[drka0tic]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4256/t...3-review-120gb

Anand finally finished his review of the retail 120GB Vertex 3 drive.

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What I have in my hands is retail 120GB Vertex 3 with what OCZ is calling its final, production worthy client firmware. The Vertex 3 Pro has been pushed back a bit as the controller/firmware still have to make it through more testing and validation.

 

[AzO]

Long good read.

This is a good move by OCZ, by clearly labeling IMFT chips with a suffix of .25 and .34 after the model number. It will force the hand of other SF based companies to do the same.

 

[CallsignVega]

Write performance is a bit low. It actually did fairly well in the "real world" type scenarios like gaming even considering it was up against drives twice the capacity.

 

[damtachoa]

For that price $299, give me a break.

 

[falcon26]

I'll stick with my C300 128GB. I was going to get the Vertex 3 120 but after seeing some reviews and some user's bench marks it not that much faster then the C300. As a matter a fact my C300 beat the V3 120 in 4k read and writes. Its only in Seq read and writes did it do better. Everything else my C300 scored better....



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[drka0tic]

Anand should've included the C300 128GB. This is ultimately the 120GB V3's closest competitor. I'm torn between the 2. I need to get familiar with these benchmarks and figure out what really is 'real-world' performance.

 

[Homeles]

I <3 Anandtech. Especially when it comes to graphics cards and SSD reviews.

Wasn't Anand putting out a new SSD compendium? I want to read it.

 

[iinsom]

I recently got an OCZ 3, on the X58 UD7.

Im getting roughly 400mb/s read, and 280-300mb/s write. However other users are reporting 530/490, with a better sata3 driver (Marvell X58 are horrible

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[Yor_]

So...with the native Sata III controller on the Intel P67 chipset...would I see the intended, nice performance if I buy the Vertex 3?

 

[iinsom]

2600K | ASRock P67 Fatal1ty | 8GB DDR3 | OCZ Vertex 3 120GB | 5970 2GB | Forte | Lian Li P50

Thats the guys rig, and his results.

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So about 550/490..... I'll live with that. NB, stock settings on the HDDtune benchmark was showing ~350MB/s read, but that has a horrible test size IIRC. The file benchmark was at/above 500MB/s.

 

[dejanh]

Same as current gen drives on SATA 3Gb/s. Exactly as expected. Unless you are running native SATA 6Gb/s, no point in any of these drives. Overall, good review.

 

[IgorDJ]

So is the 50$ more for the vertex 3 from the c300 worth it

Im looking to replace my intel m-80 g2 drive