OCZ AGILITY II 60GB SSD
Recommended Award
RRP: $148 | Website: http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/solid-state-drives/sata-ii/25--sata-ii/performance-enterprise-solid-state-drives/ocz-agility-2-sata-ii-2-5--ssd.html
Test Machine
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Intel Core i7 980X
Gigabyte X58-UD7 (rev1.0)
NVIDIA Geforce GTX460
OCZ Agility II 60GB SSD
Thermaltake Toughpower
1.5KW
• Windows 7 64-Bit
H
ere is another relatively new
drive in the SSD market. It is
true that the Agility series was one
of the earlier mass market SSD
drives, the Agility II is the latest
iteration from OCZ that features
the fantastic Indilix Barefoot
controller (SF1200) just like many
of the newer high performance
drives. With Read and claims
of 285MB/sec and 275MB/sec
respectively there’s little doubt as
to which is the controller to beat
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and this can only mean good things
for the OCZ Agility II Drive.
Analysis
The results of the Agility II unit
speak for themselves. The drive
was faster than our reference unit
in every single test save for the
higher Maximum IO response time
and Total MB/sec in IOMETER. This
was nothing short incredible and a
true testament to the great effects
of the Sand Force controller.
In PCMark Vantage the drive
remained faster than the reference
drive delivering over 200 points
higher in the total score. Given the
results we gathered it was hard for
us to justify why one would want to
spend a little more on the Vertex
2 drive, because performance
was virtually identical. This is truly
great performance for a sub $150
SSD and without question the
Agility II is amongst the fastest
SSD’s we’ve tested to date.
Of particular interest was the 4K
writes result. In OCZ’s literature
they claimed that the drive was
capable of 10,000 IOPS which was
not only a bold claim but one we
were not expecting the drive to
live up to. Surprisingly enough the
drive met this claim and actually
exceeded it with just over 10,600
IOPS, beating out the Super Talent
RAID DRIVE that we have reviewed
in this issue as well. To put that
in context, it delivered more than
twice the performance of the
comparison drive which isn’t bad
performer at all.
For interest’s sake we plugged
the drive into a SATA 3Gbps
port and noticed a slightly lower
IOPS recording but not enough