Founder Michael Posted April 13, 2011 Founder Share Posted April 13, 2011 The latest OCZ Vertex 3 models are going to be split to standard and MaxIO editions with different SKUs and about 100$ price difference.So there's gonna be 120GB and 120GB MaxIO, same for 240GB.Source : General Discussion Vertex 3 MAX IO partnoI have a 240GB on preorder on amazon, not sure if i wanna cancel it or not... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mw86 Posted April 13, 2011 Share Posted April 13, 2011 What are the IO per seconds and Max Read and Write? Intel 510 series is around 500MB reads/sec Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder Michael Posted April 13, 2011 Author Founder Share Posted April 13, 2011 there are no specs yet. just the promise it'll outperform the standard version. worth 100$? probably not, the 240gb version is king of the hill already... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashtefere Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 Yeah Anand from Anandtech blasted OCZ about the wildly varying performance of these drives, and demanded that they name the drives differently based on their performance.OCZ agreed, mainly I think because they saw an opportunity to charge more for something they were going to sell originally at a lower price.I did not expect a $100 difference though. Thats just fucking greedy.I guess their indlilinx purchase has hurt the back pocket a bit.-Ash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder StamatisX Posted April 14, 2011 Founder Share Posted April 14, 2011 Too bad Intel doesn't have any model able to compete with that... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder Michael Posted April 14, 2011 Author Founder Share Posted April 14, 2011 ^^ Yeap, i'd go for intel in a heartbeat, i don't trust OCZ to be as reliable.. time will tell i guess, i am keeping my order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KillerBunny Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 If only intel and sandforce would work together... That might be the end of ocz, corsair, crucial, kingston, and pretty much every other ssd. You would have to pay a premium, but you would get both RELIABILITY and PERFORMANCE. Rumors that they might work together on the next gen ssd I heard? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mw86 Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 I'd say at the budget Intel 510 series 250gb flavor is a nice buy and has okay specs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LVNeptune Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 After seeing the 510 bomb at EVERY benchmark except one, I would go with anything else (except Corsair) at this point.Also, never touching Corsair again with a 1 mile pole.Their SSD's are so full of fail it's not even funny.Newegg.com - Corsair Force CSSD-F120GB2-BRKT 2.5" 120GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) that's their F120 series that supposedly fixed all the issues their Reactor series suffered, of which I bought both R60 and F120...Corsair can go to hell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LVNeptune Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 Also if anyone has a hookup on some Vertex 3 240gb let me know, I am interested in 2 possibly...Can't find them anywhere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mw86 Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 After seeing the 510 bomb at EVERY benchmark except one, I would go with anything else (except Corsair) at this point.Also, never touching Corsair again with a 1 mile pole.Their SSD's are so full of fail it's not even funny.Newegg.com - Corsair Force CSSD-F120GB2-BRKT 2.5" 120GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) that's their F120 series that supposedly fixed all the issues their Reactor series suffered, of which I bought both R60 and F120...Corsair can go to hell.Wow I didn't realize they look okay on paper... guess Intel is good at CPU's not Solid State Drives... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kune Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 OCZ really does not cease to amaze with their shadiness.From my recent experiences with them, I'd say these v3 benches are bloated and will experience higher than normal degradation in their settled in state.I mean, I would love to believe v3 will be the fastest - by a long shot - but after all they've put me through, and their pattern of disrespect and disregard toward their customers, I highly doubt it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mw86 Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 (edited) Amazon.com: OCZ Technology 240 GB Vertex 3 SATA III 6.0 Gb/s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive VTX3-25SAT3-240G: ElectronicsOne is listed for $530, If they had 2 and I had that kind of money I'd grab them in a heartbeat. NAND Flash Components: 2Xnm Multi-Level Cell (MLC) NAND Flash Memory, Interface: SATA III 6.0Gbps, Form Factor: 2.5" slim design form factorLife Expectancy: 2 million hours Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF), ECC Recovery: Up to 55 bits correctable per 512-byte sector (BCH)Max Read: up to 550MB/s, Max Write: up to 520 MB/s, 4KB Random Write (Aligned): 60,000 IOPS, Seek time: 0.1 ms, Controller: SandForce 2281Where's the other version? Max IOPS edition?*Both SKU's are listed with an ETA set to end of April. (could mean start of May)VTX3MI-25SAT3-120GVTX3MI-25SAT3-240GThe 240 is priced ~$100 above the standard V3 and the 120 is priced roughly $60 over the standard edition. Edited April 24, 2011 by mw86 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder Michael Posted April 25, 2011 Author Founder Share Posted April 25, 2011 I paid 500$ exactly for that 240gb version from amazon. looks like they took the price up a bit. the new skus are nowhere to be found so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder Michael Posted April 25, 2011 Author Founder Share Posted April 25, 2011 heres a tech sheet of the maxio versions. http://www.ocztechnology.com/res/manuals/OCZ_Vertex3_MAX_IOPS_Product_sheet.pdfas you can see they don't even have numbers for > 120gb versions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mw86 Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 (edited) Either way sequential reads in Raid 0 with 2 drives would be 1gb+ a second which would be amazing and writes wouldn't fall far behind. Intels 510 model now that I look closer is much more expensive and has lower speeds. Knowing what you paid Michael I'll have to be patient and wait for them to go back to $500 or less.*So Michael with an R3 are you on Sata3? The Sata 3 seems to be where the performance is... 500mb/sec reads... Edited April 25, 2011 by mw86 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder Michael Posted April 25, 2011 Author Founder Share Posted April 25, 2011 sorry, didn't understand your question there. what did you mean? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder StamatisX Posted April 25, 2011 Founder Share Posted April 25, 2011 mw86, yeah the R3 has SATA 3 so with this SSD you will see some good numbers for sequential reads/writes like those you mentioned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder Brian Posted May 4, 2011 Founder Share Posted May 4, 2011 I sense an OCZ Vertex 3 in my future at some point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder StamatisX Posted May 4, 2011 Founder Share Posted May 4, 2011 In Intel we trust... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder Michael Posted May 4, 2011 Author Founder Share Posted May 4, 2011 Intel are lagging behind too much lately, i'd jump on a high performing sata 3 intel drive, but unfortunately i had to go with OCZ as it blows the best Intel has to offer out of the water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder StamatisX Posted May 4, 2011 Founder Share Posted May 4, 2011 I am pretty sure they could deliver a much faster SSD but for some reason I think they hold their horses... could be wrong but I doubt a company like Intel is not be able to compete with a smaller company like OCZ... also the huge difference shown in the benchmarks is mostly because of the compressible data, so in many cases the difference won't be that big and I would rather go with reliability than performance when it comes to data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder Michael Posted May 4, 2011 Author Founder Share Posted May 4, 2011 Problem is, they aren't even using their controller in the 510 model. It's marvel's instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder StamatisX Posted May 4, 2011 Founder Share Posted May 4, 2011 Indeed, but, the controller is fine as hardware, firmware was the problem with Crucial from the very beginning... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder Michael Posted May 4, 2011 Author Founder Share Posted May 4, 2011 I didn't know that. Still, i'd trust Intel own controller more, maybe it's wrong, but that's just the way I feel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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