OCZ Vertex Drives

**gergregg** · 03-18-2009, 09:51 AM

My (3) 30GB vertex's which will be raided will be here tomorrow, and my x-25m will be here a couple of days later. Cost was very similar between the two setups.

Post a list of the benmarks you would like see between both setups and I'll do what I can.

**Richard Dower** · 03-18-2009, 09:52 AM

^ cheers.

**modboxx** · 03-18-2009, 10:00 AM

Originally Posted by Richard Dower

bad move IMO, for the price of two X25 why not buy 3 or 4 Vertex and RAID them?....then buy a 2TB for storage?

2x80 x25s is $686
3x60 vertex is $660

**Rhys** · 03-18-2009, 10:03 AM

Originally Posted by modboxx

2x80 x25s is $686
3x60 vertex is $660

Why not 3x30?
90gb too small?

**modboxx** · 03-18-2009, 10:08 AM

Originally Posted by Rhys

Why not 3x30?
90gb too small?

Yeah dude, I need some more room.

I'm actually lost right now, I was able to get them to cancel the order but I just don’t know what to order now.

This review couldn’t of come at a worse time

This Page is why i'm second guessing myself. What do you think?

**One_Hertz** · 03-18-2009, 10:14 AM

Originally Posted by modboxx

Yeah dude, I need some more room.

I'm actually lost right now, I was able to get them to cancel the order but I just don’t know what to order now.

This review couldn’t of come at a worse time

Why did you cancel it

? The M is the faster drive according to the review so if the two options cost the same then I don't see what the issue is?

**modboxx** · 03-18-2009, 10:22 AM

Originally Posted by One_Hertz

Why did you cancel it

? The M is the faster drive according to the review so if the two options cost the same then I don't see what the issue is?

I cancelled the 3 vertex drives to order the two x25m's but now i dont know.

**Rhys** · 03-18-2009, 10:24 AM

Originally Posted by modboxx

Yeah dude, I need some more room.

I'm actually lost right now, I was able to get them to cancel the order but I just don’t know what to order now.

This review couldn’t of come at a worse time

No it came at a good time because you still have time to decide!

I would bare in mind that this review was done on old firmware, and from the limited real world tests that was carried out there doesn't appear much in it, between the two!

Apps
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/sho...px?i=3531&p=29

Games
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/sho...px?i=3531&p=30

It might be worth putting your order on hold until we know how the new raid firmware performs, at which point I think it will be unlikely future FW will squeeze any more raw power out of the drives, but will just add more features such as TRIM & ACHI!

**Rhys** · 03-18-2009, 10:30 AM

Originally Posted by modboxx

This Page is why i'm second guessing myself. What do you think?

I'm not 100% sure but I have a feeling AHCI would help here?

**One_Hertz** · 03-18-2009, 10:52 AM

The world of warcraft loading time difference is actually very large. Too bad they didn't do more tests so we could see if that is the norm or if it is an outlier.

Keep in mind that as time goes by those real world differences will increase more as the CPUs, RAM, etc. will get faster and SSDs will be stressed more. Right now you can put some slower SSD (like samsung SLC) by side with something that is a lot faster in every way (like x25-e) and the real world differences won't be anywhere as massive because there are other things holding the X25 back...

**Rhys** · 03-18-2009, 11:00 AM

Originally Posted by One_Hertz

The world of warcraft loading time difference is actually very large. Too bad they didn't do more tests so we could see if that is the norm or if it is an outlier.

Keep in mind that as time goes by those real world differences will increase more as the CPUs, RAM, etc. will get faster and SSDs will be stressed more. Right now you can put some slower SSD (like samsung SLC) by side with something that is a lot faster in every way (like x25-e) and the real world differences won't be anywhere as massive because there are other things holding the X25 back...

I agree, we needed more real world tests because you could say the same about an X25e Vs Vertex in loading Photoshop CS4!

**modboxx** · 03-18-2009, 11:04 AM

Man why didnt they update the firmware before posting the results? I guess i could hold off a week

**lowfat** · 03-18-2009, 11:14 AM

What firmware were they using in the tests? I didn't see it listed. The 1199 newer firmware just adds higher sequential read/writes. It didn't affect the small random read/writes. So I don't think it would sway things all that much.

**Brahmzy** · 03-18-2009, 11:41 AM

Originally Posted by lowfat

What firmware were they using in the tests? I didn't see it listed. The 1199 newer firmware just adds higher sequential read/writes. It didn't affect the small random read/writes. So I don't think it would sway things all that much.

pre-1199 Firware was used and yes, random small writes got much better as well....

Go to OCZ forums if you want to know anything about Vertex. Up to the minute.

**lowfat** · 03-18-2009, 11:45 AM

Originally Posted by Brahmzy

pre-1199 Firware was used and yes, random small writes got much better as well....

Go to OCZ forums if you want to know anything about Vertex. Up to the minute.

I am there everyday.

I got my Vertex today, what benchmarks do people want me to use to compare to to the X25-M?

**Rhys** · 03-18-2009, 11:50 AM

Originally Posted by lowfat

I am there everyday.

I got my Vertex today, what benchmarks do people want me to use to compare to to the X25-M?

This is the new firmware I am currently waiting to test out, should be available friday.

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**lowfat** · 03-18-2009, 11:55 AM

Originally Posted by Rhys

This is the new firmware I am currently waiting to test out, should be available friday.

That is three drives, not just one.

**Rhys** · 03-18-2009, 12:01 PM

Originally Posted by lowfat

That is three drives, not just one.

That's right it says that in the atto, but no available benchmarks for single drives yet! But this new firmware supposedly is faster for single drives and also has some raid 0 optimisations.

**gergregg** · 03-18-2009, 01:57 PM

Originally Posted by lowfat

That is three drives, not just one.

That is true, but at the same cost (3x30gb) as the x-25m. So while not an apples to apples, it's what people could buy and do for the same cost.

**Brahmzy** · 03-18-2009, 08:49 PM

Some more Vertex benches....

My 2 Vertex 120GBers on my ICH10R I just got in today.

**day187** · 03-19-2009, 12:15 AM

3x30GB Vertex RAID 0
Latest firmware 1199
vista64 installed fully updated
DFI X58 ICH10R

workstation1

day

**Afterburner** · 03-19-2009, 12:35 AM

I noticed OCZ's site doesnt say 32mb cache for the 30/60GB models anymore. Only 64mb is mentioned. Does this mean OCZ has made 64mb standard across the Vertex series....

**UObean** · 03-19-2009, 01:42 AM

Originally Posted by Afterburner

I noticed OCZ's site doesnt say 32mb cache for the 30/60GB models anymore. Only 64mb is mentioned. Does this mean OCZ has made 64mb standard across the Vertex series....

Yes

**WhiteFireDragon** · 03-19-2009, 02:35 AM

i just got this drive, and just did a really quick bench on HDtune to get a few numbers instead of going through a full suite of benching applications. please tell me i'm doing something wrong instead of degradation:

bench of a freshly plugged in drive at the very beginning:

after a 128kb partition offset and the OS is installed, but NOT benched on the same active running OS:

benched on the same OS it was installed on:

first two screen shots were done on my desktop with an e8600, 2gb memory, and a velociraptor as the active OS. the last SS was in a netbook with it being the active OS (but that shouldn't matter).

**One_Hertz** · 03-19-2009, 05:32 AM

your netbook probably only supports sata1

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