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OC3D Review: OCZ Vertex TURBO 120GB SSD
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Rastalovich
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It's fast. It's also a little over £2.50 a gig, a little under when the online stores massage it a bit.
I'm interested in this optimizer, in terms of how prone it could be to screw up the disk.
1. Does the OS recognize it as being in-use. Especially in regards to closing down.
2. If there's a power-off, or maybe a power failure, would it condemn the drive.
I'm guessing it judges itself when "idle" actually is. If u happen to want to do something whilst it's in the middle of "optimizing", do u have to w8 for it to finish, or does it just break off what it's doing - indeed, is it like a sleeping drive waking up.
I'm interested in this optimizer, in terms of how prone it could be to screw up the disk.
1. Does the OS recognize it as being in-use. Especially in regards to closing down.
2. If there's a power-off, or maybe a power failure, would it condemn the drive.
I'm guessing it judges itself when "idle" actually is. If u happen to want to do something whilst it's in the middle of "optimizing", do u have to w8 for it to finish, or does it just break off what it's doing - indeed, is it like a sleeping drive waking up.
It works just like a defrag tool m8 in that respect. It will only optimise the drive when idle. Closing the PC down will obviously read/write files to/from the drive so it will no longer be idle. Dunno what would happen if the pc shut down 'unexpectedly' while the drive was being optimised.
Rastalovich
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U reckon it'd be like closing down a pc that's in the middle of a defrag.
More importantly to that maybe, would a chkdsk have a chance to solve the issue afterwards.
More importantly to that maybe, would a chkdsk have a chance to solve the issue afterwards.
turbos are a limited edition (they're only oc'd by 14MHz) and prolly won't be sold for much longer; although support will still continue.
OCZ are hoping to eventually bring all standard Vertex drives up to the same speed
the built in "optimizer" is called garbage collection or GC for short. this does rearrange some of the data while idle (best way is to log off and let the PC sit for a while) to fill contiguous blocks and reduce write amplification
once the next firmware is finalised for the std. vertex drives, it will also be released for turbos
OCZ are hoping to eventually bring all standard Vertex drives up to the same speed
the built in "optimizer" is called garbage collection or GC for short. this does rearrange some of the data while idle (best way is to log off and let the PC sit for a while) to fill contiguous blocks and reduce write amplification
once the next firmware is finalised for the std. vertex drives, it will also be released for turbos
