OCZ Vertex 120GB SATA2 SSD
HD Tune Pro & ATTO Results
Published: 11th April 2009 | Source: OCZ | Price: 362.24 |
HD Tune Pro
HD Tune Pro is a complete hard disk benchmarking, status and erasing utility by EFD Software. Capable of benchmarking performance across 100% of the disk HDTune is especially useful for mechanical hard drives that have greater performance towards the centre of the platter. As SSD drives do not suffer from any noticeable performance degradation across the entire capacity of the disk, this makes HD Tune an excellent utility for displaying the differences in performance between the two types of media. Our testing procedure involved running both the read and write benchmark tests on each of the drives with screen shots of the results being taken at the end of each benchmark run. The results can be seen below.
OCZ Vertex - READ | WD Caviar Black - READ |
WD Velociraptor - READ | Samsung F1 - Read |
In everything but the burst rate results the Vertex annihilated the competition with an average read speed of almost 100MB/s higher than the rest of the drives. Access time was also naturally good for the SSD drive with a measured speed of 0.2ms - 7ms lower than that of the Velociraptor. Interestingly CPU usage was reported to be 1% higher for the Vertex, but this could easily be attributed to Vista running background processes.
OCZ Vertex - WRITE | WD Caviar Black - WRITE |
WD Velociraptor - WRITE | Samsung F1 - WRITE |
Although slightly more erratic on the HDTune graphs, the write performance of the Vertex 120GB is simply awesome. Managing an average transfer rate of 171.4MB/s - almost double that of the Western Digital Velociraptor, it certainly looks like write performance has come a long way since we last got our hands on an OCZ SSD.
ATTO Disk Benchmark
ATTO Disk Benchmark may be one of the oldest hard disk benchmark utilities still in service, but many would argue that it still remains the best. Unlike HDTune Pro and many other benchmarking utilities, ATTO can be configured to write up to 256MB of data to the disk in file sizes varying from 5KB to 8MB. This is especially useful for SSD drives and indeed RAID configurations where performance can be heavily reliant on the cluster size of the disk. All tests were run with the default settings of 0.5KB through 8192KB transfer sizes with the total length of 256MB
OCZ Vertex | WD Caviar Black |
WD Velociraptor | Samsung F1 |
Starting with the writing of the 256MB file in 0.5K chunks, the Vertex falls behind the other drives by between 3-6MB/s. This defecit is soon made up however once the chunk size hits 4KB with the Vertex matching up to the other drives in the write results and flying ahead in the read results. From chunk sizes 128KB - 8192KB the Vertex performance remains quite consistent with a ~200MB write and ~230MB read speed. As with the HDTune benchmarks, this is more than 2x the speed of the Samsung F1 and Caviar Black drives and almost double that of the Velociraptor.
Most Recent Comments
Nice speeds, the price still lets them down though
*Checks bank balance*
Great performance but surely the cost needs to come down and the capacity up for them to become viable for the mainstream.
Very nice review, thanks for the read.
He would be stupid to run it off an onboard RAID controller! As Monkey said, I hope it is on a dedicated RAID card!
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Originally Posted by name='monkey7'
I hope he's put that on a PCI-e controller? :s I don't think the average northbridge is able of keeping up with that.
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replacing your OS hard disk with an SSD such as the Vertex instead of spending £300 on that 'new' graphics card just makes so much more sense.
A very very valid point, something I've been thinking about for quite a while..
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Originally Posted by name='Luigi'
A very very valid point, something I've been thinking about for quite a while..
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Yes it's expensive, yes it's 1/10th of the size of an F1 which costs 1/3rd of the price, but the performance is something you can see and appreciate.
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Originally Posted by name='Jim'
Yeah for some reason I think quite a lot of people get stuck in the FPS trap. Upgrading to new graphics cards that make absolutely no difference to the games they play (other than fraps results) instead of investing in something like an SSD.
Yes it's expensive, yes it's 1/10th of the size of an F1 which costs 1/3rd of the price, but the performance is something you can see and appreciate. |
The way I see it, my 260 can play all the games I want to play, so upgrading will have virtually no effect apart from emptying my wallet. An SSD on the other hand, will mean that pretty much everything will be noticeably faster- that's worth having
I liked the review Jim, but my wallet didn't
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Originally Posted by name='Bungral'
Jimbo... Please tell me you aren't gonna keep it in the Mac???
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@ £280 for 120g, even if it went at the full bus-capable speed, it's failed immediately.
£120 for 280g is still bad. Old physical drives are going to be rolling out 2Tb drives before we know it.
In all honesty, by the time price comes down, or the tech is overlooked by something more sensible, the performance figures of the product will be completely different.
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Originally Posted by name='Jim'
Lol nah...I thought about it....then i smacked my head against the wall.
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Originally Posted by name='Bungral'
Good man.... We would have had to part ways in our friendship otherwise!
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On another note, the Macbook comes out of suspend in 0.00001 seconds anyway. So no need to reduce boot times
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OCZ Vertex 120GB SATA2 SSD