![]() ![]() So why would I buy an OCZ product? Well, normally, I wouldn't for those exact reasons, however, in the case of the Vertex 4, a few things are different. On top of that, their reputation for using early adopters as beta testers is widely publicized. I've been fairly critical of the Sandforce drives in the past, and, of course, OCZ has been one of the major vendors for Sandforce drives. The rest all came together on Black Friday when the the 256GB Vertex 4 was available from Newegg for $175 CAD (it was $159 on Amazon at that time for US customers) and the 2720SGL was also on sale (and still is). ![]() It was trivial to connect it to the Apricorn Solo x2 and drop it in the top slot. I had purchased the Crucial M4 some time ago when the prices came down to around $1/GB and was running it as my boot drive off the SATA2 backplane. And, as you can imagine, that spare port on the 2720 is crying out for a fourth drive. While I could have just purchased a pair of 256GB SSDs for the Aperture Library, I opted for a trio of drives to have more capacity and to really try to push performance. And, of course, the Aperture library (storing photos of 25-100MB in size) would benefit most from sequential read/write performance where RAID0 arrays excel. My thinking was that my OS and Apps would benefit most from top notch small random read/write performance, which the M4 excels at.
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