Conclusion

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With the Trion 150, OCZ launched the sucessor of their Trion 100, which again features very aggressive pricing. On the other hand the pricing also reflects in the performance to a certain extent, althought the 480 Gigabyte model we tested here is definitely no slow drive. We like the fact that OCZ bundles these drives with their Shield Plus warranty plan for three years. Apart from that you also get the SSD Guru software, which is a nice goodie on top.

Having a look at the performance number shows that in sequential write and read the Trion 150 is capable of pushing 534 MB/s over the bus while sequentially writing and 520 MB/s sequentially reading. In terms of random 4k performance this is also not slow drive, performing at 56'000 IOPS for 4k random write and 74'900 IOPS in random read. Also with this drive we have been looking at performance with low queue depthts. Measuring IOPS at QD1 our results were 38'700 IOPS in the case of random write and 6'000 IOPS for random read. Overall performance is on a competitive level regarding the entry level segment.

Last but not least this leaves us talking about the price. The 480 Gigabyte version we've tested here, is already up on Geizhals.at where you can find it listed for as little as 119 Euro. The price per Gigabyte is 0.25 Euro, which is, as we already mentioned, on a very aggressive level. Considering the good warranty plan, this is a very attractively priced drive, which we can recommend.

Recommendation

Should you be looking for an aggressively priced 480 Gigabyte SSD, the Trion 150 can definitely be considered.

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 7 - Random read KByte/s
Page 2 - Impressions	Page 8 - Random write IOPS
Page 3 - How do we test?	Page 9 - Random read IOPS
Page 4 - Sequential write KByte/s	Page 10 - Threaded Performance
Page 5 - Sequential read KByte/s	Page 11 - SSD Guru
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