Marvell’s controller and OCZ’s talented SSD team still have more to offer their customers

Jul 5, 2012 10:41 GMT  ·  By

Just two months ago, SSD leading company OCZ was releasing the famous 1.4RC firmware update – that you can still find here – bringing impressive performance results. Now, OCZ is working hard at the 1.5 firmware version and the preliminary tests still show there is more performance coming.

Initial testing showed that the 128 GB, 256 GB and 512 GB SSD models belonging to OCZ’s Vertex 4 product line achieved a very high 560 MB/s sequential read speed using the new beta firmware.

The write performance is also increased by about 6 to 10 percent, depending on the model and the storage capacity.

OCZ’s Vertex 4 256 GB model reportedly is the one that gets the greatest write performance improvement using the new beta firmware.

The new firmware is installed using OCZ’s Toolbox.

OCZ Vertex 4 (2 Images)

OCZ's Vertez 4 on the Inside
Initial performance results of the vertex 4 SSDs with 1.5beta firmware
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