There’s not much to share with installation. The drive gets installed like any other and at most you may wish to obtain a 2.5″ to 3.5″ bracket for a sturdy installation.

Once installed, I compared the power consumption of the OCZ Agility to a few other SSDs. The power drawn is for my entire system with the only variable being the SSD drive. All the drives have similar power requirements.

There’s a pretty big difference between the OCZ Agility compared to what my other SSDs required to run the same computer. The loaded power consumption was taken with ATTO Disk Benchmark running. The load fluctuated between 210W and 230W. The idle condition was with just the system idling on the desktop.

I will be testing the OCZ 64GB Agility on my test bed as the primary drive with the OS installed on it. Here is my system specification:

Control

• CPU: Intel C2D Q6600 (G0 SLACR L731B434) @ 2.71 GHz

• MB: Asus P5E3-Dlx Wifi-AP Edition
• GPU: Sapphire HD 4850 X2 Catalyst
• RAM: Aeneon 2×2GB XTune DDR3-1600 (AXH860UD20-16H) @ 1800 MHz 10-10-10-30 1T
• PSU: Cooler Master Real Power Pro 850W
• CPU Cooling: Thermalright HR-01 w/ 120mm Antec Tri-Cool Fan
• PWM/NB/SB Cooling: Stock/Stock/Stock
• OS: Windows Vista x64

Hard Drives

• OCZ 64GB Agility (OCZSSD2-1AGT60G)

• Corsair 64GB P64 (CMFSSD-64GBG2D)
• Patriot Memory 64GB Torqx SSD (PFZ64GS25SSDR)
• G.Skill 64GB Falcon (FM-25S2S-64GBF1)
• OCZ 30GB Vertex (OCZSSD2-1VTX30G)

To test out the drive we’ll be using DiskBench, Crystal DiskMark, SiSoft Sandra, HD Tune 3.10, ATTO, HDTach, IOMeter and Boot Timer. All benchmarks were executed 5 times and the average result was recorded. The system was reset between each benchmark.

To add a little flavour to the review, I’m going to benchmark the OCZ Agility twice – once when the drive has only Windows Vista and the benchmarking software installed, denoted “New” in the benchmarks, and once when the drive is completely full with files then deleted to make room for the benchmark test files, about 15GB. These results will be denoted “Full”. I’m doing this to see what the performance impact is once the drive is full of files.

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