CeBIT overnight testing - OCZ Vertex 2 Pro SSD
Author: Vedran Dakic
Date: 04 Mar 2010

CeBIT Overnight Testing (tm) thingy is up and running again with coffee and all of the necessary bits and pieces falling into their places. As always, first ones to get us something to push to its limits are good people from OCZ, with a Vertex 2 Pro sample. Even if this year hasn't really started with a lot of products being announced, we kind of had a feeling that we'll have at least something test-worthy at CeBIT. And boy, were we right...

Using a completely new controller (Sandforce) was a bit of a surprise for me when I first heard about it. OK, the Indillinx drives had their fair share of birth pains to come to terms with the performance we expected from them. JMicron drives had that, too. Intel's drives suffered for other reasons, namely broken firmware revisions. And overall, we were really interested to see how OCZ's lineup of SSD's grew in the past year. Almost ten basic models and then capacity to choose from. Pretty good. And from what we hear, there's more to come since they're investing a lot of money into SSD R&D. And we already tested quite a few of them. Just check out this, this, this, and this, sorted chronologically. Is investing a lot of money on SSD's a sign of good things to come? Let's start with the new Vertex 2 Pro and take it from there.

Here's a picture of the SSD we're testing today, Vertex 2 Pro: