Product Details
- Color: Black
- Brand: OCZ
- Model: OCZSSD2-1VTX30G
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .40" h x
2.80" w x
4.00" l,
.20 pounds
Features
- NAND Flash Components: Multi-Level Cell (MLC) NAND Flash Memory, Interface: SATA II 2.5Gbp/s, Form Factor: 2.5" slim design form factor
- Life Expectancy: 1.5 million hours Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF), Shock Resistance: 1500G, Seek Time: 0.1 ms
- Max Read: up to 210MB/s, Max Write: up to 75 MB/s
- Reliability: BCH: 8 or 12 bits/sector for 128 Bytes spare and 16 bits/sector for 128 Bytes spare size read
- 3-Year Warranty
Product Description
The OCZ Vertex Series delivers the speed and reliability of SSDs at a lower price per gigabyte than other offerings currently on the market and is ideal for mainstream mobile and desktop systems. As the first model to use the Indilinx Barefoot controller, the award-winning OCZ Vertex Series is the result of proven SSD technology that has consistently garnered praise from independent review sites for its outstanding performance. Perfect for a first SSD, the Vertex Series delivers enhanced energy efficiency, increased speed, and superior durability and shock resistance over conventional hard disc drives. The OCZ Vertex drives feature a durable yet lightweight alloy housing, and because OCZ SSDs have no moving parts, the drives are more rugged than traditional hard drives. Designed for ultimate reliability, Vertex Series SSDs come backed a leading three year warranty as well as OCZ's legendary service and support, giving you added peace of mind for your high-performance investment. Furthermore, OCZ continues to support the drives with firmware updates and an active online SSD community
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
By M. Bilodeau
There were some hiccups with early firmware but the new ones seem to ship with the latest and greatest version (1.10).I've got this as my primary drive with Win7 Beta on it. This is probably the best upgrade I've done in awhile. Hard drives have been the system bottleneck for so long. This finally opens that up.Boot up time and application launches are much faster. It makes your computer much more responsive overall. During bootup when you normally have to wait for all the stuff to load before you can actually do something.. that's gone.I recommend the write-up on SSDs at anandtech.com for an overview if you're interested in the technical details.There are some things you need to configure in windows to get the most life out of the drive.1. Disable hibernation2. Disable the pagefile (if you have at least 4GB RAM)3. Disable indexingIf in a pc I'd recommend keeping media (music, pictures, video) on a bigger regular hard drive since 30GB can fill up quickThe OCZ forum is a great resource for tweaks and such.Also this drive is the notebook form factor, so to mount it in a pc you'll need an adapter. OCZ makes one and I think amazon automatically recommends it as an accessory.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
By C. Fraley
I bought the OCZ Vertex 30GB as part of an experiment. I do a lot of audio editing (concert recordings, typically 1+ hours of 96kHz 24-bit = 2.5GB typical) and because of the size of the files I work with, I am often limited by harddrive speed.I used the SSHD to master the last concert recording I worked on. Overall, I'd peg the drive at about 3x faster than my 1TB Seagate. Note that this is NOT a benchmark result, but a stop-watch style comparison of some common operations. Nor can I compare other SSHDs--I was also seriously considering the Intel SSHD, but I could get away with a small capacity, due to how I use the SSHD, so OCZ had a much better, lower-risk price point.For smaller files (e.g. 215MB), the results are even better, but that also becomes a function of how much RAM I have (4GB--3.25GB usable). There are also many audio editing operations that are CPU bound (e.g. noise reduction), so these are not practically faster.System specs: Intel Core 2 Quad 9350, 4GB RAM, 3 SATA Hard Drives, 1 SSHD, Vista.BOTTOM LINE: These are fast, and if the performance gain saves you time in a way that pays for the product, go for it. My conclusion was that the cheap 30GB would pay for itself pretty quickly (and was low-risk), but a RAID of 2 or 3 160GB SSHDs would not (i.e. high cost / high risk). I also saved money by using this drive only for the stuff I'm actively working on--when done, I transfer back to my 1TB hard drive and delete the files from the OCZ. I'm also counting on SSHDs getting faster and cheaper a year from now. So if you're not sure, wait.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
By D. Getz
I got this after reading some informative anandtech articles about SSDs. This drive from OCZ was a great price (under 100 with rebates) and big enough for installing windows and all my productivity programs. I wanted to see what all the hype is about without risking a big investment and since I use several other large normal drives in the same system for storage, a small disk size for just the system was no big deal.After a week of use, I have to say almost all the hype is warranted. The first couple boots to Windows 7 from the drive was definitely shorter, but not OMG shorter, at least it didn't seem that way on my machine. However, my worries vanished after opening a few programs. The speed is absolutely amazing. Firefox, is instant, itunes pops up before you can move your mouse away from where you just double clicked. Office programs are just as fast too. There are some tweaks on the OCZ forums that help get the most out of your drive. Be judicious in their implementation, some aren't necessary, and some get rid of some of the nice Windows 7 interface features that 'bleeding edge power users' deem superfluous, but I happen to like.The latest firmware, 1.4, from OCZ supports TRIM on Windows 7. If you are a non-techie, all you need to know is that this is a very good feature on an SSD that keeps it running fast as you fill it up and use it without you having to worry about it. This feature has to do with when previously used space gets overwritten, and is only an SSD thing. Basically the drive proactively takes out its own trash when space is available from you deleting things (this is on a low bit by bit level, not the 'trash can' in windows). Other drives don't realize the trash needs to be taken out until they need that space for something else, so your drive slows down while the trash is emptied before whatever your writing can be placed in that space. Almost all drives from here forward will have it, but not all manufacturers are offering firmware updates for current or older models with this feature.The biggest thing you start to notice is how slow the computers at work start to feel. Even the supposed 'fastest' ones. I am starting to wonder if I can ask our IT if I can bring my own drive for my work machine. Considering I do spend more time at work on a computer than at home it would be a worthwhile investment...Anyway, so what are the cons? Definitely the size to expense for these things. It is a great add on to a desktop where you can have an SSD working in concert with a large traditional drive for your file storage. 30Gb only on a laptop or netbook with your OS already taking up half of that is probably not doable. For me at least, 250+ for the 60 or 80 Gb drives as a lone drive in a laptop isn't quite worth the expense yet. I imagine by this time next year as prices continue to drop it will be an amazing laptop upgrade too. The added benefits for laptops would be the low power consumption, low heat generation, and the near instantaneous waking from hibernation (a feature i don't often use on my desktops, but do on my laptops).I am looking forward to buying more of these drives for my other machines as the prices continue to drop. These truly have the potential to provide the greatest computer speed increase absolutely noticeable to the user in a decade.
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