Friday, July 22, 2011

Oh my god OCZ Technology Vertex 2 Series 480 GB SATA II 3.5-Inch Solid State Drive OCZSSD3-2VTX480G

OCZ OCZSSD3-2VTX480G

Don't believe everything you read - these drives have a bad rep for use with OS X due to incompatibility with earlier firmware versions.This drive shipped with 1.27, which worked flawlessly in my ancient Mac Pro (MacPro2,1). My system now boots in under 5 seconds, as opposed to just under 30 with the original stock 7200RPM drive.The speed difference is unbelievable - running XBench and NovaBench both before and after swapping out the original 7200RPM drive show a 10-fold increase in some drive speed tests, and nearly 100-fold in others.Put simply - if you can afford it, there is no better upgrade you can give your Mac Pro.0 of people found the following review helpful. Designed to excel in both sequential and random read/write speeds up to 50,000 4KB random write IOPS, the 3.5" Vertex 2 OCZ OCZSSD3-2VTX480G maximizes productivity when using as a primary storage or boot drive, minimizing program load times and completing tasks with blazing speed OCZ Vertex 2 SATA II 3.5" Solid State Drives deliver the same industry-leading performance as the 2.5" edition in a OCZ OCZSSD3-2VTX480G larger, lower cost per gigabyte form factor to easily integrate into desktop applications without the need to install additional hardware Using the latest controller technology, the 3.5" Vertex 2 provides a faster, more responsive PC experience complete with TRIM support to keep your drive operating at peak performance in Windows 7 systems Max Read: up to 250 MB/s, Max Write: up to 240 MB/s, Sustained OCZ OCZSSD3-2VTX480G Write: up to 200 MB/s, 4k Random Write (Aligned): 18,000 IOPS, Seek time: 0.1 ms Life Expectancy: 2 million hours Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF), Reliability: ECC: 27 OCZ OCZSSD3-2VTX480G bytes of redundancy per 512 bytes data, up to twelve 9-bit symbols correctable ... »» Read more...

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