OCZ to come out with new VERTEX SSD,S equiped with 64MB OF CACHE starting at $129

[F@32]

It is in the works for 2009 as Vertex 2 which is internal RAID-0 with 4 controllers pushing 550mb with reads and 480mb with writes.

I'll upgrade to it after Vertex

550MB/s read

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.

I think what some company needs to do (be it OCZ or a WD Raptor SSD) is finally make a "desktop grade" SSD in a 3.5" chassis that fits into regular desktop computers. And instead of having a type of 2-drive RAID0 internally, set it up as a 4-drive RAID0 (which you *could* do since you have more space in the 3.5" chassis) and have it use 2 SATA connections to run instead of 1. That way you would be able to get somewhere around 450MBps read speeds, super fast access times, and have a lot of storage space(for a SSD anyway). Some might complain about it taking up 2 ports, but this wouldn't be a drive for regular users anyway, it is for special people who pay lots of money for high performance, who cares if you have to use 2 ports if it gives some pretty insane performance numbers?

And don't tell me you cant fit another connection on the back of the drive, they fit a power and data connection on a 2.5" chassis, you can easily fit another data connection in a whole extra inch.

[Griff805]

Hmm... wonder why they didn't show the smaller read/writes-

[Brahmzy]

Hmm... wonder why they didn't show the smaller read/writes-

Exactly...

[F@32]

Hmm... wonder why they didn't show the smaller read/writes-

Because you're clouding issue with facts PR like big and round 550 number.

As always, I'd trust fellow XS'ers with actual performance numbers over any manufacturers...

[XS Janus]

Because you're clouding issue with facts PR like big and round 550 number.

As always, I'd trust fellow XS'ers with actual performance numbers over any manufacturers...

+1 on both points.

[Tony]

Hmm... wonder why they didn't show the smaller read/writes-

The performance of those drives has massively changed with each firmware revision. That bench was right at the start of development where we just wanted to show what we predict max speed would be for a vertex 2 if we internally raided it.

Call it a working concept.

Ohh I saw over 2500IOP's recently on Anands useless IOmeter test 10GB test file if that matter to you with a prototype vertex

[One_Hertz]

Ohh I saw over 2500IOP's recently on Anands useless IOmeter test 10GB test file if that matter to you with a prototype vertex

What were the settings? I am considering two vertexes along with my two Intels for more fast storage.