OCZ Vertex 460 SSD Review (240GB) – Great Performance At An Awesome Price!

TECHNOLOGY X TEST BENCH AND PROTOCOL

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SYSTEM COMPONENTS

BENCHMARK SOFTWARE

For analytical purposes, Technology X uses benchmark software that is easily accessible for the consumer. Furthermore, our equipment is only “fine tuned” using the SSD Optimization Guide, meaning that CPU clock speeds have not been adjusted. The software we will be using for today’s analysis is typical of many of our reviews and consists of ATTO Disk Benchmark, Crystal Disk Info, Crystal DiskMark, AS SSD, Anvil Storage Utilities and PCMark Vantage.

CRYSTAL DISK INFO 5.5.0

Crystal Disk Info is a great tool for displaying the characteristics and health of storage devices. It displays everything from temperatures, to the number of hours the device has been powered, and even to the extent of informing you of the firmware of the device.

We can see that OCZ will let us monitor the SSD through its life cycle by the way of SMART attribute identification, and we can also see that the OCZ Vertex 460 SSD is equipped with TRIM. Furthermore, this drive originally came to us with a fair bit of usage on it, but this was due to some initial testing that was performed on the drive as it was part of the first set of drives to be manufactured. As you will see throughout the remainder of the review this usage does not affect the drive’s performance, which says a lot regarding the high-quality build of the OCZ Vertex 460.

ATTO DISK BENCHMARK VER. 2.47

ATTO Disk Benchmark is a relatively easy-to-use benchmark tool, which happens to be the benchmark of choice for many manufacturers. ATTO uses compressible data rather than random data, which results in higher performance and thus, higher benchmark scores. In our testing, we have selected the transfer size to range from 0.5KB to 8192KB, and have set the total length of the test to be 256MB.

As we can see above, the Vertex 460 illustrates great performance with initial results of 552 MB/s read and 534 MB/s write. Of course this is testing with compressible data, so lets take a more in-depth look at how the drive performs when we start looking at files that are incompressible or random.