Pros: very fast with ultra low latency

Cons: none

Overall Review: need amd/intel 6Gb/s ports to utilize the speed. the marvel controllers only offer mediocre performance. i put this and a V3 240Gb ssd in raid 0 on a gigabyte p67-ud4 and get over 1Gb/s transfers. visit the ocz forums to get up to speed on ssds.

Pros: Monstrous speeds!! Installed in a Dell XPS 15 L502x (Sandy Bridge/SATA III) laptop with Windows 7 Ultimate x64. I see none of the problems the other users are reporting. Boot time from BIOS to Desktop is 15 seconds. Windows Experience Index reports a 7.9!!!

Cons: Just be careful to follow the guidance on AHCI mode and the Intel Rapid Storage Tech drivers. Use the LPM Disable reg fix. See my instructions below.

Overall Review: HOW TO INSTALL WINDOWS 7 ON THE VERTEX 3: 1. Update BIOS if necessary 2. Download latest Intel Rapid Storage Tech driver and extract to root of thumb drive. 3. Set BIOS to SATA AHCI mode. 4. Install Windows 7 as follows: a) Edit BIOS for DVD bootability. b) Boot with Windows DVD inserted. c) When prompted, select "Load Driver", insert thumb drive and browse to Intel driver. 5. Use the Registry fix to disable LPM Command for SSD from here: forums(dot)crucial(dot)com/t5/Solid-State-Drives-SSD/Solution-C300-Disk-Freeze-ups-in-Windows-7-solved-for-me/td-p/38766 6. Verify Device Manager->IDE ATA Controllers shows Intel SATA AHCI Driver 7. Follow SSD Optimization Guide at: www(dot)thessdreview(dot)com

Pros: See other

Cons: See Other

Overall Review: ** As an update to my previous review: Found root causes of BSOD's with this drive as a system drive on my configuration with the Intel SATA controller. It is caused by power fluctuation on the SATA HDD power wire. Some power supplies come with multiple SATA power connectors on one power wire, and hooking up this drive in such a daisy-chain manner with other SATA devices can cause a sudden voltage drop which win7 would detect as power instability and throw a self-protection method (BSOD). The simple fix is to dedicate only one power wire to this drive if it is being used as the system disk.

Pros: It just worked. I made sure my motherboard was set for AHCI and installed windows 7. Restarting only takes about a minute most of the time being used up in pre-windows stuff having nothing to do with the SSD. Run the WEI for Windows 7 to see you are running an SSD and use Crystal disk to verify settings. I upgraded from a raptor drive that is almost 5 years old and yeah I can see quite the difference! Game loading times on BC2 are not as fast and I expected though...

Cons: My setup is the p6x58d-e with a core i7 920. I will save you some time using google and say that you WILL NOT be able to achieve the read and write speeds of 500 on this board because of the marvell 9128 chipset. It only uses 1 PCI-E lane with has a max bandwidth of 500MB. You can decide whether to us the generic microsoft driver or the marvell one. People are getting mixed performance trends with both. So with driver writing and whatnot that it actually around 350-400. Still really fast, but it sucks a bit that most X58 architectures have bottle neck by using this marvell controller. Not going to take off an egg for that because it's not the SSD.

Overall Review: People were having problems with the MAX IOPS edition with stability. This has not been the case for me. I ended up purchasing this from Micro Center in case there were problems so I could actually return it. I would WAIT to buy this drive at least until the Force 3 series by Corsair comes out to make the market more competitive. Also, who knows when the Wildfire series by Patriot will come out. The new Agility and Solid series were a joke with pricing, but not it seems to be getting better. The MSRP on the vertex 3 is 250:/

Pros: Very fast drive, 7.9 WEI with a SATA 6G Intel controller.

Cons: Firmware (2.06-2.09) issues that cause the drive to internally freeze causing pauses or crashes for the computer. This require a power cycle of the drive and computer. Unrefined Firmware update process. Newer firmware attempts to fix the lockup/crash problem by slowing the drive down (it's still fast, but not as fast).

Overall Review: My first drive (FW: 2.02) had issues and I updated to 2.06 and had the drive crash and freeze since the update. Performance was also slightly lower. OCZ forums became flooded with all sorts of users with the same issue (firmware update causes problems). After an RMA, my new drive has 2.02 and high performance (compared to those who have updated to 2.06, 2.09, or 2.11) with no drive crashes/lockups. My system runs perfectly 24/7 with 2.02.

Pros: Fast and steady. Not much more needed. What is fast? Well boot time is from shut down about 30 sec. File transfer is about 100MB/sec. Slowdowns occur when there are many small files down to aprox 20-30 MB still fairly fast considering my WD Blacks drop to 2-10 MB sec when moving many small files. I had one bsod death 2 weeks after purchase. Probably drivers .I reinstalled windows and it hasn't happened since. I purchased it Dec 2011. Paid $224.00. It's a steal at $114.00(today's offer). Install is a slight hassle with driver loads, especially if you are new to ssd. But, if you do your google searches and get prepared prior to install, you should be gtg.

Cons: Too Small. Files today are large. With your user folder holding most files nowadays, it tends to fill up quickly. Simple fix for me was to move the user folder to a different drive during windows install using Audit Mode. Flawless. My machine does not run this at full speeds. I do not have SATA III I bought it for my next build. BUt wanted to speed this one up. Wow it worked.

Overall Review: Moving 4.765 GB movie Gigabyte X48 DS5 Intel Q8200 Quad 2.33GHZ 8Gb Mushkin Ram Radeon HD 4780 2GB Graphics Card OCZ Vertex 3 120 GB SSD WD 640 GB Black WD 2TB Black WD 2TB Green Seagate 1TB HDD (external Esata enclosure)) moved from green to black WD not bad at 50-75 MB/sec

Pros: As other reviews indicate, this drive is UNBELIEVABLY fast! I installed it in a Lenovo W520 and was continually pleasantly surprised at how fast it was!

Cons: The drive did not fit very well into the drive tray / cage of my Lenovo W520 - I had to use the screws on the bottom as the tray didn't wrap around the drive fully enough to use the screws on the side. Also, I'm hoping this is an isolated incident--any drive is subject to occasional failures--but after about 6 weeks of using it, my laptop froze, I rebooted to a 'Primary HDD detection failure', and it hasn't been recognized by the BIOS in any of my systems since. However, I'm going through the RMA process with OCZ now and they are indeed replacing the drive, so that's good.

Overall Review: ISSUE WITH INTEL 6 SERIES CHIPSET: If you're planning on using this drive in any system with an Intel 6 series chipset, there's a known compatibility issue related to Link Power Management (LPM) that causes systems with this chipset and these drives to periodically 'freeze' for 60-90 seconds. There is an easy workaround though (disable LPM in the registry). OCZ is aware of the issue and is supposedly working on a firmware update which will resolve the issue. Go to Bing and search for 'ocz disable sata link power management' for a full write-up and workaround steps at www.ocztechnologyforum.com.

Pros: Set-up raid 0. read speed 1000mb/s. Everything opens instantly. RAM usage went down...

Cons: None- so far

Overall Review: Windows boots fast, but there is a small hickup at start-up, i think this one is not related to drive.