WEBVTT 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:11.360 This does not come in a retail box, although it will for you. This is the 00:00:06.040 --> 00:00:15.599 OCZ Vertex 3. So, this is a very, very 00:00:11.360 --> 00:00:18.160 exciting product because it comes as a 00:00:15.599 --> 00:00:25.199 successor and as a worthy successor to the Vertex 2, which has pretty much 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:28.320 dominated the SSD market for the past 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:30.960 considerable amount of time. 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:35.680 So with the Vertex one, OCZ had competitors that were like competing 00:00:33.440 --> 00:00:39.920 controllers that were not Indelinks, which was used by OCZ as well as a 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 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:50.320 performance was not necessarily the strongest argument for getting a Vertex 00:00:48.719 --> 00:00:54.879 1, especially later on in the life cycle. With the Vertex 2, there hasn't 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:59.120 been that much that's been close or beated in terms of performance and but 00:00:57.520 --> 00:01:04.360 but it was still a pretty close race. You had competitors like the Crucial 00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:07.360 C300 that were pretty close largely in 00:01:04.360 --> 00:01:09.520 part largely in part largely due to the 00:01:07.360 --> 00:01:15.520 fact that they used a SATA 36 Gbit per second control um interface. So the 00:01:12.320 --> 00:01:17.360 Vertex 3 changes all that. It gives us a 00:01:15.520 --> 00:01:25.280 new sandforce controller. This is an SFFF 2200 Sandforce controller and it 00:01:21.119 --> 00:01:28.360 also upgrades the interface to SATA 3 6 00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:31.680 GB per second. So the one I have here 00:01:28.360 --> 00:01:33.439 today is in an anti-static bag. Comes 00:01:31.680 --> 00:01:38.079 packed in a foam thing like this. The retail drives probably come with a 2 and 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 00:01:40.159 --> 00:01:46.799 sample for such nicities to be included. 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 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:56.720 clearly see here that this is just a plain black drive with a silver bottom. 00:01:53.600 --> 00:02:00.799 This is a 240 gig version, although the 00:01:56.720 --> 00:02:03.680 drive is available in 120, 240, and 480 00:02:00.799 --> 00:02:10.080 gig configurations. Now, the 480 gig at the time of filming is not really a uh 00:02:06.560 --> 00:02:12.720 compelling value at just over $1,600 or 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 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:23.040 price of a 240. Whereas a 240 is approximately double the price of a 120. 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:27.120 And so it should be. And a 120 is approximately double the price of a 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:32.879 another 60 gig on the market plus a premium for the advanced controller that 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:36.160 goes into this. So the Vertex 3 uses 00:02:32.879 --> 00:02:38.160 updated 25 nanometer flash. It uses, as 00:02:36.160 --> 00:02:40.959 I mentioned before, an SFF 2200 controller. It uses a SATA 3 interface. 00:02:39.920 --> 00:02:44.879 So, if you want to come and have a closer look at the interface here, 00:02:43.040 --> 00:02:50.800 there's your SATA power and there's your SATA 3 interface, which looks exactly 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:52.879 like SATA 2 because all of the changes 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:56.400 that have gone on are actually on this side of the interface rather than on the 00:02:54.640 --> 00:03:00.319 connector themselves. You've got all of your standard mounting holes. So, you've 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:03.440 got your sides here as well as your bottom mounting holes. So, that means 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 00:03:05.519 --> 00:03:12.560 take a very small 1.8 8 in SSD or if it 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:16.319 has non-standard mounting, which is very, very rare. So, pretty much will 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:22.400 fit in any laptop and with an adapter, it'll fit in pretty much any desktop. 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:23.760 Uh, in terms of other changes, OCZ, 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 00:03:26.879 --> 00:03:35.200 you're running the Windows 7 OS, it will automatically clean up any deleted data 00:03:33.040 --> 00:03:41.440 and optimize it so that you're not going to experience any slowdown as the SSD 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:43.760 gets into a what is called a used state. 00:03:41.440 --> 00:03:48.000 Okay, so it does feature trim and it is also fully RAID capable. Now, this is 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:52.319 something that pretty much everyone puts on their SSD packaging and it's always 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 00:03:54.480 --> 00:04:01.599 come look at the drive for a little bit. RAID capable basically just means SSDs 00:03:59.200 --> 00:04:06.959 perform extremely well in RAID, which has been true since day one and will 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:11.200 likely remain true. It uses MLC flash, 00:04:06.959 --> 00:04:13.760 which is not as um durable as SLC flash, 00:04:11.200 --> 00:04:18.239 but should still be just fine for consumer level use. And it has a as 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 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:28.560 hours. Okay, so like we've seen with 00:04:26.320 --> 00:04:32.960 previous generations of SSDs, the specs are actually slightly different for the 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 00:04:35.840 --> 00:04:41.600 520 megs per second, and random right at 00:04:39.040 --> 00:04:46.560 4 kilobyte. This is aligned of 60,000 IOPS. The 120 gig is slightly slower 00:04:44.160 --> 00:04:51.360 rights at only 500 megabytes per second. And the 480 gig is actually 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:53.600 significantly slower with only 530 00:04:51.360 --> 00:04:59.199 megabytes per second read, 450 megabytes per second, right, and random right 4K 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 00:05:01.280 --> 00:05:07.680 240 gig drive. So thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Vertex 3240. 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:11.280 Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and 00:05:09.280 --> 00:05:14.160 other computer videos. Can't wait to try this guy out.