OCZ Storage Solutions was acquired by Toshiba, and they’ve been repurposed as Toshiba’s consumer/enthusiast brand for solid state storage. Benchmark Reviews has previously tested both the budget OCZ Trion SSD and the premium OCZ RD400 m.2 PCIe SSD; the new...
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Join as we review the latest storage spawn from Toshiba, the Toshiba OCZ VX500 series SSDs. This new model positions itself in the mainstream SSD segment fighting with the Samsung EVO series, Crucial MX300 and comparable SSDs in both price...
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The mainstream OCZ VX500 SSD from Toshiba falls between the RD400 and the value-oriented TR150; with 15nm MLC Flash and capacities up to 1TB, the VX500 does also come with 5 years of warranty and an endurance between 74 and...
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OCZ Storage Solutions is now a subsidiary of Toshiba, and they’ve been repurposed as Toshiba’s “enthusiast” brand for solid state storage. Prior to the Toshiba acquisition, OCZ’s “RevoDrive” PCIe SSDs used proprietary memory boards with multiple SSD controllers on a...
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We’ve tested one other TLC NAND drive recently, the MyDigitalSSD BP5e. We found that while this drive has made some progress on the performance front relative to other TLC drives, there were still significant limitations in sustained write speeds and...
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OCZ updated their Trion series SSDs towards Trion 150, at launch they will out four models. In a saturated and dense market, budget is trivial. The new Trion 150 series are all about value. It is an SSD series that...
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Our review unit came in a relative compact, brown corrugated cardboard box from OCZ’s Taiwanese headquarters to us here in Calgary, Alberta, Canada using UPS Saver. Since I was on vacation at that time, my colleague Aaron Lai took the...
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Yes, in a storage world dominated by the big guns like Micron and Samsung margins are getting smaller and smaller. OCZ needed to address that to get the price per gigabyte down and offer a competitive solution that is fast,...
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The Vector 180 SSD (currently available in 120GB, 240GB, 480GB and 960GB capacities) is based on the latest Barefoot 3 NAND flash controller by OCZ (runs at 397MHz as opposed to the 352MHz of the one found in the ARC...
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Our review unit of the OCZ Vector 180 240GB came in a compact, brown corrugated cardboard box from the company’s Taiwanese headquarters via UPS Saver. As my colleague Aaron Lai puts it, it has traveled OVER 9000 kilometers across the...
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We review the all new OCZ Vector 180 – 480 and 960GB SSDs. Based on an Indiilnx Barefoot 3 controller the product comes with the latest iteration of Toshiba NAND flash memory. The end result is an SSD series that...
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It’s been quite a while since OCZ released the ARC 100 line of SSDs (roughly 7 months ago) so to make up for that on our test bench we have the 480GB model which is the highest capacity of that...
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For a definite ‘whaaat ?’ moment check this out. Over at CES OCZ has put some cool stuff on display, though Enterprise datacenter oriented this little 3000 MB/sec performing puppy caught our attention. It is a PCIe based NVMe Flash...
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OCZ Storage Solutions has just announced the release of their Vertex 460A. The original Vertex series has been a stellar product with a history that spans back to the original version with the first-gen Indilinx Barefoot controller. Link
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Today’s review unit of the OCZ ARC 100 240GB arrived in a very small, standard brown corrugated cardboard box. The sides were taped with bright red and white tape, which makes it obvious if someone had tampered with our shipment....
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