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OCZ Vertex 2 60GB SSD Review
Author: Jim Manis
Published: Tuesday, October 05, 2010
Setup and Testing Synthetic
Testing in the labs consists of our ever evolving suite of benches. We feel they give a nice blend of synthetic and "real world" tests. The system used in all of this reviews numbers is consistently configured, though some numbers may come from previous reviews.
During our testing we were allowed to use the Beta version of OCZ Toolbox to help us out. As of this article the Utility is still in beta and not publicly available, though will likely be released soon.
During our testing we were allowed to use the Beta version of OCZ Toolbox to help us out. As of this article the Utility is still in beta and not publicly available, though will likely be released soon.
The system as it was tested
Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.66 (default)
EVGA X-58 SLI LE
G.Skill DDR3 @ 1333mhz 8-8-8-24 (board default)
Radeon 5850 1GB (default)
EVGA X-58 SLI LE
G.Skill DDR3 @ 1333mhz 8-8-8-24 (board default)
Radeon 5850 1GB (default)
The first bench on the list is ATTO. Synthetic benches are the most common and test raw performance but in different ways. We use several to get a good cross section.
The OCZ Vertex 2 is on the left, the famed WD VelociRaptor SATA3 is on the right
The OCZ Vertex 2 is on the left, the famed WD VelociRaptor SATA3 is on the right
ATTO Disk Benchmark
As you can see the numbers are right where we would expect based on the rated speeds. And it is great to see the small block sizes were also very fast. The write speeds were steady at the 250MB/s level which is amazing compared to SSDs of just a year ago.
HD Tach 3
The HDtach Version we use is Licensed to us but is identical to the version you can get as a trial. We see extremely consistant read speeds in this sequential test. Meaning data is just as easy to access anywhere on the drive where platter style drives slow substantially when data is written near the center. The burst of almost 260MB/s is lower than we expected but simply reflects the variation in methods used to test.
