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OCZ Vertex Drive Certified - Marketed 'For Mac'
Apr/08/09 15:56 Filed in: Mac SSD
As of Spring 2009, the Vertex solid-state drive is OCZ's top performing MLC SSD drive. A next-generation controller chip coupled with 64mb of onboard cache gives this SATA II solid-state disk superlative Read - and most importantly - equally impressive Write performance. The OCZ Vertex line delivers a VERY, very fast SSD
to rival the one to beat: the Intel X25-M 80GB MLC drive
-- but the Vertex delivers 120GB of capacity for about the same amount of money.Today, OCZ announced a "Mac Edition" model of the Vertex supposedly certified by Apple. Whether there's special Firmware tweaks involved to optimize performance on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or 10.5 Leopard was unknown till a day or two later: Supposedly the Mac version's quoted speeds are throttled back a bit to better match OSX's drivers. This isn't THAT big of a deal, OCZ did the same detuning to the Apex Firmware to make it perform better OVERALL rather than appease the flat-out fastest of the benchmarking NERDS who are out to shave precious micro-seconds off their trivial geeked-out lives. Regardless, the Vertex is faster than snot, affordable - and most importantly -- it's nice to have OCZ recognize the value in speaking to Apple Computer's ever-growing market share.
SSD Announcements - It's Like Changing Diapers - Daily
Dec/10/08 10:21 Filed in: SSD Hardware
SSD drive manufacturers TALK first - SHIP product in quantity LATER. So there's a lag between technological developments and when it reaches the consumer marketplace. It makes it hard to commit to an SSD drive purchase when something bigger, better gets announced every week.
Today - OCZ Technology Group announced a successor to their CORE Series - The VERTEX SSD product line with their newest architecture and controller design complete with 64MB of cache to offer faster transfers and superior overall system response. The Vertex Series promises performance and reliability of SSDs at less price per gigabyte than other high speed offerings currently on the market and offers the latest breakthroughs in MLC SSD technology:New architecture and controller design, 200MB/sec read and 160MB/sec write speeds. Yowza! Won't be long and even a SATA II 300mbps drive bus will be saturated by data flying out the SSD. I feel a new SATA III 600mbps spec coming on, don't you?
