OCZ Vertex 2 Sandforce MLC SSD Solid State Drive Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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977 words · ~4 min read
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so today I'll be doing a quick unboxing of a new SSD from ocz this is the vertex
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250 gig now the specs for the vertex 2
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50 gig 100 Gig 200 gig 60 gig 120 gig
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and 240 gig it's available in a lot of
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capacities are pretty much the same now the biggest difference between the
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vertex 2 and the vertex 1 is that the vertex 2 uses the new sandforce
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controller it uses the sf200 and the whole vertex 2 Series unlike sandforce
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controllers from other manufacturers and unlike the agility 2 Series has a
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special firmware tweak that allows it to get better performance in wrs basically
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okay it's a high performance design mlc flash memory trim support raid
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capability all of those pretty much go without saying these days and it
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includes a 3 and 1 12 in SSD adapter for desktops that's pretty neat let's flip
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around to the back see what ocz has to say for themselves here now this is the
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trick read up to 285 megab per second and write up to 275 megab perss with
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sustained rights up to 250 megab per second that's huge because the sandforce
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controller actually allows mlc flash to
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write more data than you are actually
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writing to the dis now I'm going to explain what that means it's basically
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compressing the data let's say you've got 10 gigs of data you're going to just
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write to your drive it's compressing it on the Fly which means compared to the
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older indeling controller it's quite a bit more complicated
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but it means that maybe even though it's writing 10 gigs of data and then it'll
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read off 10 gigs of data it might might only write 8 gigs of data so that means
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a your SSD will last longer because you're using fewer right cycles and B it
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will go faster because you're writing that 10 gigs of data to uh in only 8
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gigs so it'll go 20% faster and I don't have a knife today but that's okay you
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guys can live while I just uh cut this
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open with a pen wow they've really improved the resiliency of their plastic
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on the packaging compared to previous vertex series drives there we go it's
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finally off okay let's get this opened up so see we had to look at the specs uh
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oh well it opens at the top not the side how
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Innovative okay okay here we go so they've updated their um their included
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foamy packaging thing to uh have like a slot in the back where they've stuffed
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in a 2 and 1/2 in to 3 and 1/2 in drive
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adapter so there it is it looks like that uh I I don't remember if I did an
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unboxing on this at some point or not but it's fairly straightforward you just
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um here I'll just pull the drive out really quick so you just use the screws
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on the bottom of the drive strap them in like this and then you attach this to
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your case using the 3 and 1 12 in Drive Bay holes okay so let's have a look at
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what else they've included also some uh mounting screws so four screws to attach
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the SSD to the adapter and then four screws to mount the adapter in your case
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thanks ocz then they've also got a warranty card here installation guide
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and warranty info let's see how long is the warranty on this
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one H 3 years there you go threeyear
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warranty awesome let's get the drive opened up here caution content sensitive
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to electrostatic discharge open only at a static free workstation ooh
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okay well hopefully that won't be a problem for us
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today that open up okay so it looks uh
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just like the old vertex drives actually this is kind of funny they have changed
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the shape of the sticker but they haven't changed the shape of the outline
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for the sticker in the top of the drive so it's a square cutout with a rounded
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sticker in it now also they've updated the label with two rather than just
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vertex excellent Improvement there as well your warranty is void if this is
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removed or broken so you can't take the drive apart and then let's have a look
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so we got our 2 and 1/2 in mounting holes here we got our 2 and 1/2 in
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mounting holes on the other side and then at the bottom we have more 2 and
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1/2 in standard mounting holes so this will fit and almost any laptop or 2 and
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1/2 in adapter or uh case that supports 2 and 1/2 in drives here is our part
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number so it is the uh 2 VTX
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series okay and then let me see what else do we have here oh yeah we've got
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our SATA 2 power and SATA 2 data now these drives do still run off of SATA 2
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rather than the new SATA 3 but the reality of it is SATA 3 wouldn't really
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contribute anything because the maximum performance of SATA 2 is 300 megabit per
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second or about wait no it isn't 1.5 3
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gabit per second which comes out to roughly and this isn't quite right 300
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megabytes per second so at 285 2 75 for reads and writs this drive is still not
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bottlenecked by the satat 2 interface anyway thank you for checking out my
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unboxing of the ocz vertex 2 SSD