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2008-05-16

Leading technology review site Anandtech recently put several storage drives on their test bench, to rate the performance of the latest solid state drives compared to hard disc drives. Edging out the competition for overall performance in access time, transfer speeds, efficiency, and durability, Anandtech found the OCZ SATA II SSD worthy of it's Silver Editor's Choice award, and an extra look from enthusiasts looking for the next hardware upgrade.

"We are seeing the SSD market mature quickly from the performance, pricing, and capacity viewpoints. Now, with the latest controller technology we are seeing the new mainstream drives offering performance equal to the best mechanical desktop drives in most cases."

"By way of its greatly reduced power dissipation, the OCZ 64GB SSD leads our test group in both idle and load thermals thanks to the lack of mechanical parts. OCZ drives have write speeds that are now comparable with the majority of the latest 7200RPM mechanical drives. The OCZ drive performs exceptionally well in the 64/128 range and like most SSD drives, we see a significant decrease in write throughput."

"The biggest advantages of the OCZ SSD drives is not just class leading performance, but also reliability due to the lack of moving parts, small form factor, excellent thermals/acoustics, and low power use. The target market is obviously the power notebook user, but considering the 64GB of storage, this drive would make any desktop enthusiast with deep pockets valuing top-flight performance happy. We must consider this particular SSD technology represents a true shift in this market by offering excellent performance, greatly improved capacities, and class leading thermals/acoustics/power at a price per-GB unimaginable just a few months ago.""