OCZ Vector 180 - PAX East 2015
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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Thank you to the HyperX YouTube channel, youtube.com/krstonhyperx for sending us
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here this year. Also, thank you to linda.com and Phantom Glass. We're here
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at OCZ to check out their replacement for their Vector 150, the new not yet
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released yet Vector 180, probably named because they're pulling a 180 from the
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Vector that they were previously on. I'm sorry. Moving on to the drive itself.
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And away from terrible puns, there's three different configurations. 240 GB,
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480 GB, and 960 GB. All of these drives
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have a maximum bandwidth of 550 megabytes per second, and a maximum IOPS
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on the two larger ones of 100K and 95K
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on the smaller one. Sustained IOPS are 20,000 for the smallest and the biggest
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one, and 23,000 for the 480 gig. They're
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rated for 50 GB a day of usage and have a 5year Shield Plus warranty. What the
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heck does a Shield Plus warranty mean? Well, if anything goes wrong with the
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drive, they have told me that you can send a message to their RMA team and
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they will ship you out a new drive right away with a shipping label for your old
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drive. So, there isn't nearly the amount of wait time that you would have to go
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through if you had to ship them your drive and then wait for them to verify
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that it's broken and then they can ship you a new one. No, they just send you a
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new one right away and just hopefully you send your old one back in. That's a
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pretty intense warranty and probably comes from confidence due to their
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acquisition from Toshiba. I've been talking to the guys here for a little while. They've been telling me that
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their overall failure rates and RMA returns are much lower than they used to
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be. Something that's plugged OCZ for a while now. This kit also comes with a
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drive adapter so that you can clone over and cloning software to go through that
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cloning process. While the overall aesthetic design isn't super new, I do
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really appreciate the jet black background and think that it's a pretty good looking drive overall. Thank you to
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HyperX for sending us here this year. Check out the YouTube channel,
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youtube.com/krston HyperX for a ton of cool gaming videos and I think we even
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have some stuff on there as well. Be sure to subscribe. They'd appreciate it a lot. Also, thank you to Phantomglass,
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store.fanlass.com to pick up some of the best damn screen protectors out there.
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Also, linda.com. on linda.com/packs will get you a really cool offer code and you
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can use that offer code to learn things like programming or editing in Premiere
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or even some business practices. Pretty much whatever the heck you want. Be sure
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to check them out as well. All right, guys. Thanks for watching. If you were sketched out about OCZ before, now that
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they've been acquired by Toshiba and there's been some some time for the
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growing pains to wean out, are you interested in them again? Is is this
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something that you're interested in? Let me know in the comments down below or over on the forum. Thanks for watching
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and stay subscribed to Line Effectives to see all the rest of our PAX East 2015
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content.