OCZ Vector 512GB Review + BenchMarks ~ Saad Reviews (Reviews + Benchmarks)

SSDs are the most important for many gaming PC today, whether its Desktop or Laptop. SSDs are available in many varieties with respect to price and performance, OCZ has been a contender for top position in the market and they give Corsair a tough time always and their new SSD OCZ Vector has been famous these days all over the work. Today we are going to take a look at OCZ Vector SSD of 512GB.

OCZ made really great performance SSDs and they are really famous in the people for their reliability as well.Today we Review the New OCZ Vector series SSD. OCZ Vector 512GB SSD. There has rarely been such a polarizing company as OCZ, at least outside of the GPU market. Virulent detractors pounce on any excuse to bash OCZ for the slightest of indiscretions, mainly stemming from the discontent fomented during the SandForce BSOD problems . In contrast, legions of computer hardware enthusiasts snap up OCZ’s latest SSDs as soon as these are available, and then post prolifically to OCZs bustling forums.By all rights, part of the troubles that OCZ has experienced over the years has been due to its willingness to embrace new technologies and bring those to market faster than the competition. Some decry this as OCZ "beta testing" on its customer, while others classify it as OCZ simply beating its competition to market.

In reality OCZ has done more to bring the average consumer SSD technology than perhaps any other solid state drive company. With the launch of the Indilinx Barefoot-powered Vertex series of SSDs OCZ countered Intel's ridiculously high priced products and brought the guy on the street SSDs at realistic price points. Along the way OCZ has transitioned and changed extensively to focus on the lucrative SSD market. OCZ also made some very solid acquisitions to strategically place the company into the driver’s seat as it has expanded into the enterprise space and began to develop its own SSD controller. Acquring Solid Data, Indillinx, PLX technologies, and SANRAD has positioned OCZ perfectly for developing a tremendous patent portfolio, currently at ~100 and climbing. OCZ is utilizing its newly acquired IP to develop exciting new products for the consumer and enterprise space. The "holy grail" of owning the controller IP it uses reduces margins tremendously, and puts OCZ in full control of any issues should those arise. OCZ is claiming this drive is all-around fast, and can not only read and write like the dickens but also boasts extremely high IOPS performance and longevity, as it is backing the drive with an impressive five-year warranty. It uses 25nm ONFI synchronous MLC NAND flash, feels extremely solid and even looks pleasing to the eye with its radiused edges. It’s also just 7mm thick, so it should fit into some Ultrabooks.
It rides the SATA 6Gb/s interface, and supports TRIM, garbage collection, SMART and ECC error-correcting, and ships with a 3.5-inch bay adapter as well as a copy of Acronis drive cloning software. Of course, all of these features and endurance don’t come cheap, and the Vector is priced right at the tippy-top of the price range for 256GB SSDs, hovering next to the Samsung 840 Pro at $270.In testing the Vector’s performance was extremely impressive, as it ran neck-and-neck with our returning champion, the Samsung 840 Pro, and it also edged out the Corsair Neutron GTX in some tests as well, making it one of the fastest SSDs we have ever tested. In our sequential read and write tests using CrystalDiskMark, the Vector was nicked at the line by the Samsung drive, but it was a tight race as the Vector sat right around 500MB/s for both read and write speeds, which is top-of-the-charts. In our ATTO 64k compressible data test the Vector basically saturated the SATA interface completely, burying the needle at 522MB/s write speed and 514MB/s read speeds, again, bringing it neck-and-neck with the Samsung 840 Pro. This was the only test where the Vector had a clear advantage over the Corsair Neutron GTX.When it comes to low-depth 4K queues, the Vector ran slightly behind the Samsung drive in AS SSD, which is a “worst case scenario” test that uses incompressible data and hits the drive with a small workload of four commands in a queue. This is designed to test an average desktop user’s workload, and we saw it trailing the Samsung slightly in read speeds but dominating in write speeds. When we increased the workload to a 32-command queue in Iometer, the Vector took second place overall behind the Neutron GTX at 80k IOPS, both of which are substantially faster than the Samsung 840 Pro. The Vector SSD series is rated to deliver 20GB of writes per day for 5 years, which equates to a total of 36.5TB’s of written data. OCZ also provides a full 5-year warranty with all Vector drives, so that should provide users with some peace of mind.As a side note, OCZ says that the Barefoot 3 controller has endured a robust and lengthy validation cycle and was distributed to a large network of beta testers. OCZ has talked a lot about quality, which is important when discussing any storage device, and I'm sure they want to move away from the issues caused by the second generation SandForce controller used in the Vertex 3 series.

The OCZ Vector is a very nice Solid State Drive and it is really fast and all the latest technology is inside in this new SSD with the great capacity of 512 GB which is more than enough and now I think it is time to replace my HDD with 3x OCZ Vector 512GB SSDs. It is fast, consistant and latest, it has New SandForce controller which really improves the performance very much and No doubt, its fastest 512GB SSD available today. The only thing which is against is high price but with the time, prices will decrease but if you want the BEST and have money, go and get it.