OCZ Vertex 2 120GB Solid State Drive Review

Testing – ATTO Disk Benchmark & CrystalDiskMark
Next up we have ATTO Disk Benchmark that measures transfer rates across specific lengths.

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atto graph

The Vertex 2 is pretty much on par with the Corsair F100, which is expected as they are based on the same hardware. CrystalDiskMark is our next test and it has a sequential read / write test as well as a 512k and 4k random read / write test.

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crystal graph

The Vertex 2 and Corsair F100 are pretty close in this test, but the Vertex 2 edges out the F100 in write speeds.

14 comments
  1. Ehm… “For comparison we will be testing the C300 against these 2 other drives…”

    Should this say: “For comparison we will be testing the 'Vertex 2 Extended' against these 2 other drives…”

  2. OCZ Vertex2 120G SSD does not have 13% reserve space but 8%. The “real” chip size is 128. A 100G has 28% reserve space.

  3. The NAND density is actually 2^37 or 137,438,953,472 Bytes.

    The drive density is 120,034,123,776 Bytes.

    That’s 12.66%.

  4. Awesome review, Bob!

    I just picked up this drive to put in my MacBook Pro. Got it for $199cdn after rebate. Man the prices sure have dropped on these things. Can’t wait till they get to $1/GB or less! 😉

  5. Nice to see that you finally made it over to the site Gary! Prices sure are dropping after CES this year things will go down even more! I can’t wait to see what new SSD stuff they are going to show us at CES!

  6. The last time I was on your site I believe it was a previous theme. I
    haven’t been keeping up with PC stuff lately after I switched over to Mac
    (the dark side). 😉

    I love theme of your site. Lookin’ good man. I’ll be back to see what you
    dig up from CES!

  7. The last time I was on your site I believe it was a previous theme. I
    haven’t been keeping up with PC stuff lately after I switched over to Mac
    (the dark side). 😉

    I love theme of your site. Lookin’ good man. I’ll be back to see what you
    dig up from CES!

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