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another SSD unboxing yes yes it is however there is a very good reason for it this is the ocz vertex okay you've heard this before but wait there's more limited edition okay so this is a limited edition drive it is a 200 gigabyte drive that I'm going to be unboxing today which seems like an odd odd number 44 an SSD because typically what we've seen in the past is 32 gig 64 gig 128 250 at cetera et cetera but no this is a 200 gig it is a high performance design with NLC flash memory am more on this in a minute trim support and raid capability but let's go back to the back of this Drive okay latest groundbreaking solid-state taking shape in the limited edition okay you can probably read that if you pause it so I'll let you do that if you want to this is where this Drive separates itself from the crowd reads up to 270 megabytes per second totally unexceptional right up to 250 megabytes per second we have not seen an mlc flash drive capable of anywhere near this kind of a right speed with sustained writes up to 235 megabytes per second so that means that there's a little bit of a trick this is not another in the links based ocz vertex drive this is based on an entirely new controller called the I could get the package off I'm actually not sure if I'm allowed to say exactly what it is but i'll say that it's made by a different vendor one that we've been eagerly anticipating the controllers from and it the initials are s and F okay so if you if you know too much about SSDs in fact you can probably google it all right let's get this thing open here but the way that they achieve this high level of right performance is through a compression algorithm that actually writes far less than you're actually telling it to now that means that the controller on this drive is far more complicated than an indolent controller but it is able to achieve a high level of performance without expensive flash so it's a bit of a trade-off okay so with an installation guide how to prepare your drive before use more installation guide formatting and your limited warranty which i believe is three years on this drive but it looks like it doesn't say that here must say it's somewhere yeah there it is three year warranty on this particular ocz product so the vertex limited edition actually you know what I'm gonna do something unprecedented and I'm just going to kind of put this down and I'm going to let the cameraman look at it for a second and I'm going to step out of the room and go get another prop one holding I'll be back yeah I hope that was really interesting I'm back just closing the door I wanted to compare it to the older vertex okay so there we go basically it looks almost the same you can see that the label is slightly shinier because vertex is now shiny and limited edition is shiny they're both say 22 so that means that we're not going to be moving beyond the approximately 270 megabyte per second overall bandwidth limitation of a SATA 2 controller they're the same thickness so that means they're going to be compatible with pretty much 99% of laptops out there they feature mounting holes on the sides as well as on the bottoms of the drives the bottoms of these drives actually look pretty much exactly the same you can see the part number is slightly different this is a vtx le whereas the older ones are just vtx and I think that's pretty much all there is to say about it the vertex le comes at a price premium you can see that we've got aceite to interface here say 22 power stata to data but you are getting the fastest MLC performance on the market today and that is why this is worth unboxing even though we're just looking at another black SSD drive from OCC thank you for checking out my video blog