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The rapid drop in 25nm flash availability and slow RAMp up of 20nm production puts OCZ in a tough position. Vector availability is about to get scarce and Vertex 3.20 can't be profitable at less than $1 per GB. OCZ needs a higher profit product with the flash available today and it has to be faster than SandForce to sell, enter the new OCZ Vertex 450.
Knowing that the Vertex 450 was going to be very similar to the Vector series drives, we already had an idea of what we would see on the test bench. We certainly weren't disappointed with performance that lived up to the storied Vertex name. Specifically, we love seeing the consistent performance without the dips we've been so accustomed to seeing with the SandForce drives. The Indilinx Barefoot 3 controller is proving itself to be amongst the best available and frankly SandForce (LSI) needs to step their game soon if they wish to keep pace with what we are seeing from numerous other controllers...
Since I have been reviewing SSDs, there is one particular brand that as been at the forefront of my testing and who are always willing to send me the latest revision of their most popular drives. This is of course OCZ and since I took a look at the Vertex 3 nearly two years ago, I've seen a number of Vertex drives since. One of these drives that I looked at - namely the Vertex 3 Max IOPS 120GB is one that I still use to this day in my laptop for rendering work when out and about at events and its not skipped a beat on me once - proof that the drives are highly reliable in the long run!
Moving forward to today, the advances in SSD technology as we know are moving quicker than ever and drives are no pouring out of factories quicker that we would have imagined just a few years ago, but the big names in the SSD market are all trying to keep the users on their side by re-kindling and improving on their known product lines in order to try and keep the upper hand.
The Vertex line of drives as highlighted above is again seeing another update and a fresher look at the same time, hoping to keep it as one of the more popular drives in the SSD market. The most recent update that we saw from OCZ was with the slightly older Vertex 3, whilst the Vertex 4 is the more recent of these two drives, the V3 was a huge seller and with the move over to 20nm NAND, the creation of the Vertex 3.20 was made with scope that users of the Vertex 3 would see the update and move across to the better performing drive.
The other key element of the Vertex drives is value. In a market where competition is fierce, being able to bring top level performance down to mainstream prices is a huge factor in sales and this is what the new Vertex 450 is primarily aimed for. Since the acquisition of Indilinx, OCZ have been fitting their own proprietary controllers to their drives reducing the overall cost of the drives, which as we know is great news for the end user. The BF3-M10 controller that we see in use in the 450 is a slightly cut back version of that used on the Vector. Whilst it has a slightly lower clock speed, its clock generator has been optimised for performance and with the teaming of some 20nm NAND, OCZ have built the drive with Vector like specifications - but at a lower cost.
We put the 'Vector Lite' to the tests. Let's see how it stacks up against our collection of SSDs.
This of course leads us OCZ’s latest offering, the OCZ Vertex 450, which we’ll be reviewing today. The OCZ Vertex 450 is the newest SSD in OCZ’s lineup and for the most part is an update of sorts to the already successful Vertex 4. On the controller side, OCZ has moved away from their short lived time with the Marvell hardware based Indilinx Everest 2 controller in favor of the completely in house designed Indilinx Barefoot 3 controller...
OCZ’s Vertex line of solid state drives have been around for a while and we have reviewed many different Vertex drives over the past few years. If you remember back in 2011 OCZ acquired Indilinx and with the acquisition they were able to create an SSD controller completely in-house. The controller was the Barefoot 3 and it was featured on OCZ’s Vector solid state drive that we reviewed earlier this year. Well OCZ is back with a new drive in their Vertex 450. It will feature the same Barefoot 3 controller, and new 20nm MLC NAND instead of the 25nm that was being used on the Vector. Today we are taking a look at the 128GB version of the Vertex 450 that features sequential read and write speeds of 525 MB/s and 290 MB/s respectively. Not only that OCZ has sent us two drives so we can show you just how fast these drives are when put in a RAID array together. Read on as we take a look…
We take a look at the faster next-gen 2.5” SSD on the market, and the results are astounding...
OCZ technology has launched a new model to their venerable Vertex lineup of Solid State Drives. Known for providing the best performance available for gamers, the Vertex line, other than the last couple of years has relied on use of LSI’s SandForce controllers. The Vertex 4 returns to its roots however, offering an Indilinx controller, sort of.
Der Begriff Vertex wird in der Regel aus dem lateinischen mit "Knoten" oder "Wendepunkt" übersetzt, hat OCZ sich davon inspirieren lassen? möglich wäre es zumindest, umso mehr wenn wir uns vor Augen halten, dass die neue Vertex 4 SSD nicht mehr von einem Controller aus dem Hause Sandforce gesteuert wird, sondern einen Indilinx Everest 2 Aufkleber besitzt. Wir betonen Aufkleber ganz bewusst, denn der Controller stammt de facto von Marvell und stellt den Nachfolger der äußerst bewährten 88SS9174 Baureihe dar. Der neue Marvell 88SS9187 stellt die mittlerweile dritte SSD-Controller Generation von Marvell dar und bringt einige Neuerungen aufs Tablett. Zum einen wäre der recht üppig bemessene Cache Speicher von bis zu 1GB DDR3 RAM zu erwähnen, zum anderen sollen Fehlerkorrektur und ECC-Engine eine Optimierung erhalten haben. Darüber hinaus will Marvell mit dem neuen Controller sowohl Enterprise- als auch mobile Geräte adressieren und stellt in den Raum, dass der 88SS9187 im Aktiv- und Standby-Modus die niedrigste Energieaufnahme aller derzeit verfügbaren SATA-Controller der 6-GBit/s-Klasse besitzen soll.
Als weitere Premiere fällt auch das Stichwort Ndurance 2.0, was die Lebensdauer der Nand Flashchips verlängern soll. Realisiert wird dies über entsprechend programmierte Lese-Algorithmen. Garniert wird das höchst interessante Paket durch eine 5-jährige Garantiezeit und einen bereits jetzt knapp unter 150 € angesiedeltes Preisgefüge. Grund genug also die neue Vertex 4 SSD intensiv auf ihre Nehmerqualitäten hin zu überprüfen. Die Resultate unsere 14-tägigen Praxis-Tests könnt ihr im nun folgenden Review nachlesen, dazu wünschen wir euch jetzt viel Vergnügen
OCZ increased the Vertex 4 performance with a number of small improvements that add up to sizable increases.
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