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
