OCZ Vertex LE (Limited Edition) OCZSSD2-1VTXLE200G 2.5" 200GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

Read speed - 269MB/s write speed 215MB/s ; Sandforce controller ; Trim + Garbage collection ; Boot my PC in under 25 seconds ; Loads into windows within 10 seconds after windows 7

Expensive ; Cannot be securely erased without firmware update. But ; Firmware update issues; see other thoughts

quick bootup, light and quiet

on standby or sleep mode. pc freeze when wake up

Fast, quiet, cool... though true for almost all SSDs ; Great performance on Snow Leopard, benchmakrs in comments

Not a plug and play experience with OSX. For best performance, you have to dig into the terminal to enable noatime, disable SMS, etc ; Because of size, you have to carefully pick and choose what to put on the drive

Performs better than advertised ( with proper setup ) ; 290 MB/s - Read ; 275 MB/s - Write ; through ATTO Benchmark (Industry Standard Tool)

The only con is ; If you dislike doing more than just plugging it in and getting the usual lightning fast SSD speeds

great speed, great bandwidth, and latency .2ms ; even in XP 32bit its access speed is adequate for running photoshop CS4 and all that jazz ; OS loads to desktop ready to click and roll (from time os loader screen appears) about 5 seconds ; boot screen...

GET the Extended version that has 7% GC 60GB ; XP does not support TRIM because M$ refuses to incorporate simple driver update to the kernel of older OS so that they can collect dollars for poor W7 upgrade ; thus speeds went from blank unformatted 50gb...

boot times are significantly fast, apps install fast; firefox pops up instantaneously; win 7 x64 installs in 7 min

small size

Very happy with this SSD, Win 7 - 7.6 score w/o any tweaks and boot times amazing on my old pc. It's literally feels like new one once again

I'd love SSD to cheaper

The hardware works as expected

The rebate is a sham. Once I got to the correct claim form, the date selection does not match the claim selection date range

Works Great have Win7 @ 64 bit, after my cmos boots windows boots in 3-4 seconds. My Acronis Back up can see the drives at raid-0. I have Win7 and programs install to them ; Other drives are two wd1.5t @ 32mem on separate raid 0 controller. These LE...

Can not get the OCZ flash program to see my 2 drives, to flash the update for them. There on a Intel raid -0 ; The rebates on this if you get 2 of them you only get to claim one for the rebate

Absolutely insane speeds. 100% as advertised with 286mb/s sustained read and 268mb/s sustained write in Ubuntu ; Pretty good price after rebate, especially considering the speed you get

Supposedly has some bad sectors, but otherwise fully passes SMART evaluation ; Could be cheaper I suppose