OCZ Vertex 4 Review

Re:OCZ Vertex 4 Review (kougar)

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:21:38 GMT

doorules

Sol, the new V4 has a marvelle controller and not their own in house as they would have let people believe...

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5741/ocz-confirms-octane-and-vertex-4-use-marvell-based-silicon

Yeah, pretty crazy that was only just figured out too. Nobody was any the wiser about the Octane & Petrol SSDs. I wonder what the write amplification is like... it was pretty high on Crucial m4 drives that used Marvell chips, which was why Intel never gave it a 5 year warranty unlike the 320 and 520 models.

Re:OCZ Vertex 4 Review (NazcaC2)

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:33:47 GMT

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Re:OCZ Vertex 4 Review (doorules)

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:29:34 GMT

Sol, the new V4 has a marvelle controller and not their own in house as they would have let people believe...

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5741/ocz-confirms-octane-and-vertex-4-use-marvell-based-silicon

Re:OCZ Vertex 4 Review (whitnasty1)

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:18:16 GMT

Samsung 830 series FTW

Re:OCZ Vertex 4 Review (garnetandblack)

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:40:38 GMT

anony-moose

Yeah, OCZ is overrated. Sandforce in general is overrated, but there are companies more competent than OCZ producing SF-driven SSD's so I think the situation is improving somewhat

The vertex 4 is based on the everest 2 controller - indilinx silicon. I agree with the rest of your post.

Re:OCZ Vertex 4 Review (boredgunner)

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:10:37 GMT

seronx

http://www.newegg.com/Pro...x?Item=N82E16820227793

512GB for $699 @ release?! WHOA!

So much for cheaper at release!

Re:OCZ Vertex 4 Review (seronx)

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:54:30 GMT

http://www.newegg.com/Pro...x?Item=N82E16820227793

512GB for $699 @ release?! WHOA!

Re:OCZ Vertex 4 Review (boylerya)

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:50:46 GMT

The way I look at it, people that dont put in the time to research the product they are buying will assume the Vertex 4 is faster than the Vertex 3 just because of how the 4 is a higher number than 3 being placed after Vertex. Then because they see a better price on that drive they will choose it over the competition even though the drive is slower than a Vertex 3. Seems pretty misleading for those that dont know any better that want a drive for the best performance; which is pretty much why you go with an SSD to begin with. They should have called it Vertex 3 Eco, or given it a new name altogether.

Re:OCZ Vertex 4 Review (smoothie)

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:58:44 GMT

Actually this would be an excellent drive for me to use since I do a lot of CAD work (Small file sizes ranging from 100kb-2mb). However I will also need a SATA3 motherboard as well to bring out the full potential of these SSD's.

Re:OCZ Vertex 4 Review (kram36)

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:50:44 GMT

It looks pretty darn good to me.

Re:OCZ Vertex 4 Review (anony-moose)

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:31:51 GMT

Yeah, OCZ is overrated. Sandforce in general is overrated, but there are companies more competent than OCZ producing SF-driven SSD's so I think the situation is improving somewhat

OCZ Vertex 4 Review (boylerya)

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:23:07 GMT

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/vertex-4-everest-2-benchmark,3172.html

The Vertex 3 drives have better performance according to the benches, but the Vertex 4 drives will be cheaper per GB. Combined with OCZ's terrible customer support, it is a fail IMO.