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okay so today on my video blog I'll be unboxing the ocz vertex series 60 gig

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drive now ocz has about a million and one different SSD drives but the vertex

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series was their first one to really take off because unlike the old J Micron

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based ones you don't get any stuttering issues with these because they do

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feature an indel linkx controller so what that means is that you always get

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the best performance possible from your SSD drive even when you're undergoing a

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lot of Random operations which were what the earlier ssds suffered on now there's

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a couple different versions of the vertex one of which is a turbo version

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and that's basically a slightly faster clocked indel linkx controller and then

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it also comes in a bunch of different capacities so I have the 60 gig one

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today now the 30 gig and the 60 gig drive both have a 64 Meg cache as

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opposed to the 128 Meg cache on the 128

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and the 250 gig drives and they also have slightly lower specs in terms of

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read and WR so the reads on this are up to 230 megabytes per second and up to

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135 megabytes per second for the rights now that is not actually the important

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thing for an SSD drive the important thing is something that you don't see on

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a spec sheet and that is the random

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write and random read performance so you'll have to check benchmarks for that

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because surprisingly they don't come expect for it but anyway let's find out

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what you get inside the box here so first of all you get an installation

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guide and warrant info so this has

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a I believe it's a 2year warranty could

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be a three-year warranty wow it doesn't even say how long the warranty is on oh

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oh one year one year warranty only okay well there we go 2 and 1 half in solid

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state drive one year warranty and then we open it up to find the drive itself

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embedded in a nice little foam there let's get it right side up so it comes

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in a little anti-static baggie okay so let's

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take the drive itself out now most of the indel link series or indel linkx

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controller drives on the market come with these kind of metallic uh casings

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but the ocz drives come with like a matte black finish on them that I

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actually really like so at the back of the drive you'll find a standard SATA

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power and SATA 2 Data there's a jumper

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there I believe that's only for Diagnostic purposes or it might take it

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back to SATA 1 compatibility not 100% sure but on the bottom of the drive

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you'll find four mounting holes so this is useful if you're using the vertex in

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laptop sort of configuration which is highly recommended because an SSD is the

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best thing you can do for your computer's performance it's better even

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than a RAM upgrade at a certain level or even CPU and then on the sides of the

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drive you've got 1 two three four more

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mounting adapters or mounting holes and you can use that to mount it either to

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an adapter or to a desktop configuration

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so thank you for checking out my unboxing oh oh no no no I almost forgot

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okay the biggest thing about the vertex series is that that they already support

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trim so trim is that feature of Windows 7 that allows you to not have the

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performance degradation that you see with almost every other SSD drive on the

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market so it means that your drive always performs at about 99% of new

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performance you need to make sure you update to the latest firmware but if you

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get a Vertex drive you do get trim support thank you for checking out my

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video blog on the vertex 60 gig