OCZ (Vertex) Vs. (Vertex Plus) Vs. (Vertex 2) Vs. (Vertex 3) SSD

depends on your usage pattern. In general, even the vertex plus is much faster than mechanical hard drives.

To be more precise the Vertex Plus uses a newer revision of the Indilinx controller which was used in the Vertex. Performance should improve but still below what Sandforce (Vertex 2) offers. But for most people there wouldn't' be a noticeable difference between them anyway.

Vertex 3 is only good if you have a SATA3 port, and it's supposedly performs the best. Again most people wouldn't notice the difference though.

So through my research I couldn't find much about the Vertex Plus, other than it was going to be better than the Vertex by a little bit.
So I looked for some charts comparing the Vertex to it's successors to see if the Vertex (plus) was worth it for $100.
I only looked at the actual performance, not the benchmarks that are based on scores because those are rarely representative of real life situations.

For sequential read and write, it looks like Vertex does a good job keeping up with all except the Vertex 3.

[IMG]http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/7885 ... alread.png[/IMG]
[IMG]http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/518/ ... lwrite.png[/IMG]

The vertex did very well for random reads, comming out on top of all the other SSDs, and even though it does horribly in the random write comparison, typically, a user will be doing a lot more random reads than random writes.
[IMG]http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/5579 ... omread.png[/IMG]
[IMG]http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/1686/a ... mwrite.png[/IMG]

Finally, it was nice to see that power consumption on the Vertex was lower in the case of high throughput (as expected because of the lower throughput), and comparable to the other SSDs during idle.
[IMG]http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/5695/p ... tmaxth.png[/IMG]
[IMG]http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/8291 ... atidle.png[/IMG]

So all in all, the Vertex itself for it's price, is realistically a great drive. Lets hope the Vertex Plus is indeed better than the Vertex.

Its been a while since Generation 1 SSDs.

I don't think either the Vertex or Vertex Plus supports Trim? Triple check this though.

I think most people were happy with their Vertex 2s, but if you're getting any of the 3 series, you may want to check out before committing.

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum ... id3-drives

Stay away from all OCZ stuff. Terrible company. Bad CS, misleading practices and advertising. They will create a product, adviertise it's speed, send out review units, get great reviews on-line, then once the first batch runs out, remove the speed claims from their packageing, change the chips inside the product significantly reducing its performance and tell you that nothing is wrong, "we don't promise speeds", as long as the product works your outta luck with them.

This is what they did to me and thousands of others on different products (SSDs and USB Thumb Drives). They'll do it again.

Plus I've seen so many complain about rejected mail-in rebates...

Just stay away.

Good luck.

hurley_bernard wrote: ↑

Sep 11th, 2011 12:03 am

Its been a while since Generation 1 SSDs.

I don't think either the Vertex or Vertex Plus supports Trim? Triple check this though.

According to their specifications it does support TRIM.

Not sure if it's just wording, but I did notice that the Vertex/Vertex Plus says "TRIM Support" while the Vertex 3 says "Native TRIM Support". I'm gonna guess that this is simply because the Vertex required a firmware upgrade to support TRIM, while the Vertex 3 comes out of the box with TRIM support.

Andrew4Life wrote: ↑

Sep 11th, 2011 10:48 pm

According to their specifications it does support TRIM.

Not sure if it's just wording, but I did notice that the Vertex/Vertex Plus says "TRIM Support" while the Vertex 3 says "Native TRIM Support". I'm gonna guess that this is simply because the Vertex required a firmware upgrade to support TRIM, while the Vertex 3 comes out of the box with TRIM support.

May want to check a few independent sources to confirm.