Vertex 3 specs and benchmarks

[Manicdan]

i miss the days when anand tested the loading of WoW as a benchmark.

you have no idea how important HDD speed is until your game crashes and you have 10 seconds to log back in before a wave of fire crashes over your character and burns him to death (ok maybe i being dramatic, but my character understands the pain)

[RyderOCZ]

Anandtech is not really going to post anything new that hasn't been posted at the OCZ forum in regards to the performance of 120 vs 240GB drives.

120GB drives have had AS-SSD numbers on the forum for almost 2 weeks.

VERTEX3 120GB SATA3                    VERTEX3 240gb SATA3
Seq.. Read    482.9                    Seq.. Read    512.31
Seq.. Write    156.7                   Seq.. Write    283.31
4k.. Read    19.6                      4k.. Read    23.23
4k.. Write    68.5                     4k.. Write     97.52
4k-64 Thrd.. Read    117.3             4k-64 Thrd.. Read    174.09 
4k-64 Thrd.. Write   151.0             4K-64 Thrd..Write    198.12                                             
Access Time Read (ms)    0.14          Access Time Reads (ms)      0.036
Access Time Write (ms)    0.31         Access Time Writes (ms)     0.207
Read Score   185                       Read Score    249
Write Score    235                     Write Score   324
Overall Score    506                   Overall Score    697

Vertex3 120GB on SATAII
Seq.. Read                         267.1
Seq.. Write                        157.3
4k.. Read                           20.6
4k.. Write                          65.4
4k-64 Thrd.. Read                  107.7
4k-64 Thrd.. Write                 145.0
Access Time Read (ms)                0.14
Access Time Write (ms)               0.22
Read Score                         155
Write Score                        226
Overall Score                      463

[Andrea deluxe]

Let’s see what Anandtech say, but I think it’s a bit of a push to classify different capacity drives under the same product name if they are using different density NAND chips that effectively half the channels. It’s not dissimilar to the difference between an X25-M and X25-V.

That said there must be something more to it than that....

OCZ Specs V3
120 GB = 20,000
240 GB = 40,000
480 GB = 50,000

Intel Specs
40 GB = 30,000
80 GB = 38,000
120 GB = 38,000
160 GB = 39,000
300 GB = 39,500
600 GB = 39,500

its a joke?

[F@32]

Oh my.... This is very weak: http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/fo...l=1#post621931

IO METER (QD=1) 2008 on P67 SATAIII

4KB Random READ 120GB - 16.31 240GB - 15.58 480GB - 17.77

its a joke?

Unfortunately, not...

[One_Hertz]

At least OCZ is honest about it this time?

[Andrea deluxe]

[Brahmzy]

I'd like to see QD1 IOMETER Randoms from the 510's - betcha we'd get a big surprise!

[Ao1]

I haven't seen anything for the 510 but Anvil posted some Iometer stats for the 320 here

The 320 specs below show that writes rather than reads take the hit with smaller capacity drives. A 40GB 320 has 50% higher 4K random read IOPS specs when compared to a 120GB V3 and that is without compression.

Granted those stats are based on QD 32 not QD1.

[Lu(ky]

I have not seen any Vertex 3 RO or Intel 510 RO yet? Just curious what the specs look like on a P67 mobo controller.
So what's the deal is Intel 510 a better buy now?

[Nizzen]

I have one intel 510 here.

@ ich10
iometer random read qd1 4k align intel 510 120gb

qd2 and qd3

[Nizzen]

Vertex 3 120gb benches:
Marvel p55 6gbit kontroller and ich10
Iometer result is 4k rr qd=3

[Nizzen]

Raid-0 4k stripe on Areca 1880 2x 120gb Vertex 3
-Pcmark vantage hdd suite
-Vertex 3 iometer 100% read 2mb 12gb testfile 4kstripe R0
-Vertex 3 iometer random read4k align 12gb testfile 4kstripe R0

[Brahmzy]

Looks like the 4K QD3 RR IOPS and MB/S are almost identical between the 510 128 & V3 120 with the V3 just a tiny bit higher. If I'm reading that right...

[Brahmzy]

Here's Anand's review of the V3 120.
Look like it's on par with everybody elses 120/128 offerings.... at least the ones that were included in the tests.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4256/t...review-120gb/1

[F@32]

Lol, buy C300 while they last

[Brahmzy]

Lol, buy C300 while they last

C300 256, that is. The C300 128 is slower than the V3 120.

[F@32]

C300 256, that is. The C300 128 is slower than the V3 120.

Is C300 64/128 slower in 4K QD1? Doubt it... QD1 would be more realistic. Below is QD3 though...


That's 75-85% of desktop IOs. Check out hIOmon thread.
See the rough weighting by transfer size and QD depth. Source: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...7&postcount=87
We need new storage benchmark badly! For now it is IOmeter and Ao1's spreadsheet

[Brahmzy]

Is that chart showing reads or writes?

[F@32]

Is that chart showing reads or writes?

Those are reads.

[antiacid]

Here's Anand's review of the V3 120.
Look like it's on par with everybody elses 120/128 offerings.... at least the ones that were included in the tests.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4256/t...review-120gb/1

more to the point, anandtech's review is basically showing the v3 240gb to be the best buy overall, regardless of how average the 120gb version ends up being.

No worries, it's not like we can actually buy any of these products at the moment anyway...

[mbreslin]

So..

Over a year and a generation later and low qd performance isn't much better (even slower in some cases).

To the people who are scared to buy because they fear their drive will be obsolete in six months or a year, pick the best drive you can and fire away! You can't wait forever. The speed man, the speed!

[F@32]

So..
Over a year and a generation later and low qd performance isn't much better (even slower in some cases).

Sad, but true.
This quote is epic from Anand's review :

Random read performance is what suffered the most with the transition from 240GB to 120GB. The 120GB Vertex 3 is slower than the 120GB Corsair Force F120 (SF-1200, similar to the Vertex 2) in our random read test. The Vertex 3 is actually about the same speed as the old Indilinx based Nova V128 here. I'm curious to see how this plays out in our real world tests.

This is 240GB V3 4K QD3 for reference. Slower than C300.

[mbreslin]

If they had some reasonable form factor that could fit in a pc case I'd go ACARDs for my next build.

[Brahmzy]

So the V3 120's are going back/getting sold - do I buy 2 C300 128's? 2 C300 240's? or plop the $1,100 down for the 2 V3 240's. Dead serious.

Not that it matters much, but I got a bit higher than Anand did on his. 43 vs 37

V3 120 - 4K RR QD3


My Inidilinx Vertex 1 120 - 4K RR QD3 - LOL not much slower

[F@32]

If they had some reasonable form factor that could fit in a pc case I'd go ACARDs for my next build.

Or may be this http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=STRK:MEWAX:IT or this http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=STRK:MEWAX:IT little friend Too bad not bootable