Vertex 3 specs and benchmarks

[vafan13]

OCZ Vertex 3 240GB back in stock at newegg and use this 10% coupon EMCKFJE23 for -$50.00 off at checkout. Only good for 72 hours..

yeah i decided to pull the trigger on it. Still way more than I had initially planned on spending on a SSD but what the hell, just need to smoke a few less cigars/drink a little less scotch next month and it'll even out.

Plus I'm tired of the headaches of putting together a new rig, I just want to use the damn thing.

[ArcticOC]

Just made this graphic for comparison, think I know what SSD I'm buying this summer

[Anvil]

The 120GB MaxIO edition looks much better on paper than the standard one, should be interesting getting a pcmv comparison of those two.

Still waiting for info on the 240GB MI...

[Anvil]

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MAX IOPS Product sheet

[Anvil]

A few benchmarks from the PCH (Sandy Bridge)

2R0 Vertex 3 240GB, strip size 64KB
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Looks like a great combo for the PCH

[Computurd]

what is PCH max sequential speed?

[Anvil]

Not sure, probably a bit more, but I don't find mixing 6Gb/s+3Gb/s drives/ports that interesting. (there are 2 6Gb/s ports on the P67, should have been more but thats for the X79-E )
(might give it a try just to find out what happens)

edit:
I did give it a try and by adding 1 C300 256GB to the equation throughput was reduced, the AS SSD score increased though.
(3x Vertex'es probably would have performed better than mixing Vertex 3 + C300)

[Wendy]

Very impressive, Anvil.

Regarding P67 PCH.
There are 8 x1 PCIe2 lanes on P67 PCH, with each lane having 10Gbps concurrent bandwidth.
I have no idea how many lanes are set aside for SATA, perhaps 2?

[kgk]

Just got my two 240's in the mail today. Can't wait to install them.

Will be quite the upgrade over the old Intel 80GB G1.

[felix_w]

Anvil, any plans on trying your V3's on your LSI?

[One_Hertz]

So MaxIO is only faster at high que 4k?

[Anvil]

@felix_w
Sure, will do that this weekend.

@One_Hertz
Looks like the speed gain is at high qd's but more importantly it is now almost on par with the 240GB on writing incompressible data.

@Wendy
I'm happy with those results
I haven't found out how many lanes that are reserved for the SATA part, according to TechReport "The P67 has a second-gen DMI implementation that doubles the speed of each lane, bumping aggregate interconnect bandwidth up to 4GB/s." Link

Anyways, it can't handle the bandwith of 3x Vertex 3's
(the wait for X79 has officially started)

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[Andrea deluxe]

is my vertex3 ok?

[Brahmzy]

Here's my 2 240's...



And Andrea - your single 120 looks right where it's supposed to be...

[Andrea deluxe]

Here's my 2 240's...



And Andrea - your single 120 looks right where it's supposed to be...

why my is 103424k and yours 1024k

[johnw]

why my is 103424k and yours 1024k

Because you installed Windows on yours -- you have the 1024KiB offset + 100MiB space windows leaves = 101 MiB = 103424 KiB.

[Andrea deluxe]

Because you installed Windows on yours -- you have the 1024KiB offset + 100MiB space windows leaves = 101 MiB = 103424 KiB.

but mine is ok? right?

[Anvil]

@ Andrea_deluxe

Yours is just fine.

[Ao1]

So MaxIO is only faster at high que 4k?

Strange. The SF-2200/2100 is based on the ONFi 2 specification - up to 166MT/s. 4K should be faster with 32nm. I wonder what NAND they are using. Toshiba? IMFT?

[Wendy]

I speculated a couple of weeks ago that MAXIO would use Toshiba 32nm toggle mode NAND.
Although I haven't been able to get my hands on a MAXIO SSD, I still think that Tosh 32nm toggle mode NAND is still the most likely, as it was already used ES Vertex 3 Pro SSDs.

It may also use the SF-2282 controller rather than the SF-2281 used in the Vertex 3.

[One_Hertz]

Anyways, it can't handle the bandwith of 3x Vertex 3's
(the wait for X79 has officially started)

Aren't you running them in sata2? In that case 250x3 = 750 which is exactly what you are seeing, meaning no controller bottleneck.

[Anvil]

We did discuss the Toshiba toggle NAND on the previous page, I'm pretty sure that's whats used but it would be great to know for sure

I won't be ordering the MAXIO edition unless I'm unhappy with the day-to-day performance on the standard edition.
If I had known there was a MAXIO editon in the works I probably would have waited though, the 240GB MAXIO doesn't bring that much to the table vs the 120GB MAXIO edition.

@One_Hertz

No, 2x 6Gb/s ports + 1x 3Gb/s port

[One_Hertz]

@One_Hertz

No, 2x 6Gb/s ports + 1x 3Gb/s port

I am pretty sure that when you do that you limit your array to 3x the bandwidth of the weakest link, which is the 3Gb port.

[Anvil]

You are correct
For some reason I thought I had tried 3R0 C300 on the PCH resulting in >1GB/s but that wasn't correct. I had to use 4 drives for that kind of bandwidth.

[Brahmzy]

Yep - we're stuck with 2 6G drives for now on the P67... I wanted to buy 3 or 4 V3's, but soon realized if you're spanning your R0 array across both 3G & 6G ports, the 6G ports negotiate down to 3G speeds - no thanks. Gotta wait for x79. That's gonna be an EXPENSIVE upgrade for me. I'm thinking a very minimum of 4 MaxIO 120's... of course that's a ways out and whose to say the MaxIO will be the top SSD?