OCZ Vertex 3 240GB Solid State Drive Review

A few months ago we were lucky enough to receive a preview version of OCZ's Vertex 3 SSD. The 240GB model we tested performed well, even at that pre-release stage, exceeding the performance of pretty much every other drive on the market at the time. Since then the final revision was released and it has been competing with Intel's new 510 series SSDs and the Crucial M4/C400, both of which are based on Marvell chipsets.

Despite having a super-fast SSD in their product catalogue in the form of the Vertex 3 OCZ were not content and true to form they have been working on additional models behind the scenes. Today's review product is one of those devices, the 240GB Max IOPS edition of the Vertex 3 and we will be putting it up against Intel's 510 series and Crucials M4/C400 series SSDs with a similar capacity in a selection of real world and synthetic tests.