WEBVTT 00:00:01.040 --> 00:00:06.440 another SSD unboxing yes yes it is 00:00:04.839 --> 00:00:13.480 however there is a very good reason for it this is the ocz vertex okay you've 00:00:10.320 --> 00:00:16.000 heard this before but wait there's more 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:20.000 limited edition okay so this is a limited edition drive it is a 200 00:00:18.680 --> 00:00:24.920 Gigabyte drive that I'm going to be unboxing today which seems like an odd 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:31.720 odd number for for an SSD because typically what we've seen in the past is 00:00:27.199 --> 00:00:33.680 32 gig 64 gig 128 2 50 etc etc but no 00:00:31.720 --> 00:00:38.200 this is a 200 gig it is a high performance design with mlc flash memory 00:00:36.360 --> 00:00:43.079 I'll more on this in a minute trim support and raid capability but let's go 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:46.879 back to the back of this drive okay latest groundbreaking solid state taking 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:51.559 shape in the limited edition okay you can probably read that if you pause it 00:00:49.199 --> 00:00:56.120 so I'll let you do that if you want to this is where this drive separates 00:00:54.000 --> 00:01:02.160 itself from the crowd reads up to 270 megabytes per second totally 00:00:57.559 --> 00:01:05.040 unexceptional WR up to 250 megabytes per 00:01:02.160 --> 00:01:10.600 second we have not seen an mlc flash drive capable of anywhere near this kind 00:01:07.880 --> 00:01:15.479 of a right speed with sustained rights up to 235 megabytes per second so that 00:01:13.720 --> 00:01:21.400 means that there's a little bit of a trick this is not another indel linkx 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:25.680 based ocz vertex drive this is based on 00:01:21.400 --> 00:01:28.880 an entirely new controller called 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:30.360 the if I could get the package off I'm 00:01:28.880 --> 00:01:36.640 actually not sure if I'm allowed to say exactly what it is but I'll say that it's made by a different vendor one that 00:01:34.399 --> 00:01:42.680 we've been eagerly anticipating the controllers from and it the initials are 00:01:39.240 --> 00:01:44.439 S and F okay so if you if you know too 00:01:42.680 --> 00:01:49.320 much about ssds in fact you can probably Google it all right let's get this thing 00:01:46.719 --> 00:01:54.280 open here but the way that they achieve this high level of right performance is 00:01:52.320 --> 00:01:59.439 through a compression algorithm that actually writes far less than you're 00:01:57.039 --> 00:02:03.399 actually telling it to now that means that the controller on this drive is far 00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:07.920 more complicated than an indel linkx controller but it is able to achieve a 00:02:06.320 --> 00:02:11.560 high level of performance without expensive flash so it's a bit of a 00:02:09.560 --> 00:02:16.000 tradeoff okay so it comes with an installation guide uh how to prepare 00:02:13.680 --> 00:02:20.480 your drive before use more installation guide formatting and your limited 00:02:18.319 --> 00:02:25.640 warranty which I believe is 3 years on this drive but it looks like it doesn't 00:02:22.440 --> 00:02:27.480 say that here must say it's somewhere 00:02:25.640 --> 00:02:33.319 yeah there it is threeyear warranty on this particular ocz product 00:02:30.440 --> 00:02:37.480 so the vertex limited edition actually you know what I'm going to do something 00:02:35.560 --> 00:02:41.519 unprecedented and I'm just going to kind of put this down and I'm going to let 00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:46.440 the cameraman look at it for a second and I'm going to step out of the room 00:02:43.159 --> 00:02:48.720 and go get another prop one moment I'll 00:02:46.440 --> 00:02:48.720 be 00:02:55.200 --> 00:03:02.920 back yeah I hope that was really interesting I'm back just closing the 00:02:59.640 --> 00:03:06.159 door I wanted to compare it to the older 00:03:02.920 --> 00:03:08.400 vertex okay so there we go basically it 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:13.200 looks almost the same you can see that the label is slightly shinier because 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:17.159 vertex is now shiny and limited edition is shiny they're both SATA 2 so that 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:22.799 means that we're not going to be moving beyond the approximately 270 megabyte 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:26.599 pers second overall bandwidth limitation of a SATA 2 controller they're the same 00:03:25.480 --> 00:03:31.840 thickness so that means they're going to be compatible with pretty much 99% of 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:37.120 laptops out there they feature mounting holes on the sides as well as on the 00:03:34.760 --> 00:03:41.400 bottoms of the drives the bottoms of these drives actually look uh pretty 00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:45.959 much exactly the same you can see the part number is slightly different this 00:03:42.760 --> 00:03:47.959 is a VTX L whereas the older ones are 00:03:45.959 --> 00:03:52.480 just VTX and I think that's pretty much all 00:03:50.280 --> 00:03:56.439 there is to say about it the vertex Le comes at a price premium you can see 00:03:54.599 --> 00:04:02.560 that we've got a SATA 2 interface here SATA 2 power SATA 2 Data but you are 00:03:59.319 --> 00:04:05.400 getting the fastest mlc performance on 00:04:02.560 --> 00:04:10.319 the market today and that is why this is worth unboxing even though we're just 00:04:07.159 --> 00:04:13.760 looking at another black SSD drive from 00:04:10.319 --> 00:04:16.760 ocz thank you for checking out my video 00:04:13.760 --> 00:04:16.760 blog