Performance

OCZ advertises the Vertex 450 as having a read speed of up to 540MB/s and a write speed of 530MB/s where the Vector is rated (through them) slightly faster on its read speed. There IOPS ratings are eve more apart as well. So going into my testing I was curious where the Vertex 450 would land. The Vertex 4 performed exceptionally well as did the Vector, so going into my testing I was hoping to see how close the Vertex 450 would get to their performance. To jump into things I went right into CrystalDiscMark to see the overall read and write speeds. Surprisingly the 450 did very well in both read and write speed testing. With a read speed of just under 500MB/s it comes in just short of the Vector and Vertex 4 performance. Write speed performance was actually even more impressive and topped our charts. With the Vertex 450 and the Vector being rated for the same write speed, I wouldn’t be shocked that the small improvement could be attributed to firmware improvements.

When it came to IOMeter, the Vertex 450 held its own but still fits in line with the results OCZ advertised.

In AS SSD the Vertex 450 actually performed better than expected, especially when compared to the numbers from the Vector and Vertex 4. In fact the Vector 450 tops the charts in two of the three tests.

In my last set of tests using Passmark I was very happy to see that the Vertex 450 was able to run right with the Vector and Vertex 4. In the web server and file server tests the Vertex 450 actually bested the other drives. Workstation and Database results weren’t far behind but were more in line with the rest of our benchmark results