OCZ Vertex 460 240GB Solid State Drive Review

Anvil’s Storage Utilities

Anvil’s Storage Utilities is a new benchmarking utility that we have started using here at eTeknix, it’s completely free to download and has the ability to test mainly hard drives and solid state drives, but also any other form of storage medium that you can throw at it. As well as testing the drive in a variety of benchmarking tests, it also has a drive endurance test that consistently reads and writes data to the selected medium to give days, months and potentially even years of use in a shorter period of time to see how the drive copes in the longer term.

Unconditioned

Conditioned

Anvils Storage Utilities takes a number of drive performance metrics into account as it rates the performance of the Vertex 460 during each of our eight test runs. Following some the test results that we’ve seen on the previous pages, the read and write scores are consistent and positive showing a steady climb in all-round performance as the drive volume fills.

Drive Comparison

For the purpose of drive comparison I use the performance figures from both unconditioned and conditioned tests with 0% data fill.

When we look at the position of the 460 versus the 450, there is a notable difference in the performance recorded – the 460 scoring much lower than expect.