OCZ Vector 256GB Solid State Drive Review

System Overview & Testing Procedures
Once you have your drive installed and formatted you will see you have 238GB of usable space.

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Opening up CrystalDiskInfo we can see all of the information about the drive.  It supports S.M.A.R.T., NCQ and most importantly TRIM.

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For testing the drive we will be using the following benchmarking programs, we have provided links to each so you can run the benchmarks on your drive for comparison.

HDTune Pro (download)
ATTO Disk Benchmark (download)
CrystalDiskMark 64bit (download)
AS SSD Benchmark (download)
Anvil Storage Utility Professional (download)

We also made these optimization changes…
– No power saving options in the BIOS
– ACHI enabled in the BIOS
– Windows 7 User Account Control (UAC) is disabled
– Windows 7 power saving settings are disabled

So let’s get into testing!

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