Realignment of priorities with respect to solid state storage at OCZ came as no surprise considering the turbulence of the past two years resulting in Ralph Schmidt’s appointment as the new CEO and the abrupt exit of Ryan Petersen from this part of the world.The unchallenged leader of SSD models is now reducing it’s consumer line to just four models and, just as unexpectedly, the ‘LSI SandForce Driven’ Vertex 3.20 gets a refresh and remains in that mix. Understanding that the OCZ Vertex 3 SSD is probably one of the most popular SSDs of the past few years, OCZ’s retention of this drive might not be such a shock to most but, competitiveness aside, OCZ now had the opportunity to ‘cleanse’ their product line with in house design. As shown at ceBIT Germany 2013 earlier this month, the OCZ consumer SSD family consists of the Vertex 3.20, Vertex 4, Vector and Vector PCIe. Let’s take a closer look at the 20nm refreshed Vertex 3, OCZ’s new value offering…



Link: The SSD Review