OCZ Vertex 4 512gb

[GFDuke]

I just picked one up. I was running 4 60gb Vertex 3's in my gamer in RAID 0 and one just keeps droppping out. 3 times was 3 times to many. So i decided to just go with a single drive and i wanted space. So i picked up the 512. The thing rocks for a single drive and the supprt over at OCZ forums is awesome.

Some benchmarks.

[Witchdoctor]

Nice Drive mang :thumbsup:

[ThreeDhero]

512gb ssd, grats.

[Kal-EL]

Thx for sharing the info!
512 is beastly, how much it run u?

[rickss69]

I'm considering one, but probably not that large for the gamer. Like you, I have about six smaller ssd's lying around but doubt their reliability run in RAID for an extended period of time. One thing that holds me back is I just don't know how long one of these will last.

[GFDuke]

Thx for sharing the info!
512 is beastly, how much it run u?

5 bills on my New Egg account. There are a few over at XS for sale for 3 bills i was looking at. But I just decided not to go with used.

[GFDuke]

I'm considering one, but probably not that large for the gamer. Like you, I have about six smaller ssd's lying around but doubt their reliability run in RAID for an extended period of time. One thing that holds me back is I just don't know how long one of these will last.

The reason i went with the 512 besides space is that, like any drive once you get past 50-60% they start to slow down. Even more so with platter drives.

As far as life length....It will last long enough that when its too old to use, the technology will be so obsolete that you'll want something else anyway.

[MaadDaawg]

I've had trouble like yours with 60GB SSDs in RAID. A real PITA :P

Should probably sell the RAID card :morpheus:

[rickss69]

Was trying to determine just how long would one last... would hate to invest $500 in a drive that was toast after 12 months.

Interesting read... http://phys.org/news/2012-12-taiwan-defeat-limits-memory.html#jCp

[GFDuke]

I've had trouble like yours with 60GB SSDs in RAID. A real PITA :P

Should probably sell the RAID card :morpheus:

I don't use my Raid card anymore. The intel Raid is better. Especially now that it has 6gb speeds. Only reason i bought a RAID card was for pc05 benching. I never used it for d my daily. One reason was the extremly slow load time.

@Rick...I am sure it would last alot longer than 12 months. How long will it last? I have really never looked into it. But this one has a 5 year warranty. I'll probably want something else by then. lol

[rickss69]

Any downside to one of these? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147190

I see the 3 year warranty on the Samsung, but having difficulty finding the specifics of the 5 year OCZ.

[Witchdoctor]

I would have to think the 840 would be better than the 830, but I do not know that. I do know if you can find an 830 are freaking rockets as I have two of them

Sammies are all I use these days, never even had so much as a hicup with them

[rickss69]

I put one in the cart...still thinking on it. Can get an extended warranty of one to two years beyond the manufacturer's for $35 or $60.

[Witchdoctor]

Look s like a good deal, found some 830's over at Amozon, but they want like 5 bills for them :ohcrap:

Bastards ..............

I'm still stuck using 4x 128 GB drives by committy :blush:

[GFDuke]

Any downside to one of these? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147190

I see the 3 year warranty on the Samsung, but having difficulty finding the specifics of the 5 year OCZ.

http://www.ocztechnology.com/ocz-vertex-4-sata-iii-2-5-ssd.html#overview

Warranty
http://www.ocztechnology.com/support/warranty/

[Witchdoctor]

I get reads and writes

so what is Iops ? see that a lot..


Always thought it was a place to eat breakfast .........................:laughing:

Edit:

@ HOF

Just found this, bet he would take $ 275.00


.53 cents a gig

http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/showthread.php?t=366521

[GFDuke]

IOPS = Input/Output Operations Per Second

[Witchdoctor]

how does that effect the read / wrie performance, as Many of the Max op's drive are on par with everything else out there, right around 500/300 give or take a few

[GFDuke]

Some reading material. Cause i don't have the answers. lol

http://recoverymonkey.org/2012/07/26/an-explanation-of-iops-and-latency/

[Witchdoctor]

So just another number to confuse the consumer and typically a usless number unless paired with a latenancy figure, and being all the manufactures use different latancy figures if any at all it is meaningless to try to compair drive a to drive b unless the same latancy is used for the comparison ............

DUCZXn9RZ9s

Kool ........... :blink:

Good read bro

Thanks ... :thumbsup:

[GFDuke]

One hundred billion IOPS…

[Witchdoctor]

:rofl

[Kal-EL]

Hey does that bench work wit hdd?

[Witchdoctor]

My WD Black was 25 minutes into it and I said eff it ......... LOL

[GFDuke]

Hey does that bench work wit hdd?

Yes.

It takes my SSD about 1 min 20sec.

[Kal-EL]

Hahahahahahaha its taking forebber to run!!

[Kal-EL]

Not terribly inspiring huh?

6601

[GFDuke]

lmao Probably dosn't feel that slow when ur running them though. Besides its a benchmark for ssd's not hdd's so i'm sure that has something to do with it. Try Atto. http://www.attotech.com/products/product.php?sku=Disk_Benchmark

[Kal-EL]

Link wants me to register my kids before downloading. We got this one on the ftp?

[GFDuke]

Sorry try this. I'll put it on the FTP also. Run it on stock settings.


http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/1749/ATTO%20Disk%20Benchmark%20v2.46.html

[Kal-EL]

Howz this?
6603

[GFDuke]

Pretty good for hdd's. :thumbsup:

Do you have disk indexing disabled? Are those in RAID 0? Whats your stripe size? Eight of them right?

My single Seagate Barracuda 500gb.

[rickss69]

My WD 1TB -

http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq69/rickss69/PC%20Gaming/Atto-1TB.jpg

[Kal-EL]

Pretty good for hdd's. :thumbsup:

Do you have disk indexing disabled? Are those in RAID 0? Whats your stripe size? Eight of them right?

My single Seagate Barracuda 500gb.

Its a few years old install, pretty sure I disabled indexing. Raid 0, thought I had 8 but its 6 in raid 0 and two pass thru drives. Stripe is 4k.

[Neuromancer]

The reason i went with the 512 besides space is that, like any drive once you get past 50-60% they start to slow down. Even more so with platter drives.

As far as life length....It will last long enough that when its too old to use, the technology will be so obsolete that you'll want something else anyway.

The indilinx controller drops in speed when doing s a sustained transfer of over 50% free space reminaing , not once it is 50% full. EG When empty if you transfer 300GB to the 512GB drive teh first 256GB transfers at full speed the remainder drops in performance

Another EG... the drive is 256GB full. you will have full performance with writes up to 128GB in transfer space. 200GB would run 128 at full and the remainder at reduced rates. (about HDD speeds)

this only effects write speed BTW...

Read performance is never effected by amount of data on the drive.

Write performance will remain consistent up to the size of the nand used on the PCB.
If 8x16GB NANDs are used the drive performans flawlessly until less than 16GB remains free. After that point it can no longer write equally to all nand cells. Bear in mind it STILL does. so performance does not drop a hell of a lot.

the Vertex 4 drives are the only drives that i know that drop from sustained writes...

http://www.techreaction.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/aida-write.jpg

Had to go back a ways to show a aida64linear write chart. owc eXTREME PRO 6g

http://www.techreaction.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/aida-write1.jpg

Perfect performance from start to finish. thats the sandforce controller though not the marvell, I mean indilinx used in the Vertex 4




While it is true that SSDs will drop in performance a small amount as they fuill up it is no where close to how much HDDs do.

[GFDuke]

I stand corected. Thanks