- 2.5"
- 480GB
- SATA III
So far so good!
04/14/2015
This review is from: OCZ ARC 100 2.5" 480GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) ARC100-25SAT3-480G
Pros:
+Scores extremely fast on Intel Z97 SATA3 interface (check numbers in OTHER section)
+Locking SATA cables lock properly
+US based Customer Service (SSD comes with 3 year Advance Replacement warranty and free shipping)
+SSD Guru – a software management tool for Windows and Linux!
+New OCZ Barefoot 3 M10 Controller
+Awesome Toshiba MLC NAND chips
+Firmware updates made easy via SSD Guru (tested in AHCI mode on Win7 laptop)
Cons:
-could be cheaper
Next one is not really a con, but I thought I’d mention it here. Upon first attempt to connect this SSD to my Intel Z97 sata3 controller where I also have 2 other SSD drives (Mushkin Chronos Deluxe running RAID0) my Gigabyte Z97-UD5H board lost connection to all drives upon cold boot, not sure why, but it went away after I reseated power and sata cables to OCZ ARC. Didn’t do anything different the second time and yet it worked fine.
Based on other reviews the lifespan of these drives might be short, will see about it personally as I installed this drive in my laptop for daily use mostly for entertainment. I will post another review in a few months giving update on this potential issue.
Overall Review:
Time for benchmarks!
Compared this new OCZ ARC 100 480GB (controller running RAID mode) with AS SSD benchmarks based on my single AHCI mode Mushkin Chronos Deluxe and am impressed, OCZ scores way faster!
Reason why I had Z97 SATA controller running RAID is that my other 2 SSD drives are utilizing RAID0 (my Win 8.1 x64 OS and Programs are here).
OCZ ARC 100 running on Intel Z97 (RAID mode, SSD not a RAID array member) SATA3
SEQ Read 460.68 MB/s Write 433.00 MB/s
4K Read 21.09 MB/s Write 86.63 MB/s
4K-64thread Read 295.11 MB/s Write 289.89 MB/s
Acc. Time Read 0.038 ms Write 0.045 ms
Score Read 362 Write 420
Total score 972
Mushkin Chronos Deluxe on Intel Z77 (RAID mode, SSD not a RAID array member) SATA3
SEQ Read 492.79 MB/s Write 159.11 MB/s
4K Read 19.51 MB/s Write 57.27 MB/s
4K-64thread Read 189.51 MB/s Write 147.84 MB/s
Acc. Time Read 0.201 ms Write 0.233 ms
Score Read 258 Write 221
Total score 602
I am pretty impressed with performance of this drive.
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