PC Perspective: "Last week we checked out some new products from OCZ, namely the Vertex 2 and Agility 2 SSD's. Both models use the SandForce 1200 controller. While this relatively new controller performs very well, it has always come at the cost of greater overprovisioning of the drive. This means that while other drives get 120GB out of 128GB of installed flash, SandForce controlled units only make 100GB of that same 128GB available for user data. Less usable capacity translates directly into a higher cost/GB, as the bulk of the cost of an SSD is the flash memory chips themselves. Recognizing that cost might weigh more heavily on the typical end user's mind, OCZ worked with SandForce to try and bring the overprovisioning down to a more 'consumer' level. The result is what we just received in our lab"
OCZ Sandforce-based SSDs get a big firmware update. Icrontic has taken the changelog out of the crappy PDF and rendered it in plaintext for your convenience.
