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The OCZ Vertex 4 ships in a dark grey and black box, dramatic and effectively designed. The capacity is listed bottom right on the front of the box.
OCZ include a quality 3.5 inch drive tray, mounting screws, literature on the product and a ‘MY SSD is faster than your HDD' sticker.
The Vertex 4 ships in a dark chassis, which is comprised of a plastic front and a metallic rear panel.
The chassis is opened by removing 4 screws from the rear. There is a cooling pad which connects directly with the Indilinx Controller.
The Indilinx controller is marked IDX400MOO-BC (Vertex 3 controller was IDX300M00-BC). OCZ are using Intel synchronous 25nm NAND flash memory (29F32B08JCME3). Each of these is 32GB capacity (8 x 32GB on both sides of the PCB) alongside 256MB of Micron DRAM.
Just before we started testing, OCZ updated the firmware (from '30' to '31') with last minute performance increases. Using their dedicated Toolbox software only takes a few seconds and the process is painfree.
