Product showcase

The SSD can be opened up easily and shows a full-sized PCB.Intersting, to the left you can see an mSATA interface as well. This 6Gbps storage unit makes use of 19nm MLC Synchronous NAND from Toshiba. At total of 16 NAND flash memory ICs (eight on each side) can be spotted on the PCB, they make up for 256 GB capacity, minus over provisioning which brings the SSD down to 240 GB. But this does increase endurance by 150%, increase sustained & mixed performance and add increased security into the feature set and 150% increased write endurance rated from 20GB/day to 50GB/day of host writes for 5 years under typical client workloads.

The NAND FLASH partition are assigned directly to the controller. All the way to the lower right you can see one out of two ICs, these are in fact Micron RAM ICs, each bringing 256MB of cache memory towards to controller for fast file write operations. The two 256MB DDR3 DRAM chips operate at 1333MHz

Then we flip the PCB around on the right the Barefoot 3 8-channel dual core controller can be seen. The labeling has been a little washed out unfortunately. This is an eight-channel controller with the ability of a possible 175~200MB/s per channel throughput, which is a really nice value. 
 

Still, that is good news for the lower 128GB SKU performance wise. Combined the bandwidth is just exceptional for single non RAID drive. The controller supports TRIM. In the photo above we zoom in a little at the DDR3 memory cache chip from Micron.

As stated several times now, the MLC NAND used is 19nm in architecture, a batch of Toshiba MLC NAND memory. Good to know is that OCZ will bundle an Acronis True Image HD license (compatible with Windows 8) for free.
 

Mind you that OCZ is releasing three models (SKUs), the OCZ Vector 480GB is retailing for roughly $500, 240GB model for $250, and the 120GB model for $135, so that's just over 1 USD per GB. Prices in EURO will be roughly equivalent.