A closer look at the SSD...

     The OCZ Solid State Drive has been built to match the size of a standard 2.5" low-profile hard drive. Replacing the existing drive in your notebook will just mean swapping the mounting kit from the drive you have now to the SSD. The mounting holes are right where they should be on the SSD. But if you're looking to add a second hard drive to your laptop, then you might need to order the mounting kit from the manufacturer.

     Of course the electrical interface is standard Serial ATA so naturally any SATA ready system can utilize the SSD.  So once the drive is installed into your system, the BIOS will treat it just like a standard hard drive. As far as the technology goes, it's simple enough that its available to anyone in any experience group.

     That makes testing the OCZ Solid State Drive a snap! Here's how it's going to go. There are two systems that I'll mount the SSD into as the primary C: drive with a fresh install of Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit. From there, we'll run a few hard drive benchmarks and then I'll graph the data. We'll compare those numbers to the two drives you see here. Representing 2.5" notebook drives will be the Toshiba HDD2D60 and from the Desktop line-up I'll bench the Western Digital Raptor-X.

Test Systems:

Page 1:  Intro Page 2:  Up Close Page 3:  Testing (Part 1) Page 4:  Testing (Part 2) Page 5:  Testing (Part 3) Page 6:  Conclusion