WinBench 99 Version 2.0

Business Disk WinBench 99

The OCZ Vertex 2 was the fastest solid state drive in this comparison. Its score of 74.4 MB/s meant it was 5% faster than the 90 GB Corsair F90 solid state drive, and 45% faster than the industry-favourite 160 GB Intel X25-M G2 (34 nm). When compared to the fastest desktop hard disk drive in the market, the 600 GB Western Digital VelociRaptor, the OCZ Vertex 2 was almost 3.4x faster!

High-End Disk WinBench 99

The OCZ Vertex 2 SSD maintained its top position in the High-End test and opened up its lead over its nearest competitor, the 60 GB OCZ Agility 2 (E) solid state drive, to 8%. That made it about 16% faster than the 160 GB Intel X25-M G2 and 2x faster than the 600 GB Western Digital VelociRaptor.

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 281-282 MB/s, the OCZ Vertex 2 SSD virtually tied with the 60 GB OCZ Agility 2 for the top spot.

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