With the ARC 100, OCZ has succeeded to bring another affordable SSD product on the market, which is utilizing the Barefoot 3 M10 controller, the latest Toshiba A19nm MLC NAND and while it does not break records, it is very durable as it has been demonstrated before by some other review websites.

Discussing about endurance, OCZ rates this product for about 20GB/day of host writes, during a period of 3 years.

As with all OCZ SSDs, we have also performed the IOMETER consistency test, which tells us that the drive should perform optimally for a long time, without performance degradation:

Thanks to the OCZ’s ShieldPlus Warranty, a new ARC SSD of the same capacity will be shipped in advance to the customer and once the replacement is received, the user will also find a pre-paid return label inside the parcel for a free return to OCZ HQ.

The OCZ ARC 100 240GB variant can be purchased online for about 90 Euros, while the 480GB version is online for about 189 Euros. If we do not need a lot of storage capacity, we could always go for the 120GB which is available online for about 64 Euros.

OCZ ARC 100 240GB SSD is Recommended For:

We would like to thank again to OCZ for making this review possible!