OCZ Vertex LE Limited Edition SSD Solid State Drive SandForce Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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750 words · ~3 min read
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another SSD unboxing yes yes it is
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however there is a very good reason for it this is the ocz vertex okay you've
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heard this before but wait there's more
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limited edition okay so this is a limited edition drive it is a 200
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Gigabyte drive that I'm going to be unboxing today which seems like an odd
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odd number for for an SSD because typically what we've seen in the past is
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32 gig 64 gig 128 2 50 etc etc but no
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this is a 200 gig it is a high performance design with mlc flash memory
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I'll more on this in a minute trim support and raid capability but let's go
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back to the back of this drive okay latest groundbreaking solid state taking
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shape in the limited edition okay you can probably read that if you pause it
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so I'll let you do that if you want to this is where this drive separates
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itself from the crowd reads up to 270 megabytes per second totally
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unexceptional WR up to 250 megabytes per
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second we have not seen an mlc flash drive capable of anywhere near this kind
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of a right speed with sustained rights up to 235 megabytes per second so that
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means that there's a little bit of a trick this is not another indel linkx
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based ocz vertex drive this is based on
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an entirely new controller called
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the if I could get the package off I'm
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actually not sure if I'm allowed to say exactly what it is but I'll say that it's made by a different vendor one that
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we've been eagerly anticipating the controllers from and it the initials are
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S and F okay so if you if you know too
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much about ssds in fact you can probably Google it all right let's get this thing
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open here but the way that they achieve this high level of right performance is
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through a compression algorithm that actually writes far less than you're
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actually telling it to now that means that the controller on this drive is far
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more complicated than an indel linkx controller but it is able to achieve a
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high level of performance without expensive flash so it's a bit of a
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tradeoff okay so it comes with an installation guide uh how to prepare
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your drive before use more installation guide formatting and your limited
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warranty which I believe is 3 years on this drive but it looks like it doesn't
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say that here must say it's somewhere
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yeah there it is threeyear warranty on this particular ocz product
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so the vertex limited edition actually you know what I'm going to do something
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unprecedented and I'm just going to kind of put this down and I'm going to let
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the cameraman look at it for a second and I'm going to step out of the room
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and go get another prop one moment I'll
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be
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back yeah I hope that was really interesting I'm back just closing the
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door I wanted to compare it to the older
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vertex okay so there we go basically it
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looks almost the same you can see that the label is slightly shinier because
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vertex is now shiny and limited edition is shiny they're both SATA 2 so that
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means that we're not going to be moving beyond the approximately 270 megabyte
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pers second overall bandwidth limitation of a SATA 2 controller they're the same
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thickness so that means they're going to be compatible with pretty much 99% of
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laptops out there they feature mounting holes on the sides as well as on the
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bottoms of the drives the bottoms of these drives actually look uh pretty
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much exactly the same you can see the part number is slightly different this
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is a VTX L whereas the older ones are
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just VTX and I think that's pretty much all
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there is to say about it the vertex Le comes at a price premium you can see
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that we've got a SATA 2 interface here SATA 2 power SATA 2 Data but you are
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getting the fastest mlc performance on
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the market today and that is why this is worth unboxing even though we're just
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looking at another black SSD drive from
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ocz thank you for checking out my video
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