Thread: OCZ Agility-EX SLC solid-state drive OCZSSDii-1AGTEX60G

OCZ has earned the pole place in the race for Solid State Drive client supremacy. Most of the OCZ solid-state drive product line is sold at retail to enthusiast end-users, but the EX-serial offers SLC building and delivers premier function to the Enterprise part and an cheap cost. Corporate environments offer vast potential for solid-state drive technology through offering drive function quicker than SAS-based memory, and dramatically diluting heat output. In this article, tests the 60GB OCZ Agility EX SSD OCZSSDii-OneAGTEX60G, and Indilinx-founded SLC Solid State Drive.


The Indilinx Barefoot controller has turn the backbone chip for above a couple of dissimilar solid-state drive examples, first brought in in the OCZ Vertex solid-state drive and after in the Vertex-EX SLC solid-state drive, the IDX110M00-FC reinvents itself as the OCZ Agility-EX SLC solid-state drive serial. Identical to the famous OCZ Vertex serial in each aspect exclude NAND selection, the Agility EX serial offers the similar Indilinx 'Barefoot' controller and 64MB of DRAM buffer, but just boasts ultra-quick 270/200 MBps read and write velocities. Tests the reaction time and bandwidth function for the 120 Gigabyte OCZ Vertex Turbo solid-state drive OCZSSD2-1VTXT120G example against over 2 dozen other memory products in this article.




Very currently Seagate brought in the Barracuda XT hard drive, and while you may be wondering what that has to do with an solid-state drive article I have a point: Seagate is the first to extends a product for the SATA 6Gb/s (SATA-III) interface. This is excellent news for hard drives, but it is still better news for SSDs, which have encroached upon the 300 MBps SATA-II throughput barrier for rather few time now. The first 2 SATA-6G CPU boards have already been declared: the ASUS P7P55D Premium and GIGABYTE GA-P55-EXTREME, which will open-up desktop function and eventually lead to developed SOHO server architecture.


The competition between Solid State Drive producers is reminiscent of the video card wars among AMD and NVIDIA a some years before. The invention of latest controller technology has slowed slightly, while every company races to mix high-speed NAND with custom firmware tweaks to make the quicker solid-state drive velocities possible. The Indilinx Barefoot controller has exploited a dominant hold above the client solid-state drive market throughout the past various months, and 'overclocked' Solid State Drive products are starting to substitute 'new' product designs. In this article, Benchmark Reviews equates the quickest SLC SSD we have discovered to-date: the 60 Gigabyte OCZ Agility-EX OCZSSDii-OneAGTEX60G.