Thread: Agility 2 100GB OCZ SSD

OCZ, one of the leading brands in the market for SSDs, send us a successful OCZ Agility 2. The unit comes with a driver SF-1200 SandForce company, and will be marketed in versions of 50GB, 100GB, 200GB and 400GB (100GB in this case). The new units maintain the format of 2.5 "SATA 3.0 Gbps interface, and its features include the MTBF of 1.5 million hours, TRIM support and maximum speeds of read / write 285 MB / s 275 MB / s respectively . Agility 2 comes with a performance 4K random write IOPS 10.000.



The unit Agility 2 100GB OCZ is set perfectly to the dimensions set in the form factor of 2.5. The front clearly identifies the unit to which we are, with some additional information in the back. SATA-II interface that can handle speeds up to 300 MB / s. The SSD Agility 2 also provide these read / write rates of 285 and 275 MB / s but unlike Vertex, have an average operating input / output in smaller writing, from 10,000 per second for 50,000 of the Vertex 2. Units Agility 2 OCZ have a 2.5 inch SATA2 interface and implemented TRIM technology. OCZ is using 16 flash chips and flash driver Sandforce SF-1200, located in the middle of the plate under the chassis.

The unit Agility 2 100GB OCZ is a great if we walk after an SSD with SandForce SF-1200 driver, especially considering the storage capacity. OCZ offers its unit sizes from 40 GB to 480 GB, so yes, the margins will more or less empty our portfolio. Agility 2 shows some surprising results in our synthetic tests, reaching above 230 MB / s reading and writing. The write speeds are particularly high when compared to other SSD. What if that seems little understood, is that it provides little improvement over the previous model, this being almost negligible.

OCZ Agility 2 TRIM has support, which ensures that the unit knows instantly when it must release the blocks after deleting a file, which in turn gives the possibility to clean all parts of the chips flash, so that clean areas are instantly ready to receive new data, faster. Without TRIM, the unit would have to lose these write cycles each time the operating system tries to write data, which is actually occupied by deleted data, and reduces the write performance.