More SSD love from OCZ with the Vertex Turbo

July 10th, 2009

OCZ have brought out some addtions to their Vertex Turbo SSD series ranging in capacity from 30 GB up to 250 GB. The new SATA II 2.5 inch units can reach read speeds of 270 MB/s and write speeds of 210 MB/s on the 250 GB version. It’s interesting to compare the speeds of the Vertex Turbos against the Corsair and SuperTalent SSDs we have looked at recently. Here’s a breakdown of how the models and capacities match up, for clarity’s sake we have allowed a lee-way on the capacities, for example we’ve assumed that a 30 GB OCZ unit is comparable to a 32 GB unit from the other manufacturers

Model	OCZ Vertex Turbo				SuperTalent UltraDrive LE				Corsair
	30 GB	60 GB	120 GB	250 GB	32 GB	64 GB	128 GB	256 GB	128 GB
Max Read Speed (MB/s)	240	240	270	270	230	230	260	260	220
Max Write Speed (MB/s)	145	145	200	210	160	180	195	200	200
Price	$140	$250	$409	$775	$119	$196	$359	$620	$360

Intriguingly not much benefit, if any, at the smaller capacity end of the scale and even on the 250 GB unit an extra 10 MB/s on both read/write for an extra $155? Please. Of course these figures don’t take into consideration reliability of the units but even so, it would take a lot to persuade us to fork out for an OCZ Vertex Turbo based on these stats. Let us know if you have any of these SSD units and how well they perform.

Source: EnGadget, NewEgg and Amazon