OCZ Test panel Update - September 2015

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Back in May 2015  ago we started a two years lasting test, ten of our Guru3D forum members received a OCZ Storage Solutions Vertex 460A SATA3 480GB SSD, and we'll are tracking and monitoring them closely for at least two years. Summer has almost passed, time for another update.



All SSDs in the test group are functioning and running well, it is quite interesting to see the actual usage flow of ten people at the same time, producing roughly the same performance results over and over again. The Vertex 460A SATA3 480GB SSD certainly isn't slowing down and several members now have written multiple terabytes of data on the SSD. Each month each participant will post their status on the SSD in our forums alongside with an overview of SMART info, TB written, lifespan expectancy and of course performance. This is an open project meaning everything gets reported transparently each month in the forum thread with a screen-shot or two running validation and test software. The good but also the bad will be reported. User feedback based on real-world user experiences. 

For this month we I will focus on our Ancient Guru, Darkest. He already reached a modest 2 TB of data written (host writes). The SMART readouts are 100% as well as life expectancy / life time remaining.

These OCZ Vertex 460A SSDs are endurance rated for 20GB/day of host writes for 3 years under typical client workloads. So 20GB x 365 days x 3 years = 21.9 TB. I certainly am interested to see how this level of writes will work out long term. But hey, that's what this test is all about. 

Below if you click the thumbnails you can see the SMART data of his SSD and performance scores. That's it for this months update, if you like to follow the test-panel you can do so in this forum thread

Darkest his latest comment: "Everything is still running well, it feels just as quick as when I first installed it."


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