another SSD unboxing yes yes it is
however there is a very good reason for it this is the ocz vertex okay you've
heard this before but wait there's more
limited edition okay so this is a limited edition drive it is a 200
Gigabyte drive that I'm going to be unboxing today which seems like an odd
odd number for for an SSD because typically what we've seen in the past is
32 gig 64 gig 128 2 50 etc etc but no
this is a 200 gig it is a high performance design with mlc flash memory
I'll more on this in a minute trim support and raid capability but let's go
back to the back of this drive okay latest groundbreaking solid state taking
shape in the limited edition okay you can probably read that if you pause it
so I'll let you do that if you want to this is where this drive separates
itself from the crowd reads up to 270 megabytes per second totally
unexceptional WR up to 250 megabytes per
second we have not seen an mlc flash drive capable of anywhere near this kind
of a right speed with sustained rights up to 235 megabytes per second so that
means that there's a little bit of a trick this is not another indel linkx
based ocz vertex drive this is based on
an entirely new controller called
the if I could get the package off I'm
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
we've been eagerly anticipating the controllers from and it the initials are
S and F okay so if you if you know too
much about ssds in fact you can probably Google it all right let's get this thing
open here but the way that they achieve this high level of right performance is
through a compression algorithm that actually writes far less than you're
actually telling it to now that means that the controller on this drive is far
more complicated than an indel linkx controller but it is able to achieve a
high level of performance without expensive flash so it's a bit of a
tradeoff okay so it comes with an installation guide uh how to prepare
your drive before use more installation guide formatting and your limited
warranty which I believe is 3 years on this drive but it looks like it doesn't
say that here must say it's somewhere
yeah there it is threeyear warranty on this particular ocz product
so the vertex limited edition actually you know what I'm going to do something
unprecedented and I'm just going to kind of put this down and I'm going to let
the cameraman look at it for a second and I'm going to step out of the room
and go get another prop one moment I'll
be
back yeah I hope that was really interesting I'm back just closing the
door I wanted to compare it to the older
vertex okay so there we go basically it
looks almost the same you can see that the label is slightly shinier because
vertex is now shiny and limited edition is shiny they're both SATA 2 so that
means that we're not going to be moving beyond the approximately 270 megabyte
pers second overall bandwidth limitation of a SATA 2 controller they're the same
thickness so that means they're going to be compatible with pretty much 99% of
laptops out there they feature mounting holes on the sides as well as on the
bottoms of the drives the bottoms of these drives actually look uh pretty
much exactly the same you can see the part number is slightly different this
is a VTX L whereas the older ones are
just VTX and I think that's pretty much all
there is to say about it the vertex Le comes at a price premium you can see
that we've got a SATA 2 interface here SATA 2 power SATA 2 Data but you are
getting the fastest mlc performance on
the market today and that is why this is worth unboxing even though we're just
looking at another black SSD drive from
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