Testseek.com have collected 94 expert reviews of the OCZ 2.5 inch Octane Series SATA600 and the average rating is 80%. Scroll down and see all reviews for OCZ 2.5 inch Octane Series SATA600.
December 2011
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Extremely low latency
Beating Intel in most areas
Outstanding IOPS performance
Unseating SandForce (and Intel) in most areas
Available 1TB capacity ($$$)
Strong Read Performance
Fast boot times
Competitive Pricing
Consistent performance with different data types
Very good performance.
Silky smooth operation as a system drive
Excellent sequential reading and writing performance
Very good 4K random I/O performance at low queue depths
SATA 6Gbps support
TRIM support under Windows 7
Lightning fast access times
Completely silent
The OCZ Octane SSD offers a large amount of storage at a relatively low price. The drive supports SATA 3 (6Gbps)
Performs very well
Has up to 1TB of storage space
And works with all popular platforms
Including Windows
Mac OS
And Linux
Impressive 542/356 MBps read/write transfer speeds
Automatic AES data encryption
Indilinx Everest SSD processor supports TRIM garbage collection
Some cache tuning needed for better handling of mixed readwrite workloads
Some compatibility issues noted with nonnative chipsets (see below)
Write speeds below SansForce-based drives
Lower capacities have lower write performance
Expensive. Not routinely faster than competing drives. Has trouble with high-queue-depth writes
Writing speeds do not scale very well when queue depths rise.
The OCZ Octane SSD is comparatively slower in terms of data transfer speed than other SATA 3-based solid-state drives. The drive is significantly more expensive than traditional hard drives of the same capacity
Tieing up a 24-page roundup in a few lines isn’t easy, especially as the cost of flash memory is currently dropping, meaning that the price of 120 to 128 GB SSDs is changing almost daily, with some manufacturers responding faster than others. Pricing i...
It was nice to test something new in the form of OCZ Octane SSD, as the majority of SSDs entering our labs on a daily basis are all powered by the SandForce controller and only vary in the type of NAND flash being used. The Octane series however is an ...
I know that many are going to balk at the price of this SSD, but once you get past that its all good and you can focus on what it offers. Storage space is something we all need more and more of everyday, and yes SSD technology is bleeding edge not yesterd...
Without a doubt the OCZ Octane is a fast SSD, but is it the fastest? Well the short answer is no. That said, we do not believe the Octane needs to be the fastest SSD on the planet to be a success. Rather OCZ need to focus on creating a stable and relia...
Abstract: Earlier this year OCZ acquired Indilinx, one of the first SSD controller makers to really make a splash in the enthusiast community. Some months later, OCZ debuted its first drive based on an Indilinx design: The Octane series of SSDs. Based on OCZ's i...
Published: 2012-02-27, Author: Matthew , review by: pcmag.com
Very good performance.
Expensive. Not routinely faster than competing drives. Has trouble with high-queue-depth writes
The OCZ Octane (512GB) solid-state drive marks the reunion of OCZ and Indilinx, and is a fine performer in many situations—if not during intense writing tasks....
IMPORTANT: Although the rating and final score mentioned in this conclusion are made to be as objective as possible, please be advised that every author perceives these factors differently at various points in time. While we each do our best to ensure...
The OCZ Octane cannot blow you away with its performance. It is inferior to the latest SandForce- and Marvell-based SSDs across most of real-life tests. The synthetic benchmarks provide the explanation: the Octane is too slow at random-address operati...
The OCZ Octane has been out for a couple of months now. We haven't seen any reports of widespread issues with it, which is good news. However, there are fewer than 10 user reviews of Octane SSDs on Newegg, suggesting that the number of units in the wild—...
While we'd hoped for a return to form for Indilinx, its new Everest drive controller lags behind the competition when it comes to performance. The new v1.13 firmware sees the OCZ Octane 512GB deliver sequential and random speeds notably slower than those...
