Died after 1 month
3/8/2012 4:09:17 PM
Sean from Calgary writes:
- Strengths:
- I was using it for Intel Smart Response caching. It was nice & quick but then it died after 1 month of use. BIOS would hang whenever it was detecting drives and reached the SATA port this one was connected to. Confirmed to be dead when tested on another computer.
Dropped it off for warranty. Will see how long it lasts when I get it or a new one back but from my experience I wouldn't recommend one in a critical situation.
- Weaknesses:
- died after one month
- Summary:
- was fairly quick
Performance Sub-Standard
7/8/2011 1:33:16 AM
Jack from Calgary writes:
- Strengths:
- Cheap
- Weaknesses:
- Performance not as advertised
- Summary:
- If you're looking for a cheap entry to SSD's, go for it, if you're a performance enthusiast. Stay away! Performance is no-where near advertised.
Secondly, there are a ton of forum postings with users having BSOD and random lock-ups with the Vertex 3 and Agility 3 drives.
buyers beware
7/2/2011 11:30:14 AM
Larry from Richmond writes:
- Strengths:
- compressible data transfer speed
- Weaknesses:
- incompressible data transfer speed
- Summary:
- the 500mb+ read and write is benched using ATTO using compressible data.
So if you bench with AS SSD/Crystaldisk mark your sequential read and write are decreased to 160/70 mb/s respectively.
So let say if your transferring a movie from a HDD to your NEW SSD, it's gonna be slower than your hdd to hdd transfer. cuz it's doing it at 70mb/s, as oppose to 120 your hdd outputs out.
happy with it
6/1/2011 7:53:13 AM
B from Calgary writes:
- Strengths:
- strong IOPS and seq read performance
- Weaknesses:
- not quite living up to advertised write specs. i benchmarked ~500MB/s read but only ~310MB/s write on a 6G port. OCZ support said the same when i called regarding the underperforming vertex 2: 525/475 are "up to", no minimum performance guarantee, anything under those values are normal even significantly under.
- Summary:
- fastest SSD i've bought yet (couldn't justify the 120G vertex 3 price tag), over all i'm very happy with it.
i'd suspect 2 of these in RAID 0 would out-perform vertex 3, and for less $$.