OCZ Vertex Drives

**modboxx** · 03-19-2009, 08:10 AM

Well i took your advice guys and got 3x30gb vertexs i should get them tomorrow. I love living in ny

Thanks you all for the great help.

**Rhys** · 03-19-2009, 08:32 AM

Originally Posted by modboxx

Well i took your advice guys and got 3x30gb vertexs i should get them tomorrow. I love living in ny

Thanks you all for the great help.

If your on ICH10R they should saturate your on-board raid nicely. I might also add another drive, and then wait for a mobo that supports sata 3 and buy another 3 vertex's and saturate the onboard raid 0 again.
(just need a 8 sata ports board Lol)

AMD may be the first to release sata 3 capable boards.

**adpr_02** · 03-19-2009, 09:44 AM

Hey guys, I'm thinking of getting 2 or 3 30gb Vertex drives and using Raid 0 as I'm really impressed by the performance figures I'm seeing in this thread.

Would my UD3P Raid controller allow me to reach 500-600mb /s with these drives, or would I need to buy a raid controller?

**Wolf132** · 03-19-2009, 09:47 AM

My single 60g OS vertex drive makes my computer run a lot smoother than my overclocked computer with watercooling and hard drives ever did. That's for sure. I will probably add another one in the next few months, but it really isnt even necessary except for added storage space.

**Boogerlad** · 03-19-2009, 10:29 AM

nope, you don't need a controller.

**adpr_02** · 03-19-2009, 11:38 AM

NICE!! Alright then. I'm waiting until the semester ends and then jumping on the SSD bandwagon.

Hopefully by then the Vertex V2 will be out so I can max out that SATA 2 bandwidth. Otherwise, 3 Vertex V1s for the win

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**WhiteFireDragon** · 03-19-2009, 12:10 PM

Originally Posted by One_Hertz

your netbook probably only supports sata1

no, it supports SATA II. and even if it's only SATA I, transfer rate on the active OS is still way below the 150mb/s cap limit for sata1

**gergregg** · 03-19-2009, 02:19 PM

Here is (3) 30GB vertes's (firmware 1199) on the ICH10r of my P5Q-D

Windows 7 full install plus drives and some applications. About 30GB of 91GB used, and no OS tweaks.

**ML Infamous** · 03-19-2009, 03:38 PM

I'm considering getting (2) of the 60GBs to use with my EVGA x58 Classified

**gergregg** · 03-19-2009, 08:42 PM

These drives have been great thus far. My windows 7 boot time went from 72.883 seconds with my 74GB raptor to 19.671 seconds with my vertex array using the attached boot timer program.

**Brahmzy** · 03-20-2009, 07:32 AM

Me too. Love my new Veterxes! Holy crap they're fast.

**lowfat** · 03-20-2009, 08:25 AM

I got the older 0112 firmware from Tony, hopefully I'll be able to install Windows and actually keep it running for more than a few minutes.

**F@32** · 03-20-2009, 08:45 AM

Looks like FW1275 has been pushed back.

**Brahmzy** · 03-20-2009, 09:14 AM

Originally Posted by F@32

Looks like FW1275 has been pushed back.

Yup. OCZ competitors were stealing their FW and testing it on their own drives, so OCZ is making FW1275>on only flashable to their SSDs. Oooops.

**flopper** · 03-20-2009, 10:10 AM

Originally Posted by Brahmzy

Yup. OCZ competitors were stealing their FW and testing it on their own drives, so OCZ is making FW1275>on only flashable to their SSDs. Oooops.

dang lol.

**Hoss331** · 03-20-2009, 11:47 AM

Originally Posted by gergregg

These drives have been great thus far. My windows 7 boot time went from 72.883 seconds with my 74GB raptor to 19.671 seconds with my vertex array using the attached boot timer program.

According to that program it takes my single 120 11.450 seconds to boot vista 64.

**lowfat** · 03-20-2009, 12:14 PM

Originally Posted by lowfat

I got the older 0112 firmware from Tony, hopefully I'll be able to install Windows and actually keep it running for more than a few minutes.

Well older firmware didn't help. Look like my drive is

ed.

**Telperion** · 03-21-2009, 10:16 PM

So I picked up a 30GB OCZ Vertex from Newegg in the recent sale, I plan on using it as an OS drive.

Any tutorials on how to install XP Pro on it and configure the best way possible? There's so much to wade through on OCZForums. Alternatively, I may decide to install Windows 7, or restore an Acronis image of my existing Windows 7 installation. Best way to accomplish that?

**StickyRICE** · 03-21-2009, 10:31 PM

Ok, so the people that have only one vertex, is the stuttering is an issue? I sold my titan drive after 2 weeks cause of that issue. I mean is it gone completely like I can stream HD content and it won't stutter at all, on the titan I can't even watch a youtube video without it stuttering. Man so tempted to get 2 or 3 of these drives, I'm never gonna save up any money if I keep looking at the posts.

**Halk** · 03-21-2009, 11:06 PM

Did you even bother reading the rest of the thread Rice?

**Hoss331** · 03-22-2009, 01:30 AM

Originally Posted by StickyRICE

Ok, so the people that have only one vertex, is the stuttering is an issue?

There is no stutter.

**StickyRICE** · 03-22-2009, 03:45 PM

Originally Posted by Hoss331

There is no stutter.

Awsome, looks like I will be budgeting for some of these next.

**Kersh** · 03-23-2009, 11:22 AM

Hi!

one doubt.

Last week I see a comparative between vertex and intel, and the guy who makes the comparative, also make another comparative between stripes sizes, I was looking for 2 hours but I dont see that post, anyone have the link?

Thanks