OCZ Vector 180 SSD Review (240GB/480GB/960GB)

AS SSD BENCHMARK VER 1.7

The toughest benchmark available for solid state drives is AS SSD as it relies solely on incompressible data samples when testing performance.  For the most part, AS SSD tests can be considered the ‘worst case scenario’ in obtaining data transfer speeds and many enthusiasts like AS SSD for their needs. Transfer speeds are displayed on the left with IOPS results on the right.

240GB

Initial results with the 240GB model prove promising. During AS SSD it reached a score of 1150. Sequential speeds hit 514MB/s for reads and 500MB/s write while 4K speeds reach 27MB/s for read and 116MB/s for write. Furthermore, the drive reached 89,541 IOPS read and 84,333 IOPS write. Access times are for read and write are both 0.037ms.

To complement this, the AS SSD Copy Bench presents us with transfer speeds for different file types. It reached a high of 433MB/s for the ISO test. For its lowest value, it reached 234MB/s on the game test.

480GB

 

Next up, the 480GB model reached a score of 1185. Sequential speeds hit 518MB/s for reads and 497MB/s write while 4K speeds reach 30MB/s for read and 134MB/s for write. Furthermore, the drive reached 91,961 IOPS read and 83,148 IOPS write. Access times are for read and write are 0.030ms and 0.035ms respectively.

During the AS SSD Copy Bench we see a slight improvement all around, but most noticeably in the Game test, increasing from 234MB/s to 330MB/s. It also reached a high in the ISO test again hitting 477MB/s.

960GB

 

Finally, it is the 960GB models turn. The 960GB OCZ Vector 180 achieved an overall score of 1,204! Very impressive, not many SSDs break 1,200 points! Sequential speeds pretty much match the others while 4K speeds match the 480GB model. We can also see there is a slight improvement on random IOPS with this SSD reaching 94,868 IOPS read and 83,658 IOPS write. Access times as well as its performance during the Copy benchmark are also similar to the previous.

ANVIL STORAGE UTILITIES PROFESSIONAL

Anvil’s Storage Utilities (ASU) are the most complete test bed available for the solid state drive today.  The benchmark displays test results for, not only throughput but also, IOPS and Disk Access Times.  Not only does it have a preset SSD benchmark, but also, it has included such things as endurance testing and threaded I/O read, write and mixed tests, all of which are very simple to understand and use in our benchmark testing.

240GB

480GB

960GB

Anvil Storage Utilities also shows us similar results between the capacities with results giving a slight edge to the larger capacity models.  Overall, the 240GB model achieved a total score of 4460. The max sequential read reaches 504MB/s and sequential write comes in at 493MB/s. 4K speeds prove similar to the other benchmarks, 28MB/s for read and 122MB/s for write. The 480GB and 960GB models achieved total scores at about 4800 points. Both had reached read speeds of around 512MB/s and write speeds of about 490MB/s. 4K read and write proved similar reaching 31MB/s for 4K read and 147MB/s for 4K write.