1 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:15,360 Welcome to another SSD unboxing. This one is actually particularly exciting. 2 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:18,000 This is OCZ's Vertex 4. So, if you're 3 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:22,800 familiar with OCZ's nomenclature for their drives, you'll know that as far as 4 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:24,800 the consumer space goes, Vert.Ex is 5 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:31,359 their branding for what they consider to be their top tier, best they can 6 00:00:27,599 --> 00:00:33,200 deliver, top product line. So, the 7 00:00:31,359 --> 00:00:37,440 original Vertex used an Indelinks barefoot controller and that was when 8 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:41,840 OCZ and Ind were both still separate companies. The second generation Vertex 9 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:47,120 used the first generation Sanforce controller which at the time delivered 10 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:49,280 previously unheard of performance due to 11 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:53,600 the way that it compressed the data before it wrote it to the flash allowing 12 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:57,680 you to basically get more more mileage for your dollar in terms of the actual 13 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:01,680 speed of the flash itself due to controller voodoo magic. than the 14 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:05,280 Vert.ex 3, which is still a current product and still going, is using a 15 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:12,880 second generation sandforce controller, a SATA 36 Gbit per second force 16 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:15,119 controller. And this right here is the 17 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:20,720 second product we've seen from OCZ that takes advantage of their new 18 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:24,880 relationship with Ind. So that is the original Vertex one was Indelinks and 19 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:31,360 now we've come full circle again back to Ind. The difference is this time OCZ is 20 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:34,000 the owner of Ind has developed the 21 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:39,119 controller for this chip in-house since the acquisition for Indelinks and is so 22 00:01:37,119 --> 00:01:44,640 proud of their creation that they are putting their Vertex branding as well as 23 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:49,680 a 5-year warranty behind this product. And I apologize guys in advance for the 24 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:53,759 uh for the backdrop here which happens to be my system that I'm working on but 25 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:57,280 it was too heavy to move. So it is what it is. So, what does OCZ have to say for 26 00:01:55,680 --> 00:02:02,719 themselves? High performance design? Yeah, that's for sure. As far as real 27 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:05,119 world performance benchmarks go, it's 28 00:02:02,719 --> 00:02:09,360 pretty much up there. It's either a top performer or the top performer. In some 29 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:15,120 synthetic benchmarks, it doesn't do quite as well, but at the end of the 30 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:17,599 day, I use my drives in the real world. 31 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:21,040 I don't know about you. MLC flash memory is hardly a selling point. Everyone's 32 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:25,920 using MLC flash memory these days. Includes an SSD adapter. That's good to 33 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:27,599 have. SATA 3 6 Gbit per second. H, which 34 00:02:25,920 --> 00:02:31,120 is pretty much the limiting factor for the performance of this drive due to a 35 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:35,680 couple of the a couple of the performance enhancements they've made, 36 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:42,239 including a huge RAM cache that allows it to basically max out the SATA 36 Gbit 37 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:44,160 per second uh interface whenever it's 38 00:02:42,239 --> 00:02:47,360 able to use it. Trim support, once again, it better be. And a really cool 39 00:02:45,920 --> 00:02:52,000 thing about the fact that it has trim support is also compared to the Octane 40 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:57,680 which was the first Indelinkx infused OCZ product since the uh since the 41 00:02:54,239 --> 00:02:59,360 acquisition um non-trim support is also 42 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:03,360 significantly better compared to that first generation Everest product. So 43 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:07,120 this is Everest 2 in terms of the controller and it not only supports trim 44 00:03:05,519 --> 00:03:11,599 but also performs much better without trim into links infused. So that means 45 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:16,400 it has an Indelink controller as opposed to the sandforce controllers that not 46 00:03:14,159 --> 00:03:20,640 only OCZ has access to but everyone else in their dog has access to. This is 47 00:03:18,879 --> 00:03:25,480 their own thing. So was designed and built with unparalleled performance, reliability and endurance in mind. So 48 00:03:23,599 --> 00:03:30,400 reliability and endurance is something that they're very very serious about on 49 00:03:28,159 --> 00:03:34,159 this product. Not only are they throwing the 5-year warranty on it, but they're 50 00:03:32,159 --> 00:03:36,959 also building in a lot more advanced features such as and I totally have 51 00:03:35,519 --> 00:03:42,799 notes over there. No, don't look over there. Those are my notes. Okay, just a 52 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:46,720 sec. So, the features that OCZ is building in to justify that warranty are 53 00:03:44,799 --> 00:03:50,080 things like very low right amplification compared to previous generation 54 00:03:48,159 --> 00:03:54,239 products, which means that when especially when the drive is in a more 55 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:59,680 used state and it has to move things around before it can write to it. It is 56 00:03:56,239 --> 00:04:01,840 doing less wasting of the I mean, let's 57 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:05,439 face it, few limited write cycles that are available on the nan flash that it's 58 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:11,040 using. So, that's going to make it last longer. Also, it's ready for upcoming 59 00:04:08,799 --> 00:04:15,680 generations of NAND flash because it supports much more robust error 60 00:04:13,599 --> 00:04:20,400 correction than previous generation products, which allows it to as we 61 00:04:17,759 --> 00:04:25,440 shrink the processes for the NAND uh the NAND flash that's on these drives, they 62 00:04:22,479 --> 00:04:28,880 become inherently less accurate and less reliable. So, we will be able to 63 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:32,720 compensate for that with an advanced controller like this one, which may not 64 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:36,960 seem relevant today, but if you're an engineer at OCZ or any other SSD 65 00:04:35,199 --> 00:04:40,479 company, you had better be concerned about that, especially if you're going 66 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:43,840 to bring a product to market and expect it to last for a long time. Now, 67 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:47,520 speaking of lasting for a long time, performance is very good today, but I 68 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:51,440 would definitely expect it to continue to improve because we are still very 69 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:55,199 early on in the firmware of this drive. And even the last generation Everest 70 00:04:53,199 --> 00:04:59,040 product, Octane, got a significant performance boost with firmware well 71 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:04,960 after the initial launch. So, inside the box, we get a my SSD is faster than your 72 00:05:01,759 --> 00:05:09,000 hard drive sticker. We get an OCZ 73 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:13,120 warranty and installation guide 74 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:16,560 book. Sweet. All right. We get a 2 and 75 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:19,840 1/2 in to 3 and 1/2 in OCZ adapter made 76 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:23,440 of metal, which is good. 77 00:05:19,840 --> 00:05:27,680 And we get some mounting screws. And 78 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:30,240 finally, the Vertex 4 2.5 in solidstate 79 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:36,639 drive. And what could be what could be sexier than putting it next to this GTX 80 00:05:33,840 --> 00:05:40,560 590 classified so you can enjoy both of them 81 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:42,160 together. Pretty sweet, hey. So, 82 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:47,600 consistent performance across all workloads is a is a trait that both 83 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:51,520 Everest controllers share. Now what that means is compared to Sanforce where if 84 00:05:49,840 --> 00:05:55,520 you're copying a large file that happens to be like a raar file or a sevenzip 85 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:58,639 file an already compressed file it will tend to be significantly slower because 86 00:05:57,280 --> 00:06:02,240 Sanforce deresides a lot of its performance by compressing data on the 87 00:06:00,639 --> 00:06:05,680 fly and you can't really compress much further data that's already been 88 00:06:03,759 --> 00:06:09,199 compressed whereas Everest gets the same performance regardless of whether you're 89 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:14,800 working with compressible or non-compressible data. It supports AES 90 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:16,720 256 encryption, which is a feature that 91 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:20,000 is useful if you encrypt your drive. Personally, I don't work with encryption 92 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:25,120 on my desktop, so I'm not too worried about it. It also has absolutely wicked 93 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:28,479 4K random read and write performance, as well as outstanding write performance. 94 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:34,960 Once again, especially with incompressible data. When it comes to incompressible data, this drive is 95 00:06:31,840 --> 00:06:36,960 pretty much untouchable. the higher cap 96 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:43,680 drives as with many other drives. I don't know if you guys have checked out this video on my NCIXCOM channel, but if 97 00:06:41,280 --> 00:06:47,199 you do, I do mention this many times. Higher capacity drives tend to perform 98 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:50,800 better than lower capacity versions using the same architecture. Whether 99 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:55,840 it's because there are more channels to write to uh in parallel or read from in 100 00:06:53,840 --> 00:06:59,919 parallel, giving it just a sheer bandwidth advantage, or whether there 101 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:03,680 are other architecture tweaks, that just tends to be the case. So this is a 256 102 00:07:01,919 --> 00:07:08,319 gig drive which will perform slightly less than the 512 gig drive and slightly 103 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:12,080 better than the 128 gig drive. So you do get more value for buying a higher 104 00:07:09,919 --> 00:07:17,280 capacity besides just the additional capacity. And right now 120 gig is sort 105 00:07:15,599 --> 00:07:21,120 of the sweet spot, but more and more people are deciding to go with 256 gig 106 00:07:19,199 --> 00:07:23,680 drives as well. So you can come in and have a close look at it physically, 107 00:07:22,319 --> 00:07:28,800 although I don't expect you're going to notice much of note. Um the sticker is 108 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:32,160 on crooked on this one. So maybe that's because it's a media sample, but you 109 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:35,680 know, that's probably the kind of thing that I would correct cuz I'm OCD like 110 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:39,440 that. In terms of mounting holes, you see your usual mounting holes. So yes, 111 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:43,599 it can be mounted either in a desktop or in a notebook. Got your four on the 112 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:47,440 bottom. You got your sticker showing the serial number. You got your warranty 113 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:51,199 void if removed OCZ sticker. You've got your standard SATA 36 GB per second data 114 00:07:49,759 --> 00:07:55,680 port as well as your SATA power connector. And other than that, in terms 115 00:07:53,759 --> 00:07:59,440 of the physicality of it, yeah, there's nothing special, but it's what's under 116 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:03,599 the hood that makes this drive special. Maybe it's not the same kind of a 117 00:08:01,199 --> 00:08:08,240 generational performance leap like we saw from Vert.ex one to Vertex 2 or from 118 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:12,800 2 to three, but what this is is it's finally something that OCZ has 100% 119 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:18,639 control over. I mean, yeah, there were the blue screen issues with the early 120 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:21,639 earlier Sandforce drives that OCZ took the brunt of the flack for because they 121 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:26,160 were the ones shipping most of the drives. Well, now they're no longer 122 00:08:24,479 --> 00:08:29,840 relying on a third party company in order to support them. So, this is one 123 00:08:27,759 --> 00:08:34,320 of the first products where we see how well they are going to deliver when they 124 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:38,320 actually fully control all aspects of the execution of this drive. So, I'm 125 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:41,680 very excited to see how the general public accepts this particular product. 126 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:44,080 Thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look.