Hi everyone, I have just bought a 480gb OCZ Vertex 3 SSD in a spanish forum for 600€. I had a 240gb Vertex Model, but in the moment I saw the post selling the other for that price I returned mine quickly and bought this one for almost the same price!!.
I'm here because I have noticed that the advertised specifications that you can see in the ocz data sheet in their site are not so accurate at all. I have the luck of having saved an AJA test of the many I made to my older 240gb model so I can compare both, and with the 240gb OWC 6g Aja benchmark as I saw it in youtube.
· The advertised specifications provided by OCZ are these:
It seems that when you increase the capacity of the disk the number of read IOPS increases and the number of write IOPS decreases, however, the speed peaks seem to be top notch in the 240gb model and decreases al lot in writing in the 480gb model.
· This is the screenshot of my 240gb OCZ Vertex 3 AJA system test transfer speeds that I had saved in my computer:
· And here are my 480gb AJA system test marks. You can see that the speed peaks superpasses 500mb/s in both read an write, and the average read and write speeds are even faster than the 240gb model and the write peaks are a lot faster than advertised...
· Here it is a screenshot of this video, where you can see the AJA system test on a 240gb OWC 6g
· My conclusions, seeing only these AJA tests are that the 240gb Vertex 3 is a little bit slower than the 480gb one that has a lot more power than advertised, since you can see in the screenshot that it has writing speed peaks of over 511mb/s, not 450.
The owc seems to be the faster in write speeds but similar in read speeds, and a little bit slower than the 480gb vertex 3 that reaches 520mb/s.
All these tests have been made on a 8gb ram 2,3ghz quad core 17" 2011 macbook pro and 2.02 OCZ firmware (the original, not updated to 2.06 as it seems to be impossible to me).
It would be great if you post your AJA test benchmarks too
I'm here because I have noticed that the advertised specifications that you can see in the ocz data sheet in their site are not so accurate at all. I have the luck of having saved an AJA test of the many I made to my older 240gb model so I can compare both, and with the 240gb OWC 6g Aja benchmark as I saw it in youtube.
· The advertised specifications provided by OCZ are these:
It seems that when you increase the capacity of the disk the number of read IOPS increases and the number of write IOPS decreases, however, the speed peaks seem to be top notch in the 240gb model and decreases al lot in writing in the 480gb model.
· This is the screenshot of my 240gb OCZ Vertex 3 AJA system test transfer speeds that I had saved in my computer:
· And here are my 480gb AJA system test marks. You can see that the speed peaks superpasses 500mb/s in both read an write, and the average read and write speeds are even faster than the 240gb model and the write peaks are a lot faster than advertised...
· Here it is a screenshot of this video, where you can see the AJA system test on a 240gb OWC 6g
· My conclusions, seeing only these AJA tests are that the 240gb Vertex 3 is a little bit slower than the 480gb one that has a lot more power than advertised, since you can see in the screenshot that it has writing speed peaks of over 511mb/s, not 450.
The owc seems to be the faster in write speeds but similar in read speeds, and a little bit slower than the 480gb vertex 3 that reaches 520mb/s.
All these tests have been made on a 8gb ram 2,3ghz quad core 17" 2011 macbook pro and 2.02 OCZ firmware (the original, not updated to 2.06 as it seems to be impossible to me).
It would be great if you post your AJA test benchmarks too
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