OCZ Vertex 3.20 240GB SSD Review

The AS SSD software determines the performance of Solid State Drives (SSD). The tool contains five synthetic and three practice tests. The synthetic tests determine the sequential and random read and write performance of the SSD. These tests are performed without using the operating system caches. In Sequential tests the program measures the time it takes to read and write a 1GB file respectively.

Over the older generation drive, the 3.20 as expected does see some performance gains, however incompressible data is still a weak point for the Vertex 3 with a drop in sequential write speeds to 320MB/s.