Testseek.com have collected 94 expert reviews of the OCZ 2.5 inch Octane Series SATA600 and the average rating is 80%. Scroll down and see all reviews for OCZ 2.5 inch Octane Series SATA600.
December 2011
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The editors liked
Great allround performance
Good incompressible data throughput
The OCZ Octane SSD offers a large amount of storage at a relatively low price. The drive supports SATA 3 (6Gbps)
Performs very well
Has up to 1TB of storage space
And works with all popular platforms
Including Windows
Mac OS
And Linux
The editors didn't like
Very pricey
Smaller
More affordable siblings offer less performance
The OCZ Octane SSD is comparatively slower in terms of data transfer speed than other SATA 3-based solid-state drives. The drive is significantly more expensive than traditional hard drives of the same capacity
Without a doubt the OCZ Octane is a fast SSD, but is it the fastest? Well the short answer is no. That said, we do not believe the Octane needs to be the fastest SSD on the planet to be a success. Rather OCZ need to focus on creating a stable and relia...
Abstract: Earlier this year OCZ acquired Indilinx, one of the first SSD controller makers to really make a splash in the enthusiast community. Some months later, OCZ debuted its first drive based on an Indilinx design: The Octane series of SSDs. Based on OCZ's i...
Published: 2012-02-27, Author: Matthew , review by: pcmag.com
Very good performance.
Expensive. Not routinely faster than competing drives. Has trouble with high-queue-depth writes
The OCZ Octane (512GB) solid-state drive marks the reunion of OCZ and Indilinx, and is a fine performer in many situations—if not during intense writing tasks....
IMPORTANT: Although the rating and final score mentioned in this conclusion are made to be as objective as possible, please be advised that every author perceives these factors differently at various points in time. While we each do our best to ensure...
The OCZ Octane cannot blow you away with its performance. It is inferior to the latest SandForce- and Marvell-based SSDs across most of real-life tests. The synthetic benchmarks provide the explanation: the Octane is too slow at random-address operati...
The OCZ Octane has been out for a couple of months now. We haven't seen any reports of widespread issues with it, which is good news. However, there are fewer than 10 user reviews of Octane SSDs on Newegg, suggesting that the number of units in the wild—...
While we'd hoped for a return to form for Indilinx, its new Everest drive controller lags behind the competition when it comes to performance. The new v1.13 firmware sees the OCZ Octane 512GB deliver sequential and random speeds notably slower than those...
OCZ leveraged the benefit of owning their own controller to quickly roll out an update to their Octane line of SSDs that optimized their performance for 4K writes. OCZ easily accomplished that goal, driving an increase of 138% in the 128GB model and a gai...
Silky smooth operation as a system drive, Excellent sequential reading and writing performance, Very good 4K random I/O performance at low queue depths, SATA 6Gbps support, TRIM support under Windows 7, Lightning fast access times, Completely silent
Writing speeds do not scale very well when queue depths rise.
Let us summarise the most important positive and negative points belowPositiveSilky smooth operation as a system drive.Excellent sequential reading and writing performance.Very good 4K random I/O performance at low queue depths.SATA 6Gbps support.TRIM sup...
