OCIA.net, HotHardware.com, Pc Perspective, HardwareHeaven.com, SSD Review, and TweakTown published their articles on the new OCZ Vertex 3 SSD



OCZ Technology Vertex 3 Solid State Drive Performance Preview @ OCIA.net

OCIA.net has posted their preview of the OCZ Technology Vertex 3 Solid State Drive. Below is a direct quote from the preview.

What we didn't know at the time (although assumed all along) was that OCZ was also working on consumer level Vertex 3 drives based on a brand new SandForce controller, the SF-2281. The next-generation SandForce controller in OCZ's Vertex 3 consumer grade drive operates across the SATA 6 Gbps interface and is reportedly good for up to 550MB/s read, 525MB/s write at up to 60K IOPS 4k Write. Today we will be taking a look at a beta engineering sample of the new consumer grade Vertex 3 SSD in a 240GB capacity.

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OCZ Vertex 3 SandForce SF-2000 Based SSD Preview @ HotHardware.com

Just last week, we offered a glimpse of what OCZ has in store for the enterprise SSD market with a preview of the Vertex 3 Pro. Without giving away all of the juicy details, the Vertex 3 Pro essentially buried the competition and offered performance that was significantly better than any current-gen solid state drive. As we mentioned though, the Vertex 3 Pro is an enterprise-class drive, and as such, it sports a price tag outside of the realm of your typical PC enthusiast. OCZ did hint that the "non-Pro" version of the Vertex 3 was coming soon, however, and stated that it would be priced "significantly lower".

Well, here we are, just one week later and we've already got a beta Vertex 3 in hand for some initial testing...

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OCZ Technology Vertex 3 SandForce 2281 240GB SATA 6G SSD Review

Another week, and another Vertex 3 release from OCZ! This time we take a look at the consumer oriented model, with more usable space and a promise of comparable performance. How will this new model really stack up against the enterprise-grade workhorse?

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OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD Review @ HardwareHeaven.com

Just about a year ago OCZ released their latest high performance SATA SSD, the Vertex 2 which was based on SandForce's latest controller. That drive was a huge success, surpassing the performance of its main competitor at the time, drives based on Indilinx controllers. Today we see the successor to that product launch, the Vertex 3 which runs on SandForce's latest controller and we have a 240GB sample on our test bench to find out how it compares to products currently on the market in a selection of real world and synthetic tests.

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OCZ Vertex 3 Pre-Release SATA 3 SSD Review - RAID 0 Becomes Pointless

A quick search on the internet defines Goliath as being of colossal power or achievement. As much as we are going to introduce you to a new age in solid state drives with this pre-release review of the OCZ Vertex 240GB SATA 3 SSD, the name is as suitable for SandForce as it is for this drive itself. Quite frankly, the results pulled from this SSD were completely unexpected.

The Vertex 3 blew away all of our SSD RAID configuration benchmarks as well as OCZ' own RevoDrive and fared just behind the RevoDrive x2. The reasoning is simple and great news for SSD enthusiasts everywhere; 4KB random performance has hit the sky.

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OCZ Technology Vertex 3 (SF-2200) Solid State Drive Preview

Yesterday we looked at the Corsair Performance 3, the first retail next generation Marvell - BKK2 controlled SSD to hit our lab. Today we have the Performance 3's, and for that matter every other new consumer SSD's main competitor in house; the OCZ Technology Vertex 3. OCZ Technology leads all other manufacturers in SSD development. The company has put forth a vast amount of resources in this market and even all but abandoned their memory products that put OCZ on the map. The payoff has been a near two year domination of the SSD market with sales that dwarf all other manufacturers. OCZ is at this point the SSD manufacturer in which all others strive to be.

SandForce is announcing two new consumer class controllers. There's the SF-2200, a high end consumer controller with 16 data lanes (8 accessible at one time) in a 400-TFBGA package capable of reading data at 550MB/s and writing data at 525MB/s. The other one is the new mainstream SF-2100 which has up to 8 data lanes and uses a 256-TFBGA package. SandForce didn't give out a lot of information on the new 2100, but we've working on getting more information. We'll give you a full breakdown on the new controllers tomorrow since not all of the information relates to the Vertex 3. Yes, today is all about the OCZ Technology Vertex 3. A few websites previewed the Vertex 3 PRO a few days ago, but the PRO model is an enterprise part that costs considerably more than the consumer drive we are looking at today.

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