so today I'll be doing a quick unboxing of a new SSD from ocz this is the vertex
250 gig now the specs for the vertex 2
50 gig 100 Gig 200 gig 60 gig 120 gig
and 240 gig it's available in a lot of
capacities are pretty much the same now the biggest difference between the
vertex 2 and the vertex 1 is that the vertex 2 uses the new sandforce
controller it uses the sf200 and the whole vertex 2 Series unlike sandforce
controllers from other manufacturers and unlike the agility 2 Series has a
special firmware tweak that allows it to get better performance in wrs basically
okay it's a high performance design mlc flash memory trim support raid
capability all of those pretty much go without saying these days and it
includes a 3 and 1 12 in SSD adapter for desktops that's pretty neat let's flip
around to the back see what ocz has to say for themselves here now this is the
trick read up to 285 megab per second and write up to 275 megab perss with
sustained rights up to 250 megab per second that's huge because the sandforce
controller actually allows mlc flash to
write more data than you are actually
writing to the dis now I'm going to explain what that means it's basically
compressing the data let's say you've got 10 gigs of data you're going to just
write to your drive it's compressing it on the Fly which means compared to the
older indeling controller it's quite a bit more complicated
but it means that maybe even though it's writing 10 gigs of data and then it'll
read off 10 gigs of data it might might only write 8 gigs of data so that means
a your SSD will last longer because you're using fewer right cycles and B it
will go faster because you're writing that 10 gigs of data to uh in only 8
gigs so it'll go 20% faster and I don't have a knife today but that's okay you
guys can live while I just uh cut this
open with a pen wow they've really improved the resiliency of their plastic
on the packaging compared to previous vertex series drives there we go it's
finally off okay let's get this opened up so see we had to look at the specs uh
oh well it opens at the top not the side how
Innovative okay okay here we go so they've updated their um their included
foamy packaging thing to uh have like a slot in the back where they've stuffed
in a 2 and 1/2 in to 3 and 1/2 in drive
adapter so there it is it looks like that uh I I don't remember if I did an
unboxing on this at some point or not but it's fairly straightforward you just
um here I'll just pull the drive out really quick so you just use the screws
on the bottom of the drive strap them in like this and then you attach this to
your case using the 3 and 1 12 in Drive Bay holes okay so let's have a look at
what else they've included also some uh mounting screws so four screws to attach
the SSD to the adapter and then four screws to mount the adapter in your case
thanks ocz then they've also got a warranty card here installation guide
and warranty info let's see how long is the warranty on this
one H 3 years there you go threeyear
warranty awesome let's get the drive opened up here caution content sensitive
to electrostatic discharge open only at a static free workstation ooh
okay well hopefully that won't be a problem for us
today that open up okay so it looks uh
just like the old vertex drives actually this is kind of funny they have changed
the shape of the sticker but they haven't changed the shape of the outline
for the sticker in the top of the drive so it's a square cutout with a rounded
sticker in it now also they've updated the label with two rather than just
vertex excellent Improvement there as well your warranty is void if this is
removed or broken so you can't take the drive apart and then let's have a look
so we got our 2 and 1/2 in mounting holes here we got our 2 and 1/2 in
mounting holes on the other side and then at the bottom we have more 2 and
1/2 in standard mounting holes so this will fit and almost any laptop or 2 and
1/2 in adapter or uh case that supports 2 and 1/2 in drives here is our part
number so it is the uh 2 VTX
series okay and then let me see what else do we have here oh yeah we've got
our SATA 2 power and SATA 2 data now these drives do still run off of SATA 2
rather than the new SATA 3 but the reality of it is SATA 3 wouldn't really
contribute anything because the maximum performance of SATA 2 is 300 megabit per
second or about wait no it isn't 1.5 3
gabit per second which comes out to roughly and this isn't quite right 300
megabytes per second so at 285 2 75 for reads and writs this drive is still not
bottlenecked by the satat 2 interface anyway thank you for checking out my
unboxing of the ocz vertex 2 SSD