On the growing SSD market where key players are fighting to get the largest piece of the cake, three manufacturers are currently getting the best "hands": Intel, Samsung and OCZ. The latest is definitely a challenger when one looks at the size of the two other companies, however it does not prevent it to release interesting products and to demonstrate its technology and ability to offer new and competitive SSD models.
Surfing on this wave, OCZ released new series known as Vertex EX. Unlike the Vertex models we tested, those new units are based on SLC chips.
While being more expensive and offering lower storage capacity, this type of flash memory offers higher transfer speed, respectively 260 and 210 MB/s in reading and writing mode. Those average figures are not really massively higher than those recorded with MLC-based SSD, however SCL chips offer higher transfer speed for small size files and higher writing cycles, up to 100,000 cycles, 10-fold more than with the MLC.
