Three months ago we previewed the first client focused SF-2200 SSD: OCZ's Vertex 3. The 240GB sample OCZ sent for the preview was four firmware revisions older than what ended up shipping to retail last month, but we hoped that the preview numbers were indicative of final performance.
The first drives off the line when OCZ went to production were 120GB capacity models. These drives have 128GiB of NAND on board and 111GiB of user accessible space, the remaining 12.7% is used for redundancy in the event of NAND failure and spare area for bad block allocation and block recycling.
Unfortunately the 120GB models didn't perform as well as the 240GB sample we previewed. Was it the newer firmware or the simple fact that the 120GB had fewer NAND die under the hood. With 16 NAND devices on the 120GB model and only 8 channels branching off the SF-2200 controller, why would the 240GB drive be faster? Read on to find out.
Source: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4316/ocz-vertex-3-240gb-review
Karen Carreno Bijou Phillips Marika Dominczyk Dita Von Teese Rachel Nichols
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