OCC has published a review on the OCZ Agility 4 256GB

History has shown that the solid state drive has had a profound impact on the end user. Drastically reduced access times and much faster read/write throughput have been benefits to users willing to make that jump from a traditional spindle drive to a NAND-based solution. OCZ has led the way through several iterations of it popular Vertex and Agility lineup, with the former the high end offering and the Agility targeted at the mainstream. Version four for each drive maintains this status quo with the Agility 4 targeted for use by the mainstream user. As such OCZ has targeted both of the impediments to SSD adoption in both capacity and cost. Priced at $189, the Agility 4 256GB delivers capacity and a price per GB of less than 75 cents. Not bad at all when you look at just strictly the price point. Having already looked at several drives based on OCZ's own Indilinx Everest 2 controller, including the OCZ Vertex 4 and OCZ Octane, it has been shown that OCZ's acquisition of Indilinx has paid dividends.

The feature set of the Everest 2 platform include a SATA 6Gb/s interface, advanced ECC engine, superior NAND flexibility for use with 2Xnm Asynchronous Multi-Level Cell NAND from different suppliers, a three-year warranty, NDurance 2.0 technology featuring Reduced Write Amplification without Compression, Advanced Multi-Level ECC, Adaptive NAND Flash Management, TRIM support, Static and Dynamic wear leveling, and Redundant NAND Array (RNA) Technology. The Agility 4 comes in 64GB, 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB capacities, with pricing ranging from $85 to $379 depending on the capacity. Performance wise the OCZ Agility 4 is rated to deliver sequential read speeds of up to 420MB/s with sequential writes of up to 410MB/s and random 4K read/writes of 48,000/85,000 IOPS on the 256GB drive I will be looking at today. If the Agility 4 delivers on these marks it should prove to offer another drive in OCZ's product stack that hits the mark on price and performance. Let's see what it has to offer.

  OCZ Agility 4 256GB Review