OCZ Vector 150 (120GB & 240GB) Review
by Kristian Vättö on November 7, 2013 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Storage
- SSDs
- OCZ
- Indilinx
- Vector 150
Power Consumption
Like I mentioned on the introduction page, the Vector 150 doesn't support any form of ACHI Link Power Management (also known as HIPM and DIPM) nor does it support Windows 8's DevSleep. Even with those disabled, the idle power consumption ends up being higher than Samsung's although it's good to see that OCZ has done some improvements compared to the original Vector. Power consumption under load, on the other hand, is very good as OCZ is able to stay within their 2.5W spec.
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ssdpro - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
Looks pretty good. I like that it is certified for 50GB/day - much higher than the original which makes me think the nand is better. Price will need to get down to 120 or so though, that 1GB/$1 is critical.Solid State Brain - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
OCZ indeed have managed fooling people that these drives are much better than the old ones.Any drive with 3k P/E writes MLC NAND from 128 GB and up, write endurance wise should be able to support at the very least 50 GB of writes per day for 5 years, even taking into account a rather high write amplification of 4.5-5.
It's all mostly about how much manufacturers are willing to risk cannibalizing their enterprise lineup. I don't think OCZ has much left to lose at this point.
Guspaz - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
When a company with a reputation for terrible reliability has their review sample fail, that's a pretty good sign that their reliability is still terrible.romrunning - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice... or 3 times... or 4 times...geniekid - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
Fool me once, strike one. Fool me twice, strike...three.Guspaz - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
Sadly, this was the experience of a friend who made the mistake of buying an OCZ drive. It failed, so he RMA'd it. The replacement failed. So he RMA'd that. THAT replacement failed... Eventually he gave up and bought an Intel drive, which... didn't fail.Samus - Friday, November 8, 2013 - link
My last OCZ drive that failed was RMA'ed and the replacement eBayed. Learned my lesson. That was a few years ago, but at the time, NO other drives were failing in OCZ fashion.Kingston SSDNOW, Crucial C300, Intel X25-M/320, Samsung 700-series...they weren't as fast, but they also rarely failed.
deeps6x - Friday, November 8, 2013 - link
Yep, NEVER AGAIN for me.Much cheaper EVO looks like the bang for the buck winner still. Every six months there is something significantly better for less cost anyway. Why pay premium prices for such a short amount of time at the 'top'? Buy the best 'bang for the buck' products as much as possible.
djscrew - Saturday, November 9, 2013 - link
my 2nd gen OCZ Revodrive 128 gb has been going strong for 3 yrsSenti - Thursday, November 7, 2013 - link
Buying OCZ SSD is suicide. Even with impressive hardware it's just not worth the problems. I can tell as the user of quite a premium drive from them: Revodrive 3. No TRIM support, drivers only for Win7 (and not even planned for anything else), horrible boot times (due to its bios insisting on showing some useless information, you can even press Space to reduce this time that proves that it would be easy to improve the situation if the company was willing to improve things as users asked).