OCZ Vertex 4 VTX4-25SAT3-128G 2.5" 128GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) OCZ Vertex 4 VTX4-25SAT3-128G 2.5" 128GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

Pros: This does what I bought it for. Put it right into one of my HDD bays in my Level 10 GT Thermaltake case. No noise (no moving parts <3 SSD's), and no heat. I have a Phenom II quad core CPU and 8 gigs of ram. Having this SSD lets my hardware do what it's supposed to. It makes sure there isn't any bottlenecking when trying to access my programs or my OS. Everything is reliable and quick. I have Windows 8 Pro because unlike the nay sayers it's more reliable, and much faster. This is great with this SSD. I open something and its there. I installed my OS and literally a few minutes later I was configuring other programs and preferences on my desktop. Also my boot time for my OS is seconds.

Cons: For those of you who are new to building your own systems. SSD's have a predetermined life span. Make sure to check yours before you buy. It is averaged out so think about how much you will actually be uninstalling and reinstalling. The predetermined life span is because of the type of technology used to provide better speeds, feel free to look it up if you want.

Other Thoughts: <3 My SSD.

Pros: Boot up literally takes 5 seconds.

Transferring files, installing software, etc are so fast.

No failures, problems, etc after about 4 months of using it.

Cons: Maybe too small in capacity
. If you install the OS (which you probably should), it already takes away about 15-20% of the storage.

Other Thoughts: Just make sure you store all the music, movies, data, etc on another Hard drive.

Maybe you could install a couple of games that are very demanding on the SSD.

Pros: What a fast, yet little drive.. I was very skeptical about buying any SSDs because of all the problems with the SandForce controllers and firmwares, But after months of reading reviews and since this one uses a Indilinx controller, I figured I had to finally give it a shot.. And I absolutely do NOT regret the decision, Even on SATA II I'm still getting about 250Mb/s read & write speeds. Can't wait to slap it into a SATA III next month when I finish my new build.

Cons: None so far, And I'm doubting there will be any..

Other Thoughts: Had a few problems fitting it into my Ultra E-Torque tool-less case, But that's absolutely not the drive's problem. It was my case's fault.

Pros: Very fast. Very easy to install. Technical support is excellent

Cons: None so far

Other Thoughts: Solid State drives are still a bit more costly than Mechanical drives but I thank it is worth it. I installed a 650 GB HHD to store my pictures and other large files. I would buy from OCZ again and if prices come down might buy a larger one.

Pros: -Amazing price
-Big bang for your buck makes a WORLD of difference whilst gaming or video editing.
-Stays cool and works every time.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: BUY IT

Pros: -Speed
-Lower power consumption
-Durable

Just read the packaging its pretty redundant for SSDs

Cons: -Small size. After installing Win7 with updates and necessary programs (antivirus and other things you want to run faster), this thing is already through about 40 gig. I mostly use mine as a boot drive so no big deal, but it would be awesome to have a 1tb and load all of my games/programs on it
-With constant use they do wither (99% life already and its been about 1 year) - I use as a boot drive with the occasional downloading. If I used it for gaming it would probably be 90%, but we knew this about the read-write cycles of SSDs so not big shocker.

Other Thoughts: To have this for a year already and only lose 1% of drive life (monitored with HD Tune and HD Sentinel), that is a pretty long lasting piece of equipment.

Pros: Amazing speed increase over the 120GB mechanical drive it replaced. And this is on an older system with just a 3Gb/s SATA controller.

Cons: None right now, but only time will tell......

Other Thoughts: ANY SSD is such an improvement over mechanical drives. No contest. If you're installing it in an older system with SATA 3Gb/s like mine, don't worry about getting the fastest SSD out there. Your controller won't be able to keep up with even the first-gen drives! They're that fast. Consider extra RAM, setting up a RAM Disk, and putting Windows swap file on it for the best performance and longevity of your new SSD.

Pros: - Fast
- No Problems
- Power Friendly
- Heat Friendly

Cons: - Could use more storage for the price

Other Thoughts: I don't currently have a way to benchmark these, so I'm not sure how they compare to other SSD's. I can, however, say that these SSD's are much faster than hard drives. I'm currently running two of these in RAID 0 as my primary disk, and have had no problems with them. Transfer and install rates are nice and fast. They stay cool and draw very little power compared to a hard drive. I just wish they had more space and/or cost less.

Overall, I feel that these are solid drives, and I would recommend them.

Pros: Works great, I boot my pc up in 3 seconds literally, everything changed, runs faster and quicker tyou notice all the differences in wait times go down ALOT.(when the fire nation attacked) Highly recommended!

Cons: nothing so far i've had this for about 1month

Other Thoughts: Love it but more than 128gb is unnecessary you only wanna save your games and windows on it to boot whats necessary up. You don't want to save music, pics, etc. That's just a waste for the ssd; so I suggest buying a cheap HD for storing that kind of stuff.

Pros: Price- 109$
Performance- As advertised
Zero problems
5 Yr warranty
Newegg's fast shipping as always :)

Cons: I did plan on buying another for Raid 0 but it seems they are out of stock or even possibly discontinued :(

Other Thoughts: After reading MANY reviews i decided to take a chance on this SSD. My main concern was drive failure so i waited over 2 months to write this review. I have had no problems since i installed this drive.