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OCZ Vector 256GB Solid State Drive Review

OCZ Vector 256GB Solid State Drive Review

This is officially the first consumer solid state drive from OCZ that is using the new Barefoot 3 controller.  This new controller is designed completely in-house by OCZ.  OCZ is touting this new drive as the standard for performance users and it offers sequential read and write speeds of 550MB/s and 530MB/s respectively.  The Vector is available in 128GB, 256GB and 512GB versions and OCZ is backing it with a 5 year warranty.  Will this be the drive that saves OCZ and puts them back on track or is the the last ditch effort of a dying company?  Time will only tell.

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OCZ Shows Off Vector SSD at IDF

OCZ Shows Off Vector SSD at IDF

Yesterday at the Intel Developer Forum 2012 OCZ was quietly giving a sneek peek at their new Vector solid state drive. The Vector drive is built on Indilinx’s latest Barefoot 3 controller. This controller is completely built from the ground up by Indilinx (the Barefoot 2 used Marvell technology). Maybe this new controller will fix the single thread issue we saw with drives based on the Barefoot 2 controller. The Vector drive also sports 2x nm MLC NAND, and a SATA 6.0 Gbps interface.

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