OCZ Vertex 450 256GB SSD Review

Anvil’s Storage Utilities is a new benchmarking utility that we have started using here at eTeknix, it’s completely free to download and has the ability to test mainly hard drives and solid state drives, but also any other form of storage medium that you can throw at it. As well as testing the drive in a variety of benchmarking tests, it also has a drive endurance test that consistently reads and writes data to the selected medium to give days, months and potentially even years of use in a shorter period of time to see how the drive copes in the longer term.

Unlike a SandForce controller, the M10 controller in the Vertex 450 is able to handle both compressible and incompressible data with virtually equal performance figures during the two tests.