Testseek.com have collected 159 expert reviews of the OCZ 2.5 inch Vector 150 Series SATA600 and the average rating is 83%. Scroll down and see all reviews for OCZ 2.5 inch Vector 150 Series SATA600.
December 2013
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159 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
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183 Reviews
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The editors liked
Solidly constructed and proven SSD design
Increased performance over prior Vector
Reduced cost enabled by use of 19nm flash
The Vector's 7mm thickness allows greater mounting flexibility
Silky smooth operation as a system drive
Excellent sequential reading and writing performance
Even at very low queue depths
Outstanding performance in a workstation environment
Outstanding sustainable performance curve
Excellent 4K random writing
Good performance in real-world workloads
Great endurance
Sleek
Solid
And efficient build
Available in 120GB
240GB and 480GB capacities
Endurance rated at 50GB/day for 5 years
Excellent sequential read and write speeds
Good random read and write performance
Performs equally well with compressible and incompressible data
SATA 6Gb/s interf
Consistent Performance
Great Value
Warranty good for five years (or 50GB of writes a day)
Increased overprovisioning for more durability
Support for 256-bit encryption
The OCZ Vector 150 offers fast performance and includes a desktop adapter bracket as well as hard-drive-cloning software. The drive comes with a five-year warranty and now supports hardware encryption
Competitive Performance
High Endurance Rating
5 Year Warranty
7mm Z-Height
Bundled Cloning Software
Slimline design
Excellent incompressible data performance
AES256 Encryption
Improved durability
Solid performance
Better steady state performance than old Vector
Good MySQL enterprise 48 threads results
Acronis drive migration software included
7.5 mm thin—Ultrabook compatible
Supports TRIM
5-year warranty
Outstanding 559/534 MBps read/write speed with ATTO
Random 4K read/writes produced 88
299 IOPS – best tested!
Indilinx Barefoot 3 processor offers native TRIM support
Automatic AES256 data encryption
5Year OCZ product warranty support
Offered in 120/
Superb bundle
Fiveyear warranty
Topnotch performance
Extreme endurance.
Added 256bit AES hardware encryption improves security while 19nm MLC synchronous memory promises 150% more writes than 2012's original 25nmbased Vector.
The editors didn't like
Price (maybe see below)
Nothing to mention.
Top-tier pricing
Could perform better in smaller random transfer workloads
Trades capacity for greater endurance
Pricey
Competing drives consume less power when idle
Expensive on a per-gig basis
The Vector 150 doesn't outdo its predecessor in most categories
Including storage capacity
Pricing
And performance. The new drive doesn't offer anything new compared with other SSDs
Trailed the Samsung 840 In Most Tests
Relatively High MSRPs
Loss of capacity from 256GB to 240GB
Price premium
More expensive than comparable drives
Not as fast as other high-end drives (which are more expensive
Though)
Expensive enthusiastlevel product
OCZ Toolbox is bush league
Too expensive (just barely)
The Vector 150's performance is largely on par with last year's drive
Which wouldn't be an issue on its own
But it becomes one with OCZ's asking price of $1.00/GB or more.
Published: 2013-11-07, Author: Kristian , review by: anandtech.com
The Vector 150 is a logical successor for the Vector. It doesn't redefine SSD performance, yet OCZ has managed to add enough improvements to the Vector 150 to make it a different product. The first one is IO consistency. While the Vector had good performa...
Slimline design; Excellent incompressible data performance; AES256 Encryption; Improved durability
Loss of capacity from 256GB to 240GB; Price premium
A solid performer and alternative to SandForce based SSDs. Discuss in the Forum...
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Published: 2013-11-07, Author: Steven , review by: techspot.com
Added 256bit AES hardware encryption improves security while 19nm MLC synchronous memory promises 150% more writes than 2012's original 25nmbased Vector.
The Vector 150's performance is largely on par with last year's drive, which wouldn't be an issue on its own, but it becomes one with OCZ's asking price of $1.00/GB or more.
Performance-wise, little has changed about OCZ's Vector series over the last year. The new Vector 150 is generally slightly faster than the original, but it can be slower -- much slower in some cases. Meanwhile, despite boasting a higher sequential write...
As expected with the Barefoot 3 controller, the OCZ Vector 150 has great performance, however, we found power consumption ratings a bit under the weather....
We summarize storage performance with a single score derived by comparing each drive's performance to that of a common baseline: a painfully slow notebook hard drive. This index uses a subset of the performance data from our full test suite. We then mash...
Silky smooth operation as a system drive, Excellent sequential reading and writing performance, even at very low queue depths, Outstanding performance in a workstation environment, Outstanding sustainable performance curve, Excellent 4K random writing
Nothing to mention.
Let us summarise the most important positive and negative points belowPositiveSilky smooth operation as a system drive.Excellent sequential reading and writing performance, even at very low queue depths.Outstanding performance in a workstation environment...
Published: 2013-11-07, Author: Les , review by: thessdreview.com
The OCZ Vector features excellent performance, a five year warranty, solid build and accessories, as well as unexpected sustained performance not common in consumer SSDs....
Published: 2014-03-07, Author: Jonathan , review by: aphnetworks.com
Much like the consumer electronics and internet revolution of the early 2000's, the solid state drive revolution late in the last decade has brought about significant changes in the way we look at technology. In a short amount of time, traditional big boy...
Published: 2014-02-17, Author: Chris , review by: Bcchardware.com
Solid construction, Easy of setup, Image software for cloning and back up, 5 year warranty
Fell short of stated read and write speeds
In conclusion, I felt the OCZ Vector 150 performed quite well. It was very easy to setup and get going. Everything you needed to get going was provided. They even threw in a copy of Acronis True Image to make cloning your new drive that much easier. This ...
OCZ has been though its fair share of trials and tribulations lately but the Vector series has proven to be a ray of sunshine in an otherwise bleak outlook. The original Vector wowed us with its consistent performance, excellent staying power and a com...
