Hardware Canucks posted a review of the OCZ Agility 4 256GB SSD

With nearly every company trying to expand their SSD lineup, there has recently been a veritable explosion of value orientated drives for consumers to choose from. However, long before most manufacturers were paying any attention to this end of the market, OCZ were hard at work creating multiple options including the venerable Agility line. The products housed within the Agility range have never been considered the fastest around, nor were they the least expensive drives on the market. They did however strike that enviable balance of performance and price which made them appealing to a wide customer base.

With the introduction of the surprisingly budget friendly Vertex 4 SSDs, it was only a matter of time before OCZ turned their attention towards updating the aging Agilities. With the recent release of the Agility 4 256GB they hope to further blur the line between high performance and budget orientated models. To help do precisely that, the new Agility 4 actually uses the exact same Everest 2 controller found in the Vertex 4.

Of the many benefits to opting for Indilinx’s Everest 2 controller, the largest is its compressed file handling abilities. No matter how compressed the data, this controller won’t be subject to the performance drop-offs which characterize LSI SandForce’s first and second generation controllers. This situation was further augmented when the SF2281 controller was paired with ONFi 1 asynchronous NAND, as it was in the Agility 3. While the Agility 4 still does rely upon this same ONFi 1 NAND, the newer controller’s features should keep it from suffering a similar fate.

  OCZ Agility 4 256GB SSD Review