OCZ Vertex 2 100GB SSD Review

The AS SSD benchmark is another free utility which was created specifically with SSD’s in mind. It delivers a plethora of tests across sequential read and write and also places random read and write loads across a specific area of the drive. This is a good tool to use in conjunction with Windows 7 as it mirrors a very real world set of conditions.

These results are interesting as they show the new drive being outperformed by the older Indilinx Barefoot Vertex drive. This only paints a small portion of overall performance however.

We therefore decided to run the 4k-64 thread test directly comparing the Vertex 2 against the Vertex.

The increases are evident in the 4k-64 threaded test with the new SandForce controller reaping massive rewards when compared to the Indilinx Barefoot controller. Around 8x as fast in the write test is simply staggering.

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