OCZ Vertex 2 SSD boast 550MB/s read speed, 480MB/s write speed

[JAG87]

OCZ has shown us the prototypes of Vertex 2, their next generation SSD, and the company's CEO Ryan Peterson and EVP and Chief Marketing officer Alex Mei were kind enough to show us a first glimpse of the drive's performance.

The drive is insanely fast as this internal quad raid drive can write at up to 480MB/s and read around 550MB/s, depending on the size of the files.

This is specially the case with big files and in reality at this speed you might copy a 20GB file in just 41.66 seconds, and we are sure that video editing guys are going to love these numbers. In order to achieve thee speeds you will have to get to SATA 3.0, as SATA 2.0 is maxed out at 300MB/s per device. SATA 3.0 on the other hand gets you all the way to 750GB/s which will be enough even for Vertex 2.

This drive will come the market in late Q1 2009 and we reckon it will be ready for Cebit. Here is how it looks in action.

Source: Fudzilla

Ahem, rape?

[Soulburner]

I like the fact that as these get faster, even the small file speeds become acceptable. Small files always bring these drives to their knees but even these are in the 120 read/345 write range for 16kb which is very, very good.

[Astri]

We didnt even saw results of Vertex 1 yet........ and we saw for Vertex 2. Strange

[OutSider]

They improve really fast

[Aerwidh]

This looks really nice

[rogueagent6]

I'll take this with the usual Fud-sized grain of salt, but hopefully this is true.

[largon]

Nice!

Now, how about RAIDing a bunch of these drives?
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Seriously, it might not take long for even SATA3.0 to become a bottleneck for SSDs.

[suffocatio]

Forget SATA we need PCI-E card

[DoubleZero]

I'm pretty sure this is 4 OCZ vertex. They're supposed to come in 1\2 weeks, and i'm gonna get as quickly as possible two of the 30Gb ones. 60GB with 350mb\s read 300mb\s write,with 32\64mb cache for about €250.

[dinos22]

if SATA2 is the limit how did they demo this drive
do they have a working SATA3 board or something?

[Zorlac]

I thought FusionIO was coming out with a SSD PCIE card for gamers? What ever happened with that?

[slim142]

SATA 6.0 development and transition is going to happen fast. Finally hard drives are evolving the same way GPUs are.

[roofsniper]

wow i read the title and thought it was a typo. thats crazy fast. they will cost a fortune most likely but at this rate i might wait until the end of the year to get a ssd as fast as they are advancing.

[DFI pit bull]

they will cost a fortune most likely.

No I doupt it, I can't see OCZ selling cheap ssd's up until now only to cost a fortune all of a sudden with vertex2.


Hope Tony will be able to confirm this claim soon.

[Loque]

damm evolution, my pc feels like an old horse already :p

[NiscoRacing]

SATA 3.0 on the other hand gets you all the way to 750GB/s which will be enough even for Vertex 2.

Should it be 750MB/s ?

[tajoh111]

Its kind of impressive, but did no one notice this is a quad raid.

They didn't magically manage to triple speed of the fastest ssd out.

Fast but I would rather have a single ssd with half this speed so I could raid it myself.

[Vapor]

You should be able to RAID these just fine with your controller of choice

[_Lone_Wolf_]

internal quad raid

Wouldn't this imply the each device has four channel access to it's memory, not four cards are raided together.

[m^2]

750GB/s??
6 Gbit or 600 MB.
Though it surely sounds possible, I highly doubt it. I guess the screenshot shows usual RAID of whatever.

[flopper]

Wouldn't this imply the each device has four channel access to it's memory, not four cards are raided together.

yea, same as the ocz Apex drive.

[saint-francis]

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/fo...ad.php?t=49023


Tony OCZ:

Vertex 2 will feature internally raided controllers like apex...we have a simulation here at the show.

It will be a sata3 part

[WRC]

if SATA2 is the limit how did they demo this drive
do they have a working SATA3 board or something?

there are no sata3 motherboards yet. Most likely these are 2 or 3 vertex in raid, but fudzilla is confusing things again

[Shintai]

there are no sata3 motherboards yet. Most likely these are 2 or 3 vertex in raid, but fudzilla is confusing things again

Yep.

However one thing that really scares me of these internal raid drives is the delayed write cache. Screams for dataloss....new motto could be: Faster, but not yet there....

There is a reason why raid controllers with write cache got battery backup.

This "hotfix" of the jmicron controllers that is still in these drives is scary. Because they fixed the write issue with cache. But they didnt protect the cache.

[_Lone_Wolf_]

there are no sata3 motherboards yet. Most likely these are 2 or 3 vertex in raid, but fudzilla is confusing things again

Isn't AMD's SB800 SATA 3.0 and due late Q2/Q3?
Hard to imagine Intel would cede that as a competative edge.