I'm Excited-SSD

Good, solid SSD man. Lots of space for cheap.

You're gonna love it!
 
On good Samsung controllers IIRC, but from what I hear there's not much difference between these and the Vertex drives.
 
There are 4 Agility NAND suppliers, all non-Samsung, which is the real reason why the Agility is cheaper, because the average price of Samsung NAND is somewhere in the Vicinity of $4.1/GB at this point. As far as performance, it will vary based on the available NAND. Intel is one of the NAND suppliers and if their contract price goes down the Agility may in fact end up being the faster drive while being cheaper than the Vertex.

I have a feeling OCZ really wishes the Vertex did not exist at this point.
 
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On good Samsung controllers IIRC, but from what I hear there's not much difference between these and the Vertex drives.
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yep you're right. The only difference is the type of NAND flash . The vertex and agility share the same controller and DRAM buffer.

T minus 4 hours :D
 
Waiting for a good Vertex/Agility or any other SSD with Indilinx or Samsung controllers, 120GB for sub-$175 and I would probably finally make the leap into SSD land. :)
 
The vertex are probably the hottest ssd out there right now. Price v performance they cant be beat. AND the greatest thing about them is their constantly evolving firmware and the support for these drives is above and beyond anyone, intell included! They started out as awesome drives, but with the more and more improved firmwares they are simply fantastic, and with the new 'garbage collection' features these drives firmware is probably going to single handedly kill the TRIM function that is being written into win7....the guys over at OCZ are ahead of the curve and definitely on the bleeding edge of technology.
 
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The vertex are probably the hottest ssd out there right now. Price v performance they cant be beat. AND the greatest thing about them is their constantly evolving firmware and the support for these drives is above and beyond anyone, intell included! They started out as awesome drives, but with the more and more improved firmwares they are simply fantastic, and with the new 'garbage collection' features these drives firmware is probably going to single handedly kill the TRIM function that is being written into win7....the guys over at OCZ are ahead of the curve and definitely on the bleeding edge of technology.
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Well said. I agree completely.
 
yes, robstar that is correct. However, TRIM is a system by which the operating system is constantly maintaining your drive. However, now the vertex drives have os independent garbage collection. There is an arm processor as part of the idillinx controller on the vertex, and now they do it themselves, regardless of what operating system you are running. This new firmware keeps your drive fresh constantly. Also they are releasing an even BETTER version of this new firmware this week. If you have vertex, go cruise their forums....like i said, bleeding edge stuff!!
 
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