Just like its more expensive brother the Vertex 3, the Agility 3 is powered by a controller from SandForce SF-2200 series, which is the fastest 2.5-inch SSD processor currently on the market. The drive’s performance, like its price point, is slightly lower than that of the Vertex 3, but the Agility 3 still offers 525MB/s maximum sequential read speeds over the SATA III 6GBps interface, compared to 550MB/s in the Vertex 3. Both SSD series come with native TRIM support and can be configured in RAID. Due to the reduced performance, the Agility 3 series also uses less power; 2.7W vs. 3W in the Vertex 3 series when active and 1.5W vs. 1.65W inactive.
The read speeds are consistent across the three available capacities – 60GB, 120GB and 240GB – while the sequential write speeds are slightly lower in the 60GB model; 475MB/s compared to 500MB/s in the two larger capacities. IOPS performance at 4K is also slightly worse in the smallest drive, but hardly enough to be noticeable–80,000 IOPS compared to 85,000 IOPS in the 120GB and 240GB capacities.
The Agility 3 series is covered by a 3-year warranty and are all rated at 2,000,000 hours mean time before failure (MTBF). Aside from the slight difference in certain performance aspects, there is little difference between OCZ’s SF-2200 powered drives. The Vertex 3 is however not available in the smallest 60GB capacity.
Specifications:
- Sequential Read: Up to 525 MB/second
- Sequential Write: Up to 500 MB/second
- NAND type: MLC
- Interface: SATA 3 6GBps
- Controller: SandForce SF-2200
- Form Factor: 2.5 inches
- DRAM Cache: None
- Power Consumption (Active): 2.7W
- Power Consumption (Idle): 1.5W
- TRIM support: Yes
- SMART support: Yes
- Warranty: 3 years
- MTBF: 2,000,000 hours
Part Numbers:
- 60GB: AGT3-25SAT3-60G
- 120GB: AGT3-25SAT3-120G
- 240GB: AGT3-25SAT3-240G
Pricing and Availability:
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Reviews:
As a general boot/application drive I’m pretty confident in the Agility 3’s abilities, however those of you who work with (more than just play back) a lot of photos, video, music and file archives will want to spend the extra on the Vertex 3.
The performance of the latest OCZ SATA 6G based products are each individually ridiculous really. Even the ‘cheaper’ Agility 3 has an incredible throughput, excels in IOPs performance and in fact remains excruciation close to it’s bigger brother the Vertex 3.
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