okay so today on my video blog I'll be unboxing the ocz vertex series 60 gig
drive now ocz has about a million and one different SSD drives but the vertex
series was their first one to really take off because unlike the old J Micron
based ones you don't get any stuttering issues with these because they do
feature an indel linkx controller so what that means is that you always get
the best performance possible from your SSD drive even when you're undergoing a
lot of Random operations which were what the earlier ssds suffered on now there's
a couple different versions of the vertex one of which is a turbo version
and that's basically a slightly faster clocked indel linkx controller and then
it also comes in a bunch of different capacities so I have the 60 gig one
today now the 30 gig and the 60 gig drive both have a 64 Meg cache as
opposed to the 128 Meg cache on the 128
and the 250 gig drives and they also have slightly lower specs in terms of
read and WR so the reads on this are up to 230 megabytes per second and up to
135 megabytes per second for the rights now that is not actually the important
thing for an SSD drive the important thing is something that you don't see on
a spec sheet and that is the random
write and random read performance so you'll have to check benchmarks for that
because surprisingly they don't come expect for it but anyway let's find out
what you get inside the box here so first of all you get an installation
guide and warrant info so this has
a I believe it's a 2year warranty could
be a three-year warranty wow it doesn't even say how long the warranty is on oh
oh one year one year warranty only okay well there we go 2 and 1 half in solid
state drive one year warranty and then we open it up to find the drive itself
embedded in a nice little foam there let's get it right side up so it comes
in a little anti-static baggie okay so let's
take the drive itself out now most of the indel link series or indel linkx
controller drives on the market come with these kind of metallic uh casings
but the ocz drives come with like a matte black finish on them that I
actually really like so at the back of the drive you'll find a standard SATA
power and SATA 2 Data there's a jumper
there I believe that's only for Diagnostic purposes or it might take it
back to SATA 1 compatibility not 100% sure but on the bottom of the drive
you'll find four mounting holes so this is useful if you're using the vertex in
laptop sort of configuration which is highly recommended because an SSD is the
best thing you can do for your computer's performance it's better even
than a RAM upgrade at a certain level or even CPU and then on the sides of the
drive you've got 1 two three four more
mounting adapters or mounting holes and you can use that to mount it either to
an adapter or to a desktop configuration
so thank you for checking out my unboxing oh oh no no no I almost forgot
okay the biggest thing about the vertex series is that that they already support
trim so trim is that feature of Windows 7 that allows you to not have the
performance degradation that you see with almost every other SSD drive on the
market so it means that your drive always performs at about 99% of new
performance you need to make sure you update to the latest firmware but if you
get a Vertex drive you do get trim support thank you for checking out my
video blog on the vertex 60 gig