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When it comes to SSD’s it can be extremely confusing for all but the most knowledgeable enthusiasts. Back in the day people would look at a hard drive read and write speeds and from there you had a good idea of how it would perform. Hell, for that matter, you could tell how fast a drive would be just by reading its spindle speed. These days with SSD’s there isn’t any one thing to look at to be able to judge a drives performance, at least nothing as simple as spindle speed.  Because of that, it’s actually very helpful that OCZ has their performance levels with the Agility and the Vertex. If someone were to look at the performance difference between the Vertex 3 and 4 for example, you would only see a 10 MB/s jump. Where the Vertex 4 really shines is in its high queue depth testing and IOPS. These numbers paint a different story. A story that has you getting the best possible performance everyday, not just when you are transferring a single file.

At the end of the day I am very happy with the Vertex 4’s performance. We put it up against a few of the fastest drives on the market and even though it didn’t top the charts in every single benchmark, it did when it counts. Because of that this would be at the top of my recommendation list, at least until someone comes out with something else that will outperform it. And with it listed at just over $200 currently at this capacity, I don’t think you can really go wrong with that. I wouldn’t let it stop me from picking up the Vertex 4 , but in the interest of being complete  I should we did see a few drive failures when reading consumer reviews posted online. Every drive will have some failures, but before you buy take a look at the most recent reviews to make sure it’s not a trend. Our drive performed flawlessly in all of our testing though.

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garfi3ld replied the topic: #28164 05 Oct 2012 19:55
A look at OCZ's Vertex 4 SSD
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Twodavez replied the topic: #28171 06 Oct 2012 00:42
So,
Do the makers of the SSD's have the technology to make 1 TB SSD's and just don't to keep the prices high and their profits up? I don't have anything against profits, i'm just wondering when these are going to be big enough and cheap enough to do away with the non-ssd or disk drives (not sure of the exact name)...

A little off topic, but i love my SSD and wanna know when i can buy more mega cheap!?!?!?!?
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garfi3ld replied the topic: #28172 06 Oct 2012 01:09
they make them

www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227797

The costs are coming down on SSD's. But we only recently saw the prices drop below a dollar a gig. Multiplying that by 1000 gets really expensive, adding on top of that there is such a small demand for them due to the price that the costs are much more than $1 per GB right now.


To give you an idea on how much the prices have changed already. This drive is three times as fast as the first SSD we tested, has twice the capacity, and costs $120 less.

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