OCZ Vertex 450 256GB SATA III 2.5'' SSD Review

Storage/SSD by stefan @ 2013-10-03

The Vertex 450 SSD was built with an optimal price/performance ratio in mind and features a derivative of the Indilinx Barefoot 3 controller (M10), with a lower clock speed and an optimized clock generator; the 450 also features 20nm process NAND flash which is purchased and packaged by OCZ itself in order to bring the prices further down.

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Test Setup and Extra Info

Test Bench:

CPU : Intel I5 3750K Retail @ 4.7GHz

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14

Motherboard : ASRock Z77 Extreme6

RAM :GeIL PC3-17000 2133MHz 8GB EVO Leggera

Video : Sparkle X560 Calibre

Power Supply : Cooler Master 850W

HDD : Seagate Barracuda 320GB 7200.10

Case: Cooler Master ATCS 840

 

The OCZ Vertex 450 256GB 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:

 

 

 

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