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OCZ's Vertex 3 Pro: Second-Gen SandForce Perf Preview
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4. Test Setup
  1. Meet OCZ's Vertex 3 Pro
  2. More Specs And SandForce's Second-Gen Controller
  3. BCH ECC, Overprovisioning, And Moving To 6 Gb/s
  4. Test Setup
  5. Benchmark Results: I/O Performance
  6. Benchmark Results: Iometer Streaming
  7. Benchmark Results: CrystalDiskMark Streaming Performance
  8. Benchmark Results: 4 KB And 512 KB Random Reads
  9. Benchmark Results: 4 KB And 512 KB Random Writes
  10. Benchmark Results: PCMark Vantage Storage Test
  11. Benchmark Results: Power Consumption
  12. Final Words
Test Hardware
Processor
Intel Core i5-2500K (Sandy Bridge), 3.3 GHz, LGA 1155, 8 MB Shared L3, Power-savings enabled
Motherboard
Gigabyte GA-H67MA-UD2H
Memory
Kingston Hyper-X 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR3-1333 @ DDR3-1333/1066, 1.5 V
Hard Drive
Intel X25-M 160 GB SSDSA2M160G2GC, SATA 3Gb/s (System Drive)

Kingston SSDNow 100 V+ 120 GB SVP100S2/128G, SATA 3Gb/s

OCZ Agility 2 120 GB OCZSSD2-2AGTE120G, SATA 3Gb/s

Seagate Momentus 5400.6 500 GB ST9500325AS, SATA 3Gb/s

OCZ Vertex 2 120 GB OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G, SATA 3Gb/s

Western Digital VelociRaptor 300 GB WD3000HLFS, SATA 3Gb/s

G.Skill SATA II 64 GB FM-25S2S-64GB, SATA 3Gb/s

OCZ Vertex 3 Pro 200 GB Beta Sample, SATA 6Gb/s
Graphics
Intel HD Graphics 3000
Power Supply
Sparkle 1250 W, 80 PLUS
System Software And Drivers
Operating System
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
DirectX
DirectX 11
Graphics DriverIntel Display Driver 8.15.10.2266
Benchmarks
Performance MeasurementsCrystalDiskMark 3.0 x64, set to read and write random data to drive
PCMark Vantage 1.0.2.0
I/O PerformanceIOMeter 2008.08.18, default configuration, not reading/writing random data
File server Benchmark, Web server Benchmark, Database Benchmark, Workstation Benchmark
Streaming Reads, Streaming Writes
4 KB Random Reads, 4 KB Random Writes


If you have been paying attention to the news, you already know about the SATA degradation problem in the H67 and P67 chipsets. As you know, this only affects the 3 Gb/s ports. We're only testing on the 6 Gb/s ports here, so our results are unaffected.

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Summary
  1. Meet OCZ's Vertex 3 Pro
  2. More Specs And SandForce's Second-Gen Controller
  3. BCH ECC, Overprovisioning, And Moving To 6 Gb/s
  4. Test Setup
  5. Benchmark Results: I/O Performance
  6. Benchmark Results: Iometer Streaming
  7. Benchmark Results: CrystalDiskMark Streaming Performance
  8. Benchmark Results: 4 KB And 512 KB Random Reads
  9. Benchmark Results: 4 KB And 512 KB Random Writes
  10. Benchmark Results: PCMark Vantage Storage Test
  11. Benchmark Results: Power Consumption
  12. Final Words

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