OCZ has now officially released the Limited Edition Solid State Drive which is rumoured to be the first to utilise the Sandforce controller. Using MLC NAND flash memory, the OCZ Vertex Limited Edition SSD has a 3.0Gbps SATA interface as well as including TRIM support. With reported read and write speeds of up to 270MB/s and 250MB/s respectively, not to mention a sustained write of 235MB/s, the Vertex certainly packs a punch.
However, the problems that face most SSDs are drops in performance after prolonged and continuous usage with the read and write speeds falling considering from the peak “out-of-the-box” performance. Whether the Vertex LE will sucome to this fate is yet to be seen but we do now have some pricing for the drives. The 100GB OCZ Vertex Limited Edition SSD model is set to cost around £350 while the 200GB version will set you back around double that at £700.
