Testseek.com have collected 130 expert reviews of the OCZ 2.5 inch Agility 3 Series SATA600 and the average rating is 80%. Scroll down and see all reviews for OCZ 2.5 inch Agility 3 Series SATA600.
June 2011
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The editors liked
IOPS scaling close to that of the faster Vertex 3
Asynchronous flash makes it fasterthan Vertex 3 in some workload scenarios
Lower cost
Price
Availability
Available in 60GB
120GB and 240GB capacities
Excellent sequential read and write speeds
SATA 6Gb/s interface
Supports TRIM
SMART and NCQ
3 year warranty
Reasonably priced
Good performance – MB/s Read and MB/s Write
The OCZ Agility 3 solid-state drive supports SATA 6Gbps and offers fast performance. The drive works in any SATA-based storage application and is relatively affordable
Nearly as fast as other SF2281 drives
Cheaper.
Delivers nearly 71K IOMeter IOPS performance
Outstanding 557/524 MBps read/write speed with ATTO
TCG OPAL security with 256bit AES encryption
SandForce SF2281 processor supports TRIM
SMART
And RAISE
DuraWrite technology extends NAND lifetime
Toplevel enthusiast operational I/O performance
3Year OCZ product warranty support
60/120/240GB highspeed SSD storage capacities
Lightweig
Good performance
SATA 6 Gbps support
Nice looking
Rugged metal case
3.5" adapter included
Great performance
Price compared to the Vertex 3
The editors didn't like
IOPS at lower queue depths outpaced by Intel 320 Series
Asynchronous flash makes it slowerthan vertex 3 in some workload scenarios
Street price likely to be on the high side (see below)
Speed
Compatibility problems with some motherboards
Considerably slower with incompressible data
Does not include a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter bracket
Low results with incompressible data
The OCZ Agility 3
Though fast
Is noticeably slower than other SATA 6Gbps SSDs without being proportionaly cheaper. It's capped at only 240GB
Takes a long time to format
And doesn't come with a drive bay converter to fit in a place of a 3.5-inch hard d
Published: 2013-01-06, Author: Andrew , review by: tomshardware.com
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Speed, Compatibility problems with some motherboards
Despite having some initial compatibility problems with my Lenovo Thinkpad T61, OCZ Agility 3 proved to be quite a good SSD in its price-range. Performance was bit disappointing considering the numbers OCZ claimed it to be able, but then again in real...
Overall, the OCZ Agility 3 120GB SSD performed admirably. It scored very well in 4K reads and writes which means as long as you aren't copying large movies or entire music collections around all day, you aren't really going to see much of a difference bet...
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Sadly, the OCZ Agility 3 240GB doesn't deliver on its claim of offering similar performance to a Vertex 3 for much less cash. While it's cheaper than the Vertex 3, its performance presents serious pitfalls, which are brought about by the use of asynchrono...
