Testseek.com have collected 171 expert reviews of the OCZ 2.5 inch Vector 180 Series SATA600 and the average rating is 84%. Scroll down and see all reviews for OCZ 2.5 inch Vector 180 Series SATA600.
March 2015
(84%)
171 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(90%)
50 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
Strong Performance
5 Year Warranty
Solid Bundle
OCZ Guru Utility
Great reliability features with a market-leading warranty program
Good performance during our mixed-workloads
Competitively priced
Well Priced
High Quality Components
Sturdy construction
Available in 120GB
240GB
480GB and 960GB capacities
Endurance rated at 50GB/day for 5 years
Good sequential and random read and write performance
Performs equally well with compressible and incompressible data
SATA 6Gb/s interface
Toggle Mode MLC N
Outstanding Mixed Workload Performance
No Loss In Performance With Incompressible Data
Minimal Performance Drop Off as Drive Fills
PFMPower Loss Protection Prevents Data Loss And Drive Failure
Rated for 50GB/Day of Host Writes for 5Years
MTBF 2
300
0
Build Quality (Toshiba A19nm NAND Flash)
Excellent Overall Performance
Sustained Performance (SNIA Tests)
Power Failure Management Plus (PFM+) Technology
OCZ 5-Year ShieldPlus Warranty
OCZ SSD Guru Software
Bundle
Price (For Some)
Fast sequential-write speeds
And competitive overall performance
Slick SSD Guru software
Slightly cheaper than competing Samsung SSD 850 EVO
Available in higher top capacity than previous Vector drive
The OCZ Vector 180 protects data in case of power loss and includes hassle-free consumer support as well as a long warranty
Added protection against power outages
High synthetic write performance
7 mm thin—ultrabook compatible
5 year warranty
New OCZ SSD Guru Software available
Acronis cloning software included
Up to 960GB of storage capacity option
PFMprotection
Low idle power consumption
ShieldPlus
SSD Guru is easy to use and visually pleasing
Good price to performance ratio
Low idle
Nice aspect
Performance
Accessories
OCZ Guru software
Good performance
Power Failure Management Plus feature
ShieldPlus 5-year warranty
Looks great
The editors didn't like
Trailed Samsung 850 Slightly
Poor performance during our 2MB traces
Random write performance at low queue depths could be better
Does not support DEVSLP
Does not support TCG Opal or eDrive encryption
Barefoot 3 Showing Its Age
With Performance Becoming Somewhat Pedestrian
Lack of Support for DevSleep
TCG Opal and eDrive
OCZ-made AMD Radeon R7 SSD performs almost as well
But costs less
A few other flagship drives offer double the warranty period
The drive's speed and durability rating trail behind high-end SSDs on the market. There are no data security or performance enhancement features
Competing drives have better performance
Price/performance
And lower price/GB
In-flight data not protected by power outage protection
Performance is not as fast as the competitors
Lacking eDrive and Opal support
Indilinx Barefoot 3 controller is starting to show its age
Good performance, Power Failure Management Plus feature, ShieldPlus 5-year warranty, Looks great
Does not support DevSleep or low power states, so higher power consumption
Talking about ease of mind this drive also comes with OCZ's ShieldPlus 5-year warranty. This means with no proof of purchase OCZ will ship you a new drive up front and cover the shipping on it as well. Of course this is only available to US and EU custome...
Published: 2015-05-12, Author: Steven , review by: techspot.com
Abstract: It's been quite some time since our last SSD roundup and we hadn't seen much need for one until recently. SSD technology grew stale after saturating the SATA 6Gb/s bus, bringing mostly minor improvements in recent memory and making up for it with price cu...
Wrapping things up in this review, we can see that the Vector is a solid performer, but not at the top for a lot of the benchmarks we run. This drive though is no slouch. To be fair, most users would be hard pressed to know it tested a bit slower withou...
Well Priced, High Quality Components, Sturdy construction
Toshiba has worked hard at reviving the OCZ brand and it shows. The construction of the OCZ Vector 180 is impressive. Toshiba has used their high quality components throughout and will no doubt give years of reliable service. The housing's cast and stampe...
When OCZ first unveiled the Vector series, it was almost a make it or break it type of product that was designed to help keep the company afloat. After getting hit hard in the reputation department with the SandForce fiasco a couple years prior and execut...
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Published: 2015-03-31, Author: Kristian , review by: anandtech.com
From a technological standpoint, the Vector 180 is the most interesting Barefoot 3 based SSD that we have seen in a while. With partial power loss protection (PFM+) and a new 960GB capacity, it's able to bring something new to the now two and a half year...
Published: 2015-03-25, Author: Joe , review by: legitreviews.com
For the OCZ Vector 180 480 GB drive (1 GB byte = 1,000,000,000 bytes), when formatted in Windows offers up 447 GiB (1 GiB = 1,073,741,824 bytes) available the user which means it has a fair amount of spare area set aside for maintenance and drive enduranc...
Abstract: OCZ has been on a fairly steady release track since their aquisition by Toshiba . Having previously pared down their product lines, taking a minimalist approach, the other half of that cycle has taken place with releases like the OCZ AMD Radeon R7 . Today...
Strong Performance, 5 Year Warranty, Solid Bundle, OCZ Guru Utility
Trailed Samsung 850 Slightly
OCZ Vector 180 Series Solid State Drives -- Find Them At AmazonThere will be four drives in OCZ's initial Vector 180 series line-up, ranging in capacity from 120GB on up to 960GB. Pricing for the drives is as follows:1280GB - $89.99 ($0.75 / GB)240GB - $1...
The Vector 180 is exactly what one might expect from a new OCZ SSD. It combines the company's proprietary Barefoot 3 controller with the latest NAND from parent company Toshiba. Adopting new flash doesn't make for a terribly exciting narrative, but it's ...
