OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SATA III 2.5" SSD Review

Storage/SSD by stefan @ 2012-03-12

The Vertex 3 2.5’’ SATA III 240GB SSD from OCZ is built around a SandForce SF-2200 series processor and succeeds to deliver very good transfer speeds, also dethroning all other products tested in the past. The only downside would be the price, considering that the 240GB variant can be found at online stores for about 400 Euros.

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Test Setup and Test Results Part I

Test Bench:

CPU : Intel I5 2500K Retail @ 4.8GHz , 1.3V

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U12P

Motherboard : ASRock P67 Extreme6

RAM : G.Skill Ripjaws F3-12800CL8D-4GBRM

Video : Sparkle X460 Calibre 1GB

Power Supply : Cooler Master 850W

HDD : Seagate Barracuda 320GB 7200.10

Case: Cooler Master ATCS 840

 

The OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD comes unformatted out of the box:

 

After the SSD has been formated NTFS, here is the total free space reported by Windows 7:

 

With the help of AIDA64, we can extract more information regarding the drive:

 

 

 

The Tests

 

HDTach Short Test

 

HDTach Long Test

 

 

CrystalMark HDD Test Suite

AIDA64 Disk Test Suite

PCMark05 HDD Test Suite

 

 

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