Wednesday, March 6th 2013
OCZ Vector PCIe 960GB Tested, Belts Out 930 MB/s
What's better than an OCZ Vector SSD? Two of them in RAID 0, on a PCIe add-on card. The SSD may use two SSD subunits in RAID, yet it's backed by OCZ's VCA 2.0 (virtualized controller architecture), which lends it TRIM support, even in high-performance RAID 0 modes. At CeBIT, the company ran live benchmarks of the drive. These include tests that are generally lenient on the drives (sequential tests), yet the results are impressive.
To begin with, the Vector PCIe 960 GB belts out up to 929.96 MB/s sequential read speeds, 883.94 MB/s sequential writes; and a comfortable 4K 64-thread read performance of 544.71 MB/s, 486.19 MB/s writes. It scrapes the 1000 MB/s mark in ATTO. In synthetic tests that replicate real-world scenarios, such as ISO file copy, program access, and game resource access, the drive managed to stay above 396 MB/s. The drive has advertised read/write speeds of 1000 MB/s, and random access performance as high as 140,000 IOPS.
Source:
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To begin with, the Vector PCIe 960 GB belts out up to 929.96 MB/s sequential read speeds, 883.94 MB/s sequential writes; and a comfortable 4K 64-thread read performance of 544.71 MB/s, 486.19 MB/s writes. It scrapes the 1000 MB/s mark in ATTO. In synthetic tests that replicate real-world scenarios, such as ISO file copy, program access, and game resource access, the drive managed to stay above 396 MB/s. The drive has advertised read/write speeds of 1000 MB/s, and random access performance as high as 140,000 IOPS.
17 Comments on OCZ Vector PCIe 960GB Tested, Belts Out 930 MB/s
It's a little dated (PCIe x4, Sil controller), but I do know there are some newer cards that hold 1 or 2 2.5" drives or mSATA. Little pressed for time at the moment, otherwise I'd search and link them.
Now with that said, with like this money you can buy 8 SSD's "Samsung SSD 840 Pro 128gb" for about 850euro and put them on RAID 0 Now that is a real hardware! with speeds of at least 2gb/s, and you eliminate a lot of problems for e.g. if one brakes you can fix it no problem and not much data lost, and so on... save your self a headache get a good SSD.
Please correct me if I'm wrong :)
info: Samsung SSD 840 Pro raid0 Review
www.rwlabs.com/article.php?cat=&id=762&pagenumber=1
www.rwlabs.com/article.php?cat=&id=762&pagenumber=6
BTW I have Samsung SSD 840 Pro 258gb and I'm very happy with it, I had two months ago one "OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 Max IOPS 240GB" new from the box and it have died in the first week and I had many other small problems with it.
Do the math! Don't get ripped off.