (Vertex 3 controller was IDX300M00-BC) – although its underneath a thermal pad in our images. OCZ are using Intel synchronous 25nm NAND flash memory (29F64G08ACME3). There are sixteen ONfi NAND modules on the PCB, each of them 8GB in size.

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