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OCZ Vertex 120GB SSD Review

Author Edward Chester
Published 12th Jun 2009
Manufacturer OCZ
Price £294.86 (Exc VAT)
as reviewed £339.09 (Inc VAT)
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Features Score 7 for Features
Performance Score 8 for Performance
Value Score 7 for Value
Overall Score 8 for Overall
OCZ Vertex 120GB SSD
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Adding the drive to our test bed as a completely blank spare, we ran the read and write tests of HDTune, the definitive hard drive benchmarking tool. In both tests the drive held up to OCZ's claims with an average (and consistent) read speed of 219.6MB/s and write speed of 197MB/s. Access times were also reported as below 0.1ms, so all in all it looks like a pretty fast drive.








Next we loaded our hard drive test image onto the drive. This consists of an installation of Windows Vista 32-bit Home Premium, the drivers for our test motherboard and graphics card, and an installation of PCMark Vantage and Crysis. With this lot copied onto the drive we ran the HDD portion of PCMark Vantage, which comprehensively tests a drive's performance by emulating a number of common Windows tasks like importing music into Windows Media Player and video conversion, while also including application loading times. As you can see from below, the OCZ put in an impressive performance, only narrowly missing out to Intel's X25-M overall and comfortably beating the Apex series.




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comment Simon J said on 12th June 2009

Interesting review. It seems OCZ have finally got a drive that puts the frighteners on Intel's excellent Intel's X25-M, especially when you consider the 160GB is about &p... more

comment Kanu said on 12th June 2009

This comment in the review is somewhat bizzare:
"However, its speed and price is overkill if you're thinking of getting an SSD for a simple, low-cost media cente... more

comment Frederik said on 12th June 2009

Let's hope then that the new Agility series will get a recommendation from this site, they should be the 'price-breaker series'. Have a look here, http://www.ocztech... more

comment Jay Werfalli said on 12th June 2009

@Kanu - what Ed is saying is that this SDD's price and speed is overkill when you can get an SSD for less which still does the same job of reducing heat, noise and power consu... more

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