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.