WEBVTT 00:00:07.520 --> 00:00:15.360 Welcome to another SSD unboxing. This one is actually particularly exciting. 00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:18.000 This is OCZ's Vertex 4. So, if you're 00:00:15.360 --> 00:00:22.800 familiar with OCZ's nomenclature for their drives, you'll know that as far as 00:00:19.760 --> 00:00:24.800 the consumer space goes, Vert.Ex is 00:00:22.800 --> 00:00:31.359 their branding for what they consider to be their top tier, best they can 00:00:27.599 --> 00:00:33.200 deliver, top product line. So, the 00:00:31.359 --> 00:00:37.440 original Vertex used an Indelinks barefoot controller and that was when 00:00:35.280 --> 00:00:41.840 OCZ and Ind were both still separate companies. The second generation Vertex 00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:47.120 used the first generation Sanforce controller which at the time delivered 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:49.280 previously unheard of performance due to 00:00:47.120 --> 00:00:53.600 the way that it compressed the data before it wrote it to the flash allowing 00:00:51.120 --> 00:00:57.680 you to basically get more more mileage for your dollar in terms of the actual 00:00:56.000 --> 00:01:01.680 speed of the flash itself due to controller voodoo magic. than the 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:05.280 Vert.ex 3, which is still a current product and still going, is using a 00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:12.880 second generation sandforce controller, a SATA 36 Gbit per second force 00:01:08.080 --> 00:01:15.119 controller. And this right here is the 00:01:12.880 --> 00:01:20.720 second product we've seen from OCZ that takes advantage of their new 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:24.880 relationship with Ind. So that is the original Vertex one was Indelinks and 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 00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:34.000 the owner of Ind has developed the 00:01:31.360 --> 00:01:39.119 controller for this chip in-house since the acquisition for Indelinks and is so 00:01:37.119 --> 00:01:44.640 proud of their creation that they are putting their Vertex branding as well as 00:01:42.240 --> 00:01:49.680 a 5-year warranty behind this product. And I apologize guys in advance for the 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 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 00:01:55.680 --> 00:02:02.719 themselves? High performance design? Yeah, that's for sure. As far as real 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:05.119 world performance benchmarks go, it's 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:09.360 pretty much up there. It's either a top performer or the top performer. In some 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:15.120 synthetic benchmarks, it doesn't do quite as well, but at the end of the 00:02:11.200 --> 00:02:17.599 day, I use my drives in the real world. 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:21.040 I don't know about you. MLC flash memory is hardly a selling point. Everyone's 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:25.920 using MLC flash memory these days. Includes an SSD adapter. That's good to 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:27.599 have. SATA 3 6 Gbit per second. H, which 00:02:25.920 --> 00:02:31.120 is pretty much the limiting factor for the performance of this drive due to a 00:02:29.440 --> 00:02:35.680 couple of the a couple of the performance enhancements they've made, 00:02:32.720 --> 00:02:42.239 including a huge RAM cache that allows it to basically max out the SATA 36 Gbit 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:44.160 per second uh interface whenever it's 00:02:42.239 --> 00:02:47.360 able to use it. Trim support, once again, it better be. And a really cool 00:02:45.920 --> 00:02:52.000 thing about the fact that it has trim support is also compared to the Octane 00:02:49.440 --> 00:02:57.680 which was the first Indelinkx infused OCZ product since the uh since the 00:02:54.239 --> 00:02:59.360 acquisition um non-trim support is also 00:02:57.680 --> 00:03:03.360 significantly better compared to that first generation Everest product. So 00:03:01.440 --> 00:03:07.120 this is Everest 2 in terms of the controller and it not only supports trim 00:03:05.519 --> 00:03:11.599 but also performs much better without trim into links infused. So that means 00:03:09.200 --> 00:03:16.400 it has an Indelink controller as opposed to the sandforce controllers that not 00:03:14.159 --> 00:03:20.640 only OCZ has access to but everyone else in their dog has access to. This is 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 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:30.400 reliability and endurance is something that they're very very serious about on 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:34.159 this product. Not only are they throwing the 5-year warranty on it, but they're 00:03:32.159 --> 00:03:36.959 also building in a lot more advanced features such as and I totally have 00:03:35.519 --> 00:03:42.799 notes over there. No, don't look over there. Those are my notes. Okay, just a 00:03:40.360 --> 00:03:46.720 sec. So, the features that OCZ is building in to justify that warranty are 00:03:44.799 --> 00:03:50.080 things like very low right amplification compared to previous generation 00:03:48.159 --> 00:03:54.239 products, which means that when especially when the drive is in a more 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 00:03:56.239 --> 00:04:01.840 doing less wasting of the I mean, let's 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:05.439 face it, few limited write cycles that are available on the nan flash that it's 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:11.040 using. So, that's going to make it last longer. Also, it's ready for upcoming 00:04:08.799 --> 00:04:15.680 generations of NAND flash because it supports much more robust error 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:20.400 correction than previous generation products, which allows it to as we 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:25.440 shrink the processes for the NAND uh the NAND flash that's on these drives, they 00:04:22.479 --> 00:04:28.880 become inherently less accurate and less reliable. So, we will be able to 