by Ilya Gavrichenkov, XBit Labs
About a month ago OCZ launched a completely new family of high-performance SSDs based around the proprietary Indilinx Everest 2 controller, and very recently they released new firmware version 1.4 for it, which was supposed to increase its speed even more. Will this make Vertex 4 the fastest consumer grade SSD with SATA 6 Gbps interface? Let’s find out!

OCZ Technology is a highly ambitious player on the market of solid state drives. They really seem to be willing to become the No.1 provider of consumer-class SSDs and put a lot of effort into this. The effort has been largely of the marketing nature. OCZ followed an aggressive advertisement strategy, waged price wars and deployed a wide-reaching dealer network. While fruitful, such activities couldn’t be fully efficient without some killer product that would be technically better than anything offered by the competitors. OCZ used to install third-party SandForce controllers in its desktop SSDs and the same controllers were also used by other manufacturers that produced similar products.

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