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The OCZ Vertex Series of Solid-State Drives (SSDs) has been without a doubt one of the most successful SSDs released by any manufacturer. When we reviewed the original Vertex 120GB drive in April 2009 we found it to be an amazing SSD that was one of the first on the market that had the ability to do garbage collection and TRIM. It was truly a drive that was better than much of the competition and even today it is a solid performing drive thanks to the Indilinx Barefoot controller. OCZ has been busy working on their next generation SSD products, and rather than using last year's Indilinx Barefoot controller they found a new controller series that they liked from an upcoming SSD controller company called SandForce. OCZ has been testing the SandForce SF-1200 and SF-1500 controllers for months internally and last month during CES they made the formal announcement that OCZ would be bringing out the Vertex 2 series of SSDs using these two new controllers.

gwolfman wrote:Wow, $100 more just for the 1500 controller, that's crazy expensive. Granted I think it was designed for enterprise applications (w/ SLC) where price isn't so important, but still. Looks like I'll stick with Vertex 1's.

Btw, you should have included Vertex 1 comparisons as well as the Intel drive for comparison. We already know that OCZ's SSD work quite differently than Intel's.