WinBench 99 Version 2.0

Business Disk WinBench 99

The 256 GB OCZ Vector SSD didn't do well in this test, delivering a score of just 62.1 MB/s. This is actually poorer than what the older 120 GB OCZ Vertex 2 (E) was able to deliver - 74.4 MB/s.

High-End Disk WinBench 99

The 256 GB OCZ Vector joined the Intel 520 Series SSD and the OCZ RevoDrive as solid state drives that failed to deliver a result in the High-End Disk WinMark 99 test. It was not that it failed the test. Disk WinBench 99 just didn't deliver any result because the score was just too high! Based on our other test results, the most we can say is that the OCZ Vector delivered a score in excess of 250 MB/s.

Transfer Rate Range

This chart shows you the range of platter-to-buffer transfer rates from the innermost track to the outermost track for hard disk drives, and the range of memory cell-to-controller transfer rates for solid state drives. In other words, it shows you the range of transfer rates of hard disk drives and solid state drives (from minimum and maximum).

Unlike hard disk drives which deliver a wide range of transfer rates, solid state drives have an almost uniform transfer rate across the entire device. With a virtually flat transfer rate of 415-442 MB/s, the 256 GB OCZ Vector SSD was 23% faster than the Intel 520 Series SSD. It was only slower than the OCZ RevoDrive, which is actually a RAID array of two SSDs, and even then only by 21%.

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