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OCZ 120 GB Vertex 3 SATA III 6.0 Gb-s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive VTX3-25SAT3-120G

OCZ 120 GB Vertex 3 SATA III 6.0 Gb-s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive VTX3-25SAT3-120G

date : September 27th, 2011

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Intel Core i7-2600K Processor 3.4GHz 8 MB Cache Socket LGA1155

41dGLgJAmNL. SL160 OCZ 120 GB Vertex 3 SATA III 6.0 Gb s 2.5 Inch Solid State Drive VTX3 25SAT3 120G

  • NAND Flash Components: 2Xnm Multi-Level Cell (MLC) NAND Flash Memory, Interface: SATA III 6.0Gbp/s, Form Factor: 2.5″ slim design form factor
  • Life Expectancy: 2 million hours Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF), ECC Recovery: Up to 16 bytes correctable per 512-byte sector
  • Max Read: up to 550MB/s, Max Write: up to 500 MB/s, 4KB Random Write: I/O Per Second (IOPS): 60,000 IOPS, Seek time: 0.1 ms, Controller: SandForce 2281

As the third generation of the legendary VertexSeries,OCZ Vertex3 Solid-state Drives are designed and built to unleash the full potential of the 6Gbps SATA3 interface. The OCZVertex3 pushes the limits in both sequential and random data transfer rates, significantly improving your gaming, multimedia, and overall computing experience over traditional mechanical hard drives. In addition to maximized productivity, a Vertex3 upgrade makes a hard drive- equipped notebook more portable than ever with superior durability and reduced power consumption. Using the latest breakthrough controller and flash technology, Vertex3 SSDs work in perfect harmony with next generation platforms and operating systems to deliver the industry’s best storage solution.

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  1. Sonofvegas // September 27th, 2011 at 4:19 pm
    9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars
    Amazing…but read before you install, August 6, 2011
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    This review is from: OCZ 120 GB Vertex 3 SATA III 6.0 Gb-s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive VTX3-25SAT3-120G (Personal Computers)

    This is an amazing drive. Incredibly fast…. So fast that when my friend turned it on from a full shut down- they thought that it had only woken up from sleep mode and not actually booted all the way up. Incredible…Super fast installs of applications, my CAD and CS5 software work incredibly faster especially in reading multi GB Photoshop files from this drive… My CAD software is set to automatically back up the files every few minutes and on my old spinning hard disk drive whenever it would backup the file, the application would freeze for a moment while it did its thing…With this SSD….the automatic backups are seamless and completely transparent with ZERO interruption to my work….

    BEFORE YOU INSTALL….READ!!!!
    IF YOU ARE INSTALLING THIS ON A NEW 2011 MACBOOK PRO with the newest generation of Intel Quad Core i5 or i7 processors DO NOT INSTALL THE TRIM ENABLER THAT HAS BEEN FLOATING AROUND ON THE INTERNET….this is a hack and not supported by Apple in ANY way. The trim enabler will cause your system to lock up momentarily or even completely. The drive has built in support for TRIM and really there is no major need for TRIM on the Mac OSX operating system anyway….Save hours of your time and just leave it be and it will be fantastic to use.
    If and when apple supports TRIM for these drives then go ahead….but without their official support you are asking for trouble.

    But again….LOVE THIS DRIVE….best upgrade…..also- check out an 8 GB Memory Upgrade from either Corsair or Crucial. Both companies offer great upgrades to these Macbook Pro 2011 hardwares and an 8GB upgrade actually boosts the native built in graphics chip from 384MB to 512MB…..this on all versions of the 2011 Macbook Pros that include the Intel Graphics 3000 chip.

    Offers plenty of space for system files, BIG applications, and a fair amount of extra memory to store files you currently are working with that you need fast access to…I.E. Photoshop files, CAD files, graphics- but the 120GB really isn’t enough to store all your iTunes, iPhotos, etc…so look into OptiBay or an external hard drive if you like to keep EVERYTHING with you.

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  2. oldtaku // September 27th, 2011 at 4:28 pm
    14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars
    So Fast! Here’s how to upgrade., April 14, 2011
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    This review is from: OCZ 120 GB Vertex 3 SATA III 6.0 Gb-s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive VTX3-25SAT3-120G (Personal Computers)

    You want this bad boy as your boot drive – it’s wasted on anything else. Though if you can afford RAIDing these just to hold your mp3 collection, go for it. This cut my Win7 boot time in half. Apps launch instantly. Win7 is smart enough to TRIM the drive and not page files that are on the drive, since it’s just as easy to read them directly.

    It’ll still be fast under XP, but not as fast, and performance will degrade due to lack of TRIM support. And you want 6Gb SATA support on your motherboard for best performance, but even with 3Gb it’ll be screaming. Normal drives waste almost all their time seeking around, this has zero seek time.

    Edit: I had a section here on how to use Easeus Todo Backup to do the migration here, but H. Heller pointed out that this utility doesn’t guarantee cluster alignment, which means you will have reduced performance. I got lucky since my desktop SSD ended up aligned, but that may not happen for you.

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  3. Miguel Vargas // September 27th, 2011 at 5:11 pm
    5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
    1.0 out of 5 stars
    Do not buy!, July 8, 2011
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    After seeing the great reviews I went ahead and bought this and installed it as my Windows 7 boot disk on a Sandy Bridge Z68 desktop. Ever since it’s been constant random BSODs, system stutters, the disk not being recognized and other nightmares.

    The OCZ forums are filled with other such stories from users. There are complicated instructions for updating the firmware that require blowing away Windows and that don’t seem to fix the problems for users.

    The speed of these drives is achieved by using complicated technologies that are not well understood yet and do not seem to be ready for prime time. Me, I am RMA’ing this thing and buying an Intel drive, I’ve wasted way too much time banging my head on my desk and won’t be coming back to OCZ for a long time.

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