OCZ SSD Agility 60GB MLC SATA300

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 6 expert reviews

Excellent:

6
Good:

0
Average:

0
Bad:

0

Pros:

Fast boot times, High performance
Strong read and write performance, Write performance actually exceeds the published specifications, Quick access times, Blend of strong performance and competitive pricing
Performs as advertised, Aggressively priced, Uses the Indilinx Barefoot controller

Cons:

Low capacity for the price compared to HDDs
No goodies included to aid in the installation/upgrade process, "Competitive pricing" still means over $200 for 60GB of storage

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Last revision on August 12, 2011

Reviewers Liked

Fast boot times, High performance
Strong read and write performance, Write performance actually exceeds the published specifications, Quick access times, Blend of strong performance and competitive pricing
Performs as advertised, Aggressively priced, Uses the Indilinx Barefoot controller
Excellent speeds overall, Nicely made, Super fast read speeds

Reviewers Didn't Like

Low capacity for the price compared to HDDs
No goodies included to aid in the installation/upgrade process, "Competitive pricing" still means over $200 for 60GB of storage
Write speeds are a bit slow

Expert reviews and ratings

When you’re in the market for an SSD you have to first get over the sticker shock from the dropping but still high prices. OCZ brings the Agility in to bridge the gap between cheap but slower standard hard drives and the much more expensive high...

By LanOC Reviews on March 19, 2010

The OCZ Agility’s performance isn’t the slowest we’ve seen. In fact, while it bounces back and forth between the 64GB V-Plus at the start, it’s in the loaded state that it thrives. When the Agility and the 64GB V+ SSD’s...

By FutureLooks on March 02, 2010

The OCZ Agility 60GB SSD is a perfect first SSD for the user looking for a speedy boot drive for a new computer. The OCZ Agility 60GB SSD probably doesn't have enough storage to be your sole storage drive, but it is a great boot drive. blog comments...

By I4U on January 21, 2010

From looking at these Linux results gathered from Ubuntu 9.10 running atop an EXT4 file-system, the benefits of an SLC SSD over MLC is very clear. Both the Agility and Agility EX sport 64MB of onboard cache and are similar in terms of features except...

By Phoronix on November 09, 2009

100

It is nice to see OCZ trying to get more solid state drives out there to the mainstream. By using different NAND chips on the Agility they are able to make it more affordable for consumers. There really is not a huge speed difference between the...

By ThinkComputers on October 06, 2009

The OCZ Agility Series SSD is easily one of the best choices if you’re looking to replace or upgrade the hard drive in your laptop or netbook in terms of capacity, performance and pricing. Others at the same price point have lower performance...

By Testfreaks on September 24, 2009

The mainstream Agility series is expected to offer the most appealing price/performance ratio. Every Agility model is based on a full-featured Indilinx Barefoot IDX110M00 controller which works with MLC flash memory and 64 megabytes of...

By X-bit Labs on July 01, 2010

Solid state drives are built with high performance in mind and OCZ's Agility certainly delivers the goods. Not only does it turn in some great numbers in our synthetic benchmarks, although not quite as good as the drive's specifications suggest,...

By Neoseeker on January 26, 2010

The OCZ Technology 60GB Agility solid state drive offers impressive performance in both read and write testing. It came close to achieving its rated sequential read speed of 230MB/s in each benchmark, but what was particularly impressive was that it...

By Bigbruin on December 15, 2009

Ci siamo occupati più volte di SSD e abbiamo sempre rilevato buone performance, specialmente se confrontate con quelle dei vecchi dischi rotativi. Per la prima volta però abbiamo avuto l'impressione reale che il famoso "collo di...

By PcHS.IT on February 08, 2010

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