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:32.720 compensate for that with an advanced controller like this one, which may not 00:04:30.320 --> 00:04:36.960 seem relevant today, but if you're an engineer at OCZ or any other SSD 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:40.479 company, you had better be concerned about that, especially if you're going 00:04:38.400 --> 00:04:43.840 to bring a product to market and expect it to last for a long time. Now, 00:04:42.400 --> 00:04:47.520 speaking of lasting for a long time, performance is very good today, but I 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:51.440 would definitely expect it to continue to improve because we are still very 00:04:49.440 --> 00:04:55.199 early on in the firmware of this drive. And even the last generation Everest 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:59.040 product, Octane, got a significant performance boost with firmware well 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 00:05:01.759 --> 00:05:09.000 hard drive sticker. We get an OCZ 00:05:04.960 --> 00:05:13.120 warranty and installation guide 00:05:09.000 --> 00:05:16.560 book. Sweet. All right. We get a 2 and 00:05:13.120 --> 00:05:19.840 1/2 in to 3 and 1/2 in OCZ adapter made 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:23.440 of metal, which is good. 00:05:19.840 --> 00:05:27.680 And we get some mounting screws. And 00:05:23.440 --> 00:05:30.240 finally, the Vertex 4 2.5 in solidstate 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:36.639 drive. And what could be what could be sexier than putting it next to this GTX 00:05:33.840 --> 00:05:40.560 590 classified so you can enjoy both of them 00:05:37.320 --> 00:05:42.160 together. Pretty sweet, hey. So, 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:47.600 consistent performance across all workloads is a is a trait that both 00:05:45.440 --> 00:05:51.520 Everest controllers share. Now what that means is compared to Sanforce where if 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 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:58.639 file an already compressed file it will tend to be significantly slower because 00:05:57.280 --> 00:06:02.240 Sanforce deresides a lot of its performance by compressing data on the 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:05.680 fly and you can't really compress much further data that's already been 00:06:03.759 --> 00:06:09.199 compressed whereas Everest gets the same performance regardless of whether you're 00:06:07.680 --> 00:06:14.800 working with compressible or non-compressible data. It supports AES 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:16.720 256 encryption, which is a feature that 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:20.000 is useful if you encrypt your drive. Personally, I don't work with encryption 00:06:18.560 --> 00:06:25.120 on my desktop, so I'm not too worried about it. It also has absolutely wicked 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:28.479 4K random read and write performance, as well as outstanding write performance. 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:34.960 Once again, especially with incompressible data. When it comes to incompressible data, this drive is 00:06:31.840 --> 00:06:36.960 pretty much untouchable. the higher cap 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 00:06:41.280 --> 00:06:47.199 you do, I do mention this many times. Higher capacity drives tend to perform 00:06:45.520 --> 00:06:50.800 better than lower capacity versions using the same architecture. Whether 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 00:06:53.840 --> 00:06:59.919 parallel, giving it just a sheer bandwidth advantage, or whether there 00:06:57.600 --> 00:07:03.680 are other architecture tweaks, that just tends to be the case. So this is a 256 00:07:01.919 --> 00:07:08.319 gig drive which will perform slightly less than the 512 gig drive and slightly 00:07:06.240 --> 00:07:12.080 better than the 128 gig drive. So you do get more value for buying a higher 00:07:09.919 --> 00:07:17.280 capacity besides just the additional capacity. And right now 120 gig is sort 00:07:15.599 --> 00:07:21.120 of the sweet spot, but more and more people are deciding to go with 256 gig 00:07:19.199 --> 00:07:23.680 drives as well. So you can come in and have a close look at it physically, 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 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 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 00:07:34.240 --> 00:07:39.440 that. In terms of mounting holes, you see your usual mounting holes. So yes, 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 00:07:41.520 --> 00:07:47.440 bottom. You got your sticker showing the serial number. You got your warranty 00:07:45.120 --> 00:07:51.199 void if removed OCZ sticker. You've got your standard SATA 36 GB per second data 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:55.680 port as well as your SATA power connector. And other than that, in terms 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:59.440 of the physicality of it, yeah, there's nothing special, but it's what's under 00:07:57.280 --> 00:08:03.599 the hood that makes this drive special. Maybe it's not the same kind of a 00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:08.240 generational performance leap like we saw from Vert.ex one to Vertex 2 or from 00:08:06.080 --> 00:08:12.800 2 to three, but what this is is it's finally something that OCZ has 100% 00:08:10.960 --> 00:08:18.639 control over. I mean, yeah, there were the blue screen issues with the early 00:08:16.160 --> 00:08:21.639 earlier Sandforce drives that OCZ took the brunt of the flack for because they 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:26.160 were the ones shipping most of the drives. Well, now they're no longer 00:08:24.479 --> 00:08:29.840 relying on a third party company in order to support them. So, this is one 00:08:27.759 --> 00:08:34.320 of the first products where we see how well they are going to deliver when they 00:08:31.840 --> 00:08:38.320 actually fully control all aspects of the execution of this drive. So, I'm 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:41.680 very excited to see how the general public accepts this particular product. 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:44.080 Thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look.