Comments on: OCZ Core Series Affordable SSD Hands-On

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:39:17 +0000

Please refer to the following page for how POOR the OCZ CORE SSD’s performance on Intel Chipset is !

http://www.alternativerecursion.info/?p=106

Please note that even official guide use
Core2 Duo E6300, 2GB DDR on
“South Bridge: NVIDIA 680i” instead of Intel ICH7, ICH8, ICH9 where mainstream desktop use.
why? The reason is self-evident.

The real performance on Intel chipset is so poor. The frequent 2+second freeze makes this SSD simply not usable !

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:57:12 +0000

all the real-world performance is nice to ses…

but this:

http://www.alternativerecursion.info/?p=106

really explains what is going on in the drive.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:15:20 +0000

You didn’t consider – as someone put it – chipset flaw. I mean , there was test on one website that showed that Intel chipsets cant really support sustained transfers above 80-90MB/s when same SSD was tested on NVidia chipset with ST SATA 2 controler and … bang … tansfers reached 110 MB/s … the they installed PCIe card with proffessional controller and … another Bang … 120 MB/s from single drive up to … 564 MB/s for RAID of five such disks. But again .. they changed controler – to super expensive and …. 1,2 GB/s from 9 disks.
Conclusions … laptops (maybe except Centrino 2 – I don’t know) doesn’t have as fast controler in chipsets to use SSD…

By: Ken Hoang

Ken Hoang — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:19:28 +0000

Ok so I have the 128GB version of this drive and I’m going to have to get rid of it. Startup and boot is very fast but real world application use is painfully slow. Especially if you use Outlook. Not sure why by I’m going back to the 320GB WD Scorpio Black since it’s molasses with Outlook to the point that it slows down the whole computer. Sucks…

By: nev

nev — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:42:13 +0000

I gotta say… $169 (32GB) is a bargain since paying $400 for 16GB.

But about performance…

I have a Mtron 16GB on desktop with Vista and there’s a significant boost in speed when compared while there is anti-virus installed. (or any HD resource hogging background jobs)

XP on Dell Insp. 6000 (1.6Ghz/2GB ram/250GB WD) was faster then EEE (4GB SSD)… BUT when anti virus installed… the Dell went into a crawl while the EEE was just slightly slower booting and opening programs.

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:31:00 +0000

Interesting review, quite frankly the test system is very fast… I’ve never seen word 2007 open in less than 7/9 second on a system with a 7200 HD and a decent dual core. Btw you did erase vistas super prefetch cache so you’re sure no part of the program was already in RAM when you run the test?

By: Solinx

Solinx — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:35:59 +0000

Like KJ, I’m interested in getting a MSI Wind equipped with a OCZ Core SSD.

If the Wind is no longer available to you, continued use of the WD Scorpio Blue as reference drive would be great.

Also, if possible, could you test the power usage of the OCZ compared to the WD Scorpio?

Many thanks in advance
Solinx

By: Rick Huizinga

Rick Huizinga — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:40:25 +0000

My Super Talent MX 120GB SSD died on me after 5 weeks of use. I RMA’d the drive, and today got a note that they can no longer get more of the drives and have issued me a full refund.

By: KJ

KJ — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:34:23 +0000

Nice preliminary review. I am very interested in SSD with my netbook. Please have a look at techreport.com because it seems that SSD’s with slow write speeds (i.e. less than 40MB/s) have a dramatic impact on overall performance at least in typical benchmarks. So, in what applications do SSD’s benefit? I am hoping a netbook (MSI WIND) with a OCZ Core Series SSD will be very fast. Yeah, so do SSD’s realy help in day to day usage: web browsing, email, office, multimedia playback.

By: Dave Farquhar

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:40:49 +0000

It’s good to see this. I’ve been really looking forward to the OCZ Core, since it promises better performance than the inexpensive Super Talent MLC-based SSDs, and also in light of the number of people having issues with the Super Talents dying after about a month. It’s good to see how it performs in real-world tasks.