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OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD Review

Discussion in 'Articles and Reviews Comments' started by Julio Franco, Apr 14, 2011.

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  1. Steve TechSpot Staff

    "Third party embedded solutions such as the Marvell 88SE9128 can provide motherboards with SATA 6Gb/s support, but offer very poor results compared to Intel's implementation. That said, there is a new Marvell 88SE9182 controller that can mimic the performance of Intel's 6 series chipsets, so support for the 6Gb/s SATA is improving."

    So in short NO...
    Steve, Apr 18, 2011
    #21

  2. Jurassic4096 Banned

    Using a Crucial C300 64GB I can do a complete restart in 35 seconds From the loading screen it takes ~10 seconds to reach desktop and I'm using SATA II.
    Jurassic4096, Apr 20, 2011
    #22

  3. Guest

    I don't understand your comment: "The OCZ Vertex 3 and Crucial RealSSD C300 were tested using SATA 6Gb/s, requiring us to use the Sandy Bridge (LGA1155) platform"
    I've an ASUS P6X58D PREMIUM motherboard and it supports SATA 6Gb/s?
    Guest, Apr 27, 2011
    #23

  4. Steve TechSpot Staff

    From the review...

    "Third party embedded solutions such as the Marvell 88SE9128 can provide motherboards with SATA 6Gb/s support, but offer very poor results compared to Intel's implementation. That said, there is a new Marvell 88SE9182 controller that can mimic the performance of Intel's 6 series chipsets, so support for the 6Gb/s SATA is improving."

    You have the Marvell 9123 which is even worse.
    Steve, Apr 27, 2011
    #24

  5. Guest

    Thanks and on which motherboards does the new Marvell 88SE9182 controller appear?
    Guest, Apr 28, 2011
    #25

  6. Steve TechSpot Staff

    The new Gigabyte G1.Killer range uses the new Marvell 88SE9182 controller. I am not sure how many other boards have picked it up just yet.
    Steve, Apr 28, 2011
    #26

  7. Guest

    Um... I will probably use that much up really quickly. I often record gameplay with Fraps, and that gets to about 200 gigs or so an hour at 1080p. I will then compress the video and delete all of the old fraps files. Also, SSDs degrade as they get worn, so although it would still work, it would be a lot slower.
    Guest, May 20, 2011
    #27

  8. Steve TechSpot Staff

    The idea would be to save the 200 gigs of you pulling off headshots in 1080p on a secondary hard drive. Also have you heard of TRIM, it makes your last statement inaccurate.
    Steve, May 20, 2011
    #28

  9. Steve TechSpot Staff

    Steve, May 25, 2011
    #29

  10. Guest

    You mention a performance hit if used with SATA 2. Is the hit any worse than the factor of 2 in the interface speed? To ask another way, on a SATA 2 system, would the Vertex 3 drive perform as well as a Vertex 2?
    Guest, Aug 12, 2011
    #30
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