OCZ Storage Solutions, now a Toshiba Group company, today announced its new Vertex 460 SATA-3 SSD series. We previously reported about these drives as OCZ silently showed them at CES 2014 in Las Vegas, earlier this month.
As we already knew, the Vertex 460 is an evolution of the Vertex 450, and uses the Barefoot 3 M10 controller. Instead of the 20 nm IMFT NAND used in the Vertex 450 SSDs, OCZ now uses 19 nm Toshiba NAND, which is an obvious choice since Toshiba acquired OCZ.
OCZ promises that the Vertex 460 SSDs start fast and continue that way over time, without the use of synthetic software-based optimization. The company claims the Vertex 460 offers up to 545 MB/s sequential reads, 525 MB/s sequential writes, 95,000 4K random read IOPS, and up to 90,000 4K random write IOPS, while featuring sustained 4K random write performance up to 23,000 IOPS.
The BF3 M10 controller supports AES-256 encryption and OCZ specifies that Vertex 460 SSDs should able to deliver 20 GB of host writes per day with a 3-year warranty. The company adds a suite of flash management tools that analyzes and dynamically adapts to increasing NAND vulnerabilities as flash cells wear. This should result in improved data integrity and drive life over the long term.
The Vertex 460 SSD series SSDs are now available in 120GB, 240GB, and 480GB capacities with ultra-slim 7mm alloy housing. The drivescome with a 3.5-inch desktop adapter and Acronis True Image cloning software to make it easy to switch from a HDD to SSD.
Newegg has them on their website, the 120 GB model for $119.99 ($1 per GB) , the 240 GB at $139.99 ($0.58 per GB) $199.99 ($0.83 per GB) and the 480 GB at $359.99 ($0.75 per GB) but all of them are listed out of stock.
