You know, I feel it's refreshing what OCZ is trying to accomplish here. From swift to fast to faster to freakishly furious really. The Vertex TURBO is without doubt the fastest SSD we have ever had in our hands (that wasn't setup in RAID 0 of course). Hands down it is an extremely interesting product. By using faster Samsung NAND flash memory and Elpida cache memory they have simply increased the clock frequency from 166 towards 180 MHz, and that brings in a little extra performance.

The big question however remains, is the extra cash worth the extra performance ? Well, that totally depends on your view of things of course. I say faster is better no-matter how small the steps, many incremental performance increases accumulated in the end mean a large step forward. But the reality is also that you'd probably never notice the faster performance as you already have some much speed to begin with (based off the regular Vertex). For the Turbo version you need to put down 350 EUR while the regular Vertex costs just over 305 EUR (120GB models). So for the Turbo version that's 2.92 EUR per GB.

So is it worth the extra fifty? Aah, man .. I dunno. I guess if you are going for the best of the best with your X58 motherboard, superduper overclocked Core i7 processor and that shagalagic Blade 2000 MHZ DDR3 memory kit, then sure .. every little bit of performance really helps. And if you are that person, sure .. you are going to adore the Vertex Turbo edition SSD. For the more regular PC users with a fetish for performance, I'd say just go for the regular Vertex or Agility drive really. These already are such extraordinary products.

Fact is, OCZ's approach towards bringing the fastest product to the market really works and you will gain some extra performance. We can't get enough of of all the SSD madness really and realize ..we are closing in really fast towards the actual bandwidth limitations of SATA2, which is not necessarily a bad thing for the end user (right now) but for technology evolving this fast ... it's going to be a problem within the very near future as SSDs will get faster than the SATA2 ports can handle.

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Bottom line: SSDs are the future -- Bring it on, we love hardware like this !