OCZ Vector 150 SSD

The fruits of Toshiba MLC NAND flash and the union of OCZ and Indilinx's controller designers have created a solid-feeling and performing performance SSD. It compares well with Intel's latest performance drive, yet is closer to 50p per gigabyte rather...

The SSD world is a bit stale these days, as we all wait for the industry to move beyond the SATA 6Gb/s interface. Most high-end drives have been able to saturate the bus for a while now, so manufacturers have been looking for ways other than performance...

In conclusion, I felt the OCZ Vector 150 performed quite well. It was very easy to setup and get going. Everything you needed to get going was provided. They even threw in a copy of Acronis True Image to make cloning your new drive that much easier. This...

The Vector 150 is priced more keenly than the Vector was when we looked at it, in that it has essentially the same cost per formatted gigabyte as its primary competition from Samsung, the SSD 840 PRO 256GB. That said, we still would have preferred...

The Vector 150 features updated flash memory and promises improved longevity, but its performance isn’t markedly better than OCZ's previous-generation drive, and it costs more than competing alternatives....

In terms of the general synthetic performance on my Haswell-based test rig there's really not a lot of difference between the Vector 150 and the competing 840 EVO drive. But it's when you start throwing around a lot of data that things start to look good for OCZ.

A particularly impressive new OCZ drive, especially when you dive into the real-world...

With fast performance and a good warranty, the OCZ Vector 150 is a great SSD for first-time adopters. It's not a worthwhile upgrade for the original Vector drive,...