Introduction
OCZ is a company whose history of flash storage products began a few years ago with the Vertex range of SSDs that were renowned for being affordable but not the best performers or most reliable. After a tumultuous last few years, the business is now in the capable hands of Toshiba, and is trying to carve itself a new place in the SSD with the ARC 100, one of the most affordable 2.5-inch solid-state drives you can find.
Arriving in 120GB, 240GB and 480GB flavours, the ARC 100 is aiming at the same cost-conscious crowd that has so far responded so favourably to Crucial’s similarly affordable MX100 SSD and Samsung’s 840 Evo.
OCZ delivered a 240GB model to the TechRadar Pro labs, which has a street price starting at £83 (around $100, or AU$115). Quoted sequential read and write speeds of 490MB/s and 450MB/s indicate the ARC 100 isn’t trying to compete with the best performing drives, but its spec sheet looks more than adequate including perfectly respectable endurance and IOPS figures.
Design
The most striking external aspect of the ARC 100 is its brand new blue chassis, …read more
Source: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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