OCZ 30GB Vertex (OCZSSD2-1VTX30G)
Jun 9th, 2009 | By SimonATTO Disk Benchmark
ATTO Disk Benchmark is probably one of the gold standards when it comes to drive performance. The software itself is fairly old but it works, measuring transfer rates at different transfer sizes for a file being 256MB in size.
The OCZ Vertex is off to a very strong start, almost 50% faster than the JMicron MLC SSD. It is a few MB/s slower than the G.Skill Falcon which also uses the Indilinx Barefoot controller but the difference is negligible at these rates. We’re talking maybe needing to wait an extra second or two for a file transfer to complete.
Crystal Disk Mark
Crystal Disk Mark is another disk benchmark software commonly used, unlike ATTO Disk Benchmark, Crystal Disk Mark is our first look at sequential transfer rates as well as 4KB and 512KB Random transfer rates.
Crystal Disk Mark Sequential Read didn’t give a realistic number; it was in the thousands of megabytes per second. We can see that the 4KB random read and write performance doubled over the JMicron controller. Once the drive was full, the write performance for the Vertex at 512KB Random and Sequential shows little difference and actually falls back in the ranking.
Nodesoft Disk Benchmark
There’s nothing fancy to DiskBench, I commonly use it to see how long it takes to copy a file from one source to another. Seeing as this is a hard drive review, I’m going to use the “Create File” feature and determine the speed at which the hard drive is able to create a 200MB file consisting of 100 2MB blocks.
My hdd died a few weeks ago… I have some spare traditional drives I could have replaced it with but wanted something new to play with and wanted to ease the bottleneck that normal drives create. I got 2 of these 30gb drives for the price of one, do to a deal I worked out with a customer, and in raid0 they KILL traditional drives. KILL.
The Intel X25-M is still king of the hill because of its read speed with 4kb files. The X25-M scores 112,164 on my system with 4KB read (ATTO) vs. the Vertex 50,000. I have personally used 5 different types (SLC, MLC JMICRON 1, MLC JMICRON 2, Vertex, Intel) of SSD and nothing compares to the X25-M.
Sean wrote:
We’re doing a review for HighPoint card and the results are smoking indeed. We’ll have the results up soon and they are definitely good
Frank Rizzo wrote:
Yes, the Intel X25-M is still the king of the hill but not everyone can afford one and that needs to be taken into considerations. You’re looking at twice the price for an Intel SSD vs the Indilinx MLC.
Simon wrote:
The Intel drives are actually less expensive than the Vertex. I just bought another X25-Ms 80GB from Newegg.com for $289.95 (free shipping) yesterday. That is $2.96 per Gigabyte.
The OCZ Vertex 30GB is $4.30 per Gigabyte AFTER you factor in the rebate.
The Vertex drives aren’t bad, but they are OVERPRICED. The 30GB drive should sell for $75 not $149. The 120GB Vertex is not worth a dime more than $180. I would consider a 120GB Vertex for $180, but I’ll take an 80GB Intel ($290) over a 120GB Vertex ($355) any day of the week.
Frank Rizzo wrote:
If the Vertex 30GB cost $75 and the 120GB cost $180 then it would definitely be a steal and it would sell out in no time. As it stands even if OCZ’s cost per GB is still higher the overall cost for being able to own an SSD, and get good performance, is much lower than buying an Intel drive. Not everyone can afford $300 for an 80GB Intel SSD. The $130AR makes the Vertex a very promising buy and the $150 saved could be put to other upgrades.
@ Sean:
I have 2 vertexes in raid 0 as well with windows vista, the only thing they killed is each other…
something is obviously wrong with my installation, I used to get random hangs, but now it is even worse, windows crashes with one of the drivers not detected any more on restart… I have to leave my system cool down before it can detect the driver again…
strange…