Upcoming OCZ Vertex SSD’s Boast Excellent Write Speeds

As I’ve mentioned in previous SSD-related news posts, as the months pass, the drives become larger and much faster, and that still holds true right now as it did a year ago. Heck, even the past few months. Recall when Intel released their ultra-fast 80GB X25-M. At $600, it offered 80GB, 250MB/s Read and 70MB/s Write. All-around impressive. But today, you can get an OCZ 120GB offering, featuring 230MB/s Read and a staggering 160MB/s Write… for around $300. That’s without question, impressive.

The best part is that things are constantly improving, and by the time S-ATA 6Gbps rolls around, we’re likely to see storage solutions that exceed far beyond what we’re dealing with even today. As DailyTech finds out, it won’t be long before we’re able to see yet another upgrade from OCZ, in their form of their Vertex.

Although the specs haven’t been finalized, internal testing at OCZ have revealed a top-end Write speed of 240MB/s, with the Read speed sticking to a constant 250MB/s. Obviously, some fancy RAID controller action must be going on, but even still. My only complaint about the previously-mentioned X25-M was its lackluster Write speed (it’s slower than most mechanical drives), but here we have drives up and above 200MB/s. Insane. Just imagine what the next six months will bring!

The Vertex series, which uses an Indilinx Barefoot SSD controller, was originally specified at 200MB/s sequential read and 160MB/s sequential write. However, OCZ’s internal tests show up to 250MB/s sequential read and 240MB/s sequential write speeds. These tests were conducted on an empty drive, and will not officially be presented to consumers. However, it gives an indication of how fast the final drives will be and allows some results to be inferred.