you know it really wasn't that long ago that any SSD was going to cost you
hundreds of dollars but we finally gotten to the point where ssds are
reaching the sub $100 Mark so ocz has
their Onyx series of drives these feature an indel link Barefoot
controller just like their higher-end agility and vertex drives but the
difference is that it does have lower-end flash memory on it so that
means that in terms of your maximum performance you only get up to 125 mb
per second reads and 70 MB perss rights so it does suffer a little bit in terms
of performance compared to a more premium drive but the advantage is that
you're still going to absolutely smoke a
magnetic hard drive in terms of the um the random performance so for little
things like OS and you also have the option of course if you're worried about
those uh sustained reads and rights of raiding these drives up so this is a bit
of a this unboxing is meant to be a bit of a lead in to another episode I'm
going to be doing shortly if I can ever get the Box open then
um that would really be a major step towards having that happen for me here
oh okay never mind this doesn't sealed as badly as I thought okay so we just
pop that open there we are and we open up the drive so I've actually got eight
of these and I'm going to be running them all on a RAID controller to see
what kind of numbers we can get if we team up a bunch of entry level drives uh
on a RAID controller versus running uh
one higher end drive so here we are we have an installation guide and warranty
info ocz covers this I believe for 3 years uh limited
warranty uh that should be on the back oh two years on onyx drives so you do
get a slightly shorter warranty but in terms of price they are not even close
to the other drives so you got to kind of take the good with the bad it looks
like they're standard SSD drive so you got a nice black housing this is a 2 and
1/2 in Drive so it is compatible with either desktop
or notebook computer on the back you find a sticker
that you shouldn't remove because then your warranty will be void and at the
back of the drive you find a standard SATA power and SATA 2 Data interface
thank you for checking out my unboxing of the ocz Onyx and uh hopefully you'll
stay tuned on my blog for the uh
interesting video that I'm going to have coming up as soon as I have time