OCZ VERTEX 460 240GB Review

👤by Richard Weatherstone Comments 📅12-04-14
Packaging & First Look

The exterior packaging is typical SSD size and while minimalist it is attractive to the eye.


The SSD arrives foam packed and also included are a 3.5" drive bay adaptor, product literature and a serial number for a downloadable copy of Acronis True Image disk cloning software, a very useful piece of software which is rare to see bundled with a drive at this price point.


The drive itself is similar in appearance to the out packaging design. You will find that this drive will fit most any notebooks and ultra books thanks to its 7mm height and while the casing is metal, it is not overly heavy like we saw with the Intel 730 SSD.


Nothing much to tell you about the rear of the drive except that should you wish to take a peek at the internals you will have to invalidate the 3 yr warranty by breaking an OCZ seal.


The guts of the drive feature an Indelinx Barefoot 3 M10 controller which runs ever so slightly slower (352MHz vs. 397MHz) than the M00 found in the Vector 150. Those astute among you will notice that both the Vector 150 and Vertex 460 share the same PCB layout.


The Vertex 460 makes use of twin 256GB DDR3-1333 Micron RAM modules for explosive DRAM cache performance and pairing this with Toshiba's own 19nm NAND chips, of which there are 8, should make this a very fast SSD.

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