OCZ Vertex 2 60GB Solid State Drive review

I still distinctively recall myself saying this out loud back in the early 2000s. “60GB? What can I do with that!?” As we approach the end of 2010, I caught myself saying the same thing — albeit in an entirely different context. “60GB? What can I do with that!?” In the days where 1000GB hard drives are a dime a dozen, the rise of solid state drives in recent years among enthusiasts and high end computer users has always been focused on one thing: Performance. Sure, you can fill up a 60GB drive with a couple movies and a few songs, but that’s not the point. Because the cost-per-gigabyte of an SSD is probably more than thirty times higher than a traditional mechanical hard drive at the time of writing this review, most users probably can’t afford to use them for mass storage — and at the same time, it is not a practical solution at the time being, either. After all, you probably don’t go through everything in your hard drive every single day, right? Therefore, here is a popular solution for people trying to squeeze more performance out of their system: Buy a modest capacity SSD for your operating system and all your programs, and a big fat hard drive to store everything else. The OCZ Vertex 2 60GB solid state drive we are reviewing today is designed for this very purpose. Powered by the popular SandForce SF-1200 controller, promising up to 285MB/s and 275MB/s read and write speed respectively, 0.1ms access latency, and up to 50,000 IOPS, how well does this high performance storage device improve your computing experience? Read on to find out!

Source: APH Networks

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