Testseek.com have collected 139 expert reviews of the OCZ 2.5 inch Vertex 2 Series SATA300 and the average rating is 89%. Scroll down and see all reviews for OCZ 2.5 inch Vertex 2 Series SATA300.
August 2010
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Excellent performance
Good price (often on sale too)
Included 3.5" mounting bracket
Real world performance is very impressive
Custom firmware developed to optimize performance
28% over-provisioning is good for performance and longevity
TRIM support
3-year warranty
Competitively priced when compared to similar SandForce based SSDs
50GB seems like a better capacity for a boot drive than many of the lower choices
It has amazingly fast random write times
Silky smooth operation as a system drive and completely stable
Outstanding reading and writing performance
Outstanding 4K random I/O performance
Excellent multitasking potential
TRIM support under Windows 7
Lightning fast access times
Completely
Good performance
3.5-inch form factor
Blazing fast. Exclusive highIOPS firmware. Capacities up to 480GB.
As we started to mention at the beginning of this review, Crucial’s RealSSD C300 has been plagued with several different post-launch firmware issues, one of them being a slim chance of the drive reaching a nearly “bricked” state under certain usage sc...
SandForce has come a long way in a very short period of time. The current version of the SF-1200 firmware is deemed production worthy and we should see the first Agility 2 and Vertex 2 drives show up at etailers in the next week or so. The drives have don...
TRIM support, Good sequential read and write, Great Depth 32 Que 4k Reads and Writes, New SandleForce Controller looks good!, 3 year warranty
Price Vs Storage Capacity
Performance wise the OCZ Vertex 2 does an excellent job of satisfying our need for speed. Price wise we aren't ready to throw our endorsement completely behind any SSD at this time. With a $400(ish) price tag and formatted capacity of around 93GB that...
Abstract: It is hard to believe that almost two years has passed since we first rounded-up some of the first solid state drive offerings for the PC. Since that time, the landscape has changed dramatically. Capacities have increased somewhat, but performance has ...
Silky smooth operation as a system drive and completely stable, Outstanding reading and writing performance, Outstanding 4K random I/O performance, Excellent multitasking potential, TRIM support under Windows 7, Lightning fast access times, Completely
Expensive with high cost per GB of user storage.
Let us summarise the most important positive and negative points belowThe main positive pointsThe OCZ Vertex 2 series drives are good in fact, extremely good. Reading and writing access times are lightning fast and applications load in an instant, making...
Several manufacturers are jumping on the SandForce bandwagon, and we can't help but wonder what will happen to the Indilinx-based drives. Are they destined for the mainstream sector? It's hard to say because they are still very fast drives, making any ...
Abstract: With the right workload, SandForce's SF-1200 storage controller has enormous potential. All three of the SF-1200-based drives we tested offer solid sequential throughput and very fast random access times across a range of transfer sizes. The SF-1200 proved particularly adept at handling random writes with larger transfer sizes, and..
Abstract: Today we have a quick preview of the OCZ Vertex 2 SSD that is currently breezing its way through our SSD testing benchmarks. Sure, hexa-core Gulftown and Thuban CPUs are all the current rage, and graphics cards like the Radeon HD 5870 and GeForce GTX 4...
