Earlier this year I had the chance to visit the OCZ offices. While being shown the offices I could sense the excitement. At that time they finally had the Indilinx crew in the office and they were very excited about how having an in house NAND Controller and firmware production would change the future of OCZ’s SSD business. The first drive that Indilinx had a hand in was the OCZ Vertex 4. Today we are going to put the Vertex 4 to the test in our new benchmark suite along with a few other SATA 3 drives to see how they perform. I hope that the same excitement that I saw in the OCZ offices will equal top notch performance from their current flagship SSD. Packaging
It’s been a while, but the Vertex 4 shares a similar look as far as packaging as the last Vertex we took a look at. Being OCZ’s flagship drive, it has a sharp all black design that matches the same black they use on the drive. The box is small, obviously, so beyond the picture of the drive you only have a few other important details on the front. Around back there really aren’t a lot of details on the drive but OCZ has put a short paragraph about the Vertex 4 drives. There aren’t specifications because OCZ will use this same packaging for all of the different capacity Vertex 4’s.
Inside the drive itself is wrapped up in a static protective bag and locked into place in a foam tray. OCZ also included a 2.5 to 3.5 inch adapter that is tucked away on the bottom of the packaging as well as all the screws needed to put it to use. You also get an installation drive and one of their “My SSD is faster than your HDD” stickers.
