Switch worthwhile - despite high cost

Anyone who is interested in the OCZ Vertex 3, has probably become familiar with the performance of these high-end SSD based on the numerous reviews. After this SSD is "on paper", the currently probably the fastest (affordable) consumer SSD market. Numerous test victories confirm this claim.

But what about in the daily user experience?

Who switch from a traditional hard drive in this SSD, will not believe his eyes at the first startup. With the installation of the SSD a perceived performance gain is connected, as it "older" users have probably experienced only when upgrading from floppy to hard disk drives.

But even if you switch from a more senior SSD is still quite realize performance gains, though so large no.
In my case I had a previously Intel 25M, which was one of the most powerful SSDs before enem year.

The "AHA experience" is guaranteed.

However, one should bear in mind when buying the Vertex 3, that the additional cost to a Vertex 2 only justify if the computer / notebook III (6 GB) has interface already has a current SATA. The Vertex 3 is though backwards compatible, ie SATA II support (3 GB), but the increase in speed is then largely lost. Otherwise, you can