Thread: OCZ Agility EX SSD analyze

We have expected at many SSDs and when some were simply OK, others actually stood head and shoulders above the challenger. Conceive it or not, lots of the first SSDs published onto the market yet appear quite good because their utilize of high performance Single Layer Cells but were hobbled by their use of less than optimal controllers.

Unluckily, price and an unsuitable appetite for more capability is what keeps less effective Multi Layer Cell units becoming strong. As such, SLC-based SSDs have traditionally been much more valuable than their lower-performing brethren. Today.

We are attending appear at one of OCZ’s latest messages: the Agility EX 60GB SSD. This small drive looks to have all we would need in an SSD a high-end Indulging controller and SLC NAND. When it is new, getting it at distributors and e-tailers is a bit hard but as we have said in the past

Later it is an OCZ drive; we expect accessibility to be widespread presently. If you can get it, it goes for about $400 which is about what you can get the MLC-based 120GB Vertex for. This may not sound like such a hot conduct believing the $199 the common Agility goes for but earlier doing any possibilities, we propose reading by the rest of this review.

We actually can’t wait to assure what this drive can do and we are very peculiar about how it is attending perform. The Agility line contains OCZ’s traditionally mid-tier products and is guessed to adjust on bang for buck performance. This to us poses the question: is the so called reduced power edition of SLC NAND going to kick some major butt when compared the top of the line MLC based SSDs? If so, is the increase cost per GB going to be worth it? To put it bluntly we can see ourselves giving up half the size of a drive only if it blows the doors off its MLC brethren.