OCZ Vertex 460 240GB SSD Review

Business as usual for OCZ, the Vertex 460 240GB ships in a small black box similar to previous designs from the company.

The bundle includes mounting screws, literature on the product, an ‘I love my SSD' sticker and a 3.5 inch drive mount. They also give a serial key and download link for the excellent Acronis cloning software package.

The Vertex 460 240GB ships in a metal chassis which is 7mm deep – ideal for fitting into an ultraportable laptop.

Opening the chassis invalidates the warranty, so please don't do this if you have one of these drives at home, that is why we are here. The Indilinx Barefoot 3 M10 controller is covered by a thermal pad, highlighting the fact that the metal chassis acts as a heatsink.

The Vertex 460 PCB is loaded with 16 NAND chips (16x16GB), 2 DRAM chips and the Indilinx Barefoot 3 M10 controller. This is the same controller than was used on the Vertex 450. The drive is configured with 7% over provisioning to give a final figure of 240GB.

Obviously the new drive is using Toshiba NAND – 19nm Toshiba Toggle Mode MLC, to be precise. OCZ are using two Micron DDR3-1333mhz 1.5v chips for the DRAM buffer.

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