OCZ Summit 250GB SATA2 SSD
PCMark Vantage
Published: 29th June 2009 | Source: OCZ | Price: £552 |
PCMark Vantage
PCMark Vantage may sound like potentially the most 'synthetic' benchmark on the market, but this couldn't be further from the truth. In a whitepaper published by Futuremark (developers of 3DMark and PCMark) they describe how PCMark mimics actual PC usage by performing application launches, web browsing, video playback, photo editing, file searching, and other day-to-day tasks. This potentially makes PCMark Vantage the most 'real world' benchmark of them all, and therefore we will be breaking down the HDD Suite benchmark into its various sections in the graphs to give you the whole picture.
Results Analysis
The OCZ Summit and Vertex were evenly matched, with perhaps the Summit just squeezing out on top in a couple of tests. However, the Summit fell short in the media department, falling well behind the OCZ Vertex in both media player and movie maker tests. Worst of all was the media centre test where the Summit finished lmiddle of the pack.. This is possibly an anomoly though as throughout the other tests, no such problems were encountered.
Let's have a look at some real world tests...
Most Recent Comments
Great review mate....shame about the price though... is twice as much as the bloody pc i am usin...
Yeah I hear ya on the price. Still when people are paying £100 for 30GB I guess it's not so bad lol especially when you consider this is no 'run of the mill' drive.
intel or was it samsung are releasing some cheaper SSDs in the next couple of weeks. Wonder what they'll be like.
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Yeah I hear ya on the price. Still when people are paying £100 for 30GB I guess it's not so bad lol especially when you consider this is no 'run of the mill' drive.
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It greatly depends on the amount of cache the drives carry. Cheap drives usually mean less cache and I would be very hesitant before buying a drive with little/no cache as you will get stutter problems.
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Originally Posted by name='w3bbo'
It greatly depends on the amount of cache the drives carry. Cheap drives usually mean less cache and I would be very hesitant before buying a drive with little/no cache as you will get stutter problems.
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Yipes!!
That's blisteringly fast. Pant-wettingly expensive, but wow such speed.
/green with envy.
That's blisteringly fast. Pant-wettingly expensive, but wow such speed.
/green with envy.
what are ocz thinking! £500 for abit of pcb and chips, i dont think they know the world is in debt
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Originally Posted by name='w3bbo'
It greatly depends on the amount of cache the drives carry. Cheap drives usually mean less cache and I would be very hesitant before buying a drive with little/no cache as you will get stutter problems.
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Pricing is ultimately outrageous, I didn't see anything significant that seperated it from it's vertex partner.
More or less agree with the Mediocre sum-up, u would expect a cheap 3.5 adaptor to be in there as standard.
Packaging wize, I think they're very nervous about making it a good one - criticism then may be that £552, they should charge £499 and keep it very oem.
Good luck to them milking users tbh. They feel the 250g drive is worth more than 2x GTX 285.
Once data is in the RAM the harddrive is hardly touched. At that price there is no need for it. Are they stupid?
I have a suspicion also that they're looking at Ultra320 prices, controllers and drives, and thinking "if they can charge that much, so can we".
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