1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:11,360 This does not come in a retail box, although it will for you. This is the 2 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:15,599 OCZ Vertex 3. So, this is a very, very 3 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:18,160 exciting product because it comes as a 4 00:00:15,599 --> 00:00:25,199 successor and as a worthy successor to the Vertex 2, which has pretty much 5 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:28,320 dominated the SSD market for the past 6 00:00:25,199 --> 00:00:30,960 considerable amount of time. 7 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:35,680 So with the Vertex one, OCZ had competitors that were like competing 8 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:39,920 controllers that were not Indelinks, which was used by OCZ as well as a 9 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:46,719 number of others at the time uh out on the market such as in uh Intel uh where 10 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:50,320 performance was not necessarily the strongest argument for getting a Vertex 11 00:00:48,719 --> 00:00:54,879 1, especially later on in the life cycle. With the Vertex 2, there hasn't 12 00:00:53,039 --> 00:00:59,120 been that much that's been close or beated in terms of performance and but 13 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:04,360 but it was still a pretty close race. You had competitors like the Crucial 14 00:01:00,719 --> 00:01:07,360 C300 that were pretty close largely in 15 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:09,520 part largely in part largely due to the 16 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:15,520 fact that they used a SATA 36 Gbit per second control um interface. So the 17 00:01:12,320 --> 00:01:17,360 Vertex 3 changes all that. It gives us a 18 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:25,280 new sandforce controller. This is an SFFF 2200 Sandforce controller and it 19 00:01:21,119 --> 00:01:28,360 also upgrades the interface to SATA 3 6 20 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:31,680 GB per second. So the one I have here 21 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:33,439 today is in an anti-static bag. Comes 22 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:38,079 packed in a foam thing like this. The retail drives probably come with a 2 and 23 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:43,840 1/2 to 3 and 1/2 in adapter, but this one is clearly a bit too early of a 24 00:01:40,159 --> 00:01:46,799 sample for such nicities to be included. 25 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:51,200 The drive itself will come with Vertex 3 branding on the top of it, but you can 26 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:56,720 clearly see here that this is just a plain black drive with a silver bottom. 27 00:01:53,600 --> 00:02:00,799 This is a 240 gig version, although the 28 00:01:56,720 --> 00:02:03,680 drive is available in 120, 240, and 480 29 00:02:00,799 --> 00:02:10,080 gig configurations. Now, the 480 gig at the time of filming is not really a uh 30 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:12,720 compelling value at just over $1,600 or 31 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:17,920 maybe it's like $1,800 retail. It's very very high. It's far more than double the 32 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:23,040 price of a 240. Whereas a 240 is approximately double the price of a 120. 33 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:27,120 And so it should be. And a 120 is approximately double the price of a 34 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:32,879 another 60 gig on the market plus a premium for the advanced controller that 35 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:36,160 goes into this. So the Vertex 3 uses 36 00:02:32,879 --> 00:02:38,160 updated 25 nanometer flash. It uses, as 37 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:40,959 I mentioned before, an SFF 2200 controller. It uses a SATA 3 interface. 38 00:02:39,920 --> 00:02:44,879 So, if you want to come and have a closer look at the interface here, 39 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:50,800 there's your SATA power and there's your SATA 3 interface, which looks exactly 40 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:52,879 like SATA 2 because all of the changes 41 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:56,400 that have gone on are actually on this side of the interface rather than on the 42 00:02:54,640 --> 00:03:00,319 connector themselves. You've got all of your standard mounting holes. So, you've 43 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:03,440 got your sides here as well as your bottom mounting holes. So, that means 44 00:03:01,599 --> 00:03:10,560 you'll be able to mount this in pretty much any laptop as long as it doesn't 45 00:03:05,519 --> 00:03:12,560 take a very small 1.8 8 in SSD or if it 46 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:16,319 has non-standard mounting, which is very, very rare. So, pretty much will 47 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:22,400 fit in any laptop and with an adapter, it'll fit in pretty much any desktop. 48 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:23,760 Uh, in terms of other changes, OCZ, 49 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:29,720 well, okay, let's let's talk about things that aren't changes. So, it still supports trim, which means that if 50 00:03:26,879 --> 00:03:35,200 you're running the Windows 7 OS, it will automatically clean up any deleted data 51 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:41,440 and optimize it so that you're not going to experience any slowdown as the SSD 52 00:03:38,319 --> 00:03:43,760 gets into a what is called a used state. 53 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:48,000 Okay, so it does feature trim and it is also fully RAID capable. Now, this is 54 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:52,319 something that pretty much everyone puts on their SSD packaging and it's always 55 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:56,400 been a little bit confusing to me, but RAID capable. I'm going to come have a 56 00:03:54,480 --> 00:04:01,599 come look at the drive for a little bit. RAID capable basically just means SSDs 57 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:06,959 perform extremely well in RAID, which has been true since day one and will 58 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:11,200 likely remain true. It uses MLC flash, 59 00:04:06,959 --> 00:04:13,760 which is not as um durable as SLC flash, 60 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:18,239 but should still be just fine for consumer level use. And it has a as 61 00:04:16,799 --> 00:04:26,320 speaking of consumer level use, it comes with a three-year warranty and it has a meantime between failure of 2 million 62 00:04:23,199 --> 00:04:28,560 hours. Okay, so like we've seen with 63 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:32,960 previous generations of SSDs, the specs are actually slightly different for the 64 00:04:30,479 --> 00:04:39,040 different capacities. So the 240 gig has a max read of 550 megs, a max right of 65 00:04:35,840 --> 00:04:41,600 520 megs per second, and random right at 66 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:46,560 4 kilobyte. This is aligned of 60,000 IOPS. The 120 gig is slightly slower 67 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:51,360 rights at only 500 megabytes per second. And the 480 gig is actually 68 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:53,600 significantly slower with only 530 69 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:59,199 megabytes per second read, 450 megabytes per second, right, and random right 4K 70 00:04:56,400 --> 00:05:03,280 IOPS of only 40,000. So the IOPS are actually the same for the 120 and the 71 00:05:01,280 --> 00:05:07,680 240 gig drive. So thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Vertex 3240. 72 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:11,280 Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and 73 00:05:09,280 --> 00:05:14,160 other computer videos. Can't wait to try this guy out.