![]() The OCZ Vector came with a 3.5-inch adapter with the necessary screws, a small information booklet and a sticker. The Samsung SSD is definitely the better looking and the much lighter device. 1.9 oz), which is important above all for possible use in lightweight notebooks. On the scales, there is a pretty big weight disparity (116 g vs. It comes in a heavy but stable metal case, with a label that has been well designed but haphazardly stuck on. OCZ tries to follow suit by including similar innards but with its own controller, the ‘Barefoot 3’. The Samsung SSD 840 Pro is currently one of the best performing SSDs and contains the tried and tested 25 nm MLC NAND flash chips. Now, they aim at the premium SSD market which requires the SSDs to offer excellent performance, quality and reliability. Historically, OCZ has been selling a large number of SSDs by undercutting the prices of the competition. ‘Barefoot 3’ has a lot of improvements that were needed to make the OCZ SSDs competitive. But the firmware was used on a Marvell chip and the SSDs did not find much traction with the consumer. Barefoot 2 was the first controller iteration that was introduced in the Vertex 4s. ![]() ![]() ![]() OCZ had very limited control over the quality of the firmware. OCZ used to source the controller of its older Vertex SSDs (excluding the Vertex 4) from Sandforce. Indilinx was bought by OCZ in March 2011 to better control the quality of the SSDs that it was manufacturing. For the original German review, see here. ![]()
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