Vertex 4 Review – In our experience in reviewing SSDs over the last year or so, OCZ drives have been among the best. That may not be what you often read on various customer review sections at online stores and forums and Reddit, but personally, throughout the half-dozen-or-so OCZ drives we’ve reviewed, they have been excellent performers and as reliable as you’d want (BSOD error notwithstanding). And the price is almost always in line with the competition, if not better.

But even if our experience reflects well on OCZ, they have a reputation to keep, so it’s not that shocking that they are moving away from what has been seemingly a rough road with the SandForce 2000 series controller. Although it has thus far been the fastest SATA-3 SSD controller overall, they don’t seem to make for the most reliable SSDs, at least according to the negative customer reviews out there. In fact, you could conclude that a lot of the negative feedback OCZ SSDs have received on these shopping sites has more to do with being the first (and by far highest selling) SandForce 2000 drives out there.