OCZ Technology 240 GB Vertex 3 SATA III 6.0 Gb/s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive VTX3-25SAT3-240G
Vertex 3 units to a 2.5 "form factor and comes with a 3.5" adapter for this time. For those who have installed desktop. You'll also need a SATA cable to connect it. To get the most from this unit, you will need SATA III (6 GB) port speed of the disk blazzing This is the highest of SATA II.
Drive Bridge of sand of a desktop backup storage for my game and steam Starcraft 2, Vertex 2 60 concert at the OS disk capacity of 223GB formatted a lot of space. For most of the titles that play hard. It 'sa bit of effort to fit in my Steam folder in the third context, it is very easy to accumulate a lot of books through the steam. With a capacity of conventional hard drive is very high that you can make the most of your book is available locally. Unfortunately, this is not the case with the drive capacity. And 'the price to pay for a blistering speed.
You can read a review of theory and experiment indicate that in the real world at the speed of the Vertex 3, but I have focused mainly on improving the user experience benefits from the fact that one of my systems. Copy the 160 steam concert rather than maxing out credit from my hard drive is about 75-80 MB per second magnet are copied in Portal 2, I was playing. the night before. If you have not played a better game with many levels that occur between the rooms. (Or in my case, death) is the time to load my old hard drive magnets of about 15-20 seconds on Vertex 3, the load was reduced from 10 to 15 seconds was enough. Obviously, the better the user experience of me as I spend more time playing, instead of fixing a progress bar.
Starcraft 2 game, I found that the improvement is much more subtle, like the previous game file in one of my Vertex menu seems a bit 'more responsive. But it was the contrast to go from fully magnetic disks, such as World of Warcraft runs a bit 'faster and shave a few seconds to load in the city, or an instance of the Heroes of Newerth seem to be. hit that much. But then again, the configuration for the game is only ~ 500MB.
I plan to install this unit to play the computer, my laptop turned on by the end of the year, such drive, OS / program I'm sure will have a large capacity in an attempt to jam. operating system, application and production of all the games on a single disc.
I currently hold only a third context is the high cost. While I would love to have a second instead of a text first and my second, $ 500 + price tag, not the speed that I can overcome the old unit to almost $ 2 per GB is quite an obstacle to owning one. Vertex 3 drives in this capacity.
I would like to know that this is a favorite from the manufacturer (OCZ) is a consistency of firmware updates for their products. Past experience with the text of the first and second part of the error is minimal revision. But there are some changes that increase efficiency as well. The firmware updates are for a short period of time. Previously, it was not easy to flash the drive with the operating system using the boot disk of the operating system is necessary to continue to build a new firmware for the new OCZ. much better now. Firmware updates are not for inexperienced users or people who drive plugged in and not worry about it again.
Overall, I like my new SSDs, allows me to achieve more in my system with less hassle and wait time. unresponsiveness. Just be sure to schedule the installation of an adequate and appropriate hardware to get the most from your purchase.
Update: April 2012.
In July 2011, OCZ has updated the firmware to 2.15 to solve the security problems that plague the SandForce 2281 controller, I have the firmware as the Agility 3 is the hard disk of my day. 3 points for a large part of my game. I have no problem with stuttering or security that I have experience on how to solve this problem for six months I have been using. The speed is the same as when I was guaranteed the drive and install Windows 7.
OCZ has released the fourth volume of Vertex Control Everest 2: If you write a lot. incompressable for SSD (like video), four text is a good choice. If the waste collection rates and more aggressive. (For non-OSX operating system like TRIM) is very important to continue to buy the third text.
