Reviews - OCZ Vertex 4 SSD (256GB and 512GB)

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Originally Posted by Biscuit

Oh yeah thats it, the same one as the intel SSDs use though isnt it?




i think the whole 'plagued with problems' comment is a bit OTT. The issues where all fixed with firmware and a lot of users didnt notice them. Its just FUD mostly i reckon. OCZ still sold very well and probably will do the same again, as long as the price is right.

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The whole company is dodgy. They still haven't issued a mass recall of their first 25nm drives which did not have as much capacity as per their specs. OCZ blamed it on Sandforce's RAISE technology and waited for customers to contact them before replacing the affected SSDs. No one knows how many of those duds were sold and how many were replaced.

The first gen Indilinx controller they used was notoriously unreliable in the original Vertex. Why do you think Intel made such a name for itself. Not only were their SSDs quicker but in the early days they were actually cheaper as well.

Samsung, Crucial and Intel put together very decent SSDs. I see no reason to go with OCZ especially since their nearest RMA office is in the Netherlands.

The performances are not much different than the previous version, maybe you should think about reducing the costs

Looking for a SSD. Read this article, but where do have to pay attention and where not?

It depends what you'll mainly be using it for? The Crucial M4 remains one of the best SSDs and at its current price it's pretty unbeatable in terms of value-for-money.

I'm torn between 3 drives, this one, corsair performance pro and the intel 520, fancy the corsair due to the toggle nand, intel due to reliability and this one I have high hopes in its future potential...

Out of the 3 I wouldn't be sure what to pick either. :P Check benchmarks based on what you're doing, one drive may beat the others by a fair margin in those areas. To be fair, you probably end up kicking yourself down the line for some reason whichever one you get, but see if any have extra features like disk encryption, better software/toolbox. To further confuse matters, you also have the Kingston and Samsung drives in that price range. Or you could save yourself a few quid for a mostly negligible difference in real-world performance and go for something like the Crucial M4, Sandisk Extreme or the Intel 330. Like I say it depends where you need performance, the cheaper drives handily outperform the more expensive ones in some areas.

Has anyone bought and using one of these, I've narrowed my choices down to one of these and and the corsair performance pro, I've decided against the intel 520 due to it being sandforce, basically I want a great all rounder that generally rocks the windows inviroment, gaming is secondary, the pro suites that role and as I said before its toggle nand, though I'm leaning towards the vertex 4 as I can see getting a hell of alot more muscle with future firmware updates, I'm ordering next week if it comes down to it I shall flip a coin lol...

Crucial M4 can now be had for ~£89 at Scan: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/128gb...-s-new-version
As I said, real-world performance shouldn't be noticeably different, and for that price...

Is it worth to buy this ssd now or is it better to hold off to see what the competiton brings out?

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Originally Posted by watercooled

Crucial M4 can now be had for ~£89 at Scan: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/128gb...-s-new-version
As I said, real-world performance shouldn't be noticeably different, and for that price...

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Yh thats very cheap for ssd, so is it worth getting it over the vertex 4 and will I even notice the difference in speed between the two?

maybe an update for the article?

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5741/o...-based-silicon


anand is on record as saying the `everest 2` controller is a rebadged marvell chipset

I think my favourite part thing about using the OCZ SSD is that you can start using programs as soon as windows 7 opens. Before, even with a newly installed system, I found that a PC can hang if you interrupt it loading all the system tray programs etc.
Just to add some heads up - apparently SSD's guarantee that even when the drive goes belly up you can still read from it and since most of them now have really good guarantees I'll quite happily buy a new one when this happens.
Downsides - only one really, when I read the reviews I kinda ignored the small file write speed figures because everything else was so fast. I work from home and initially I moved my documents folder over to the SSD - don't - the write speed on my small excel and word docs is very slow - too slow when I need to work hard and fast.

Yes the small file write speeds are important for people who use laptops traditionally. The other thing that put me off this was really mixed reviews of reliability.

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Originally Posted by dontpanic

Yes the small file write speeds are important for people who use laptops traditionally.

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Could you elaborate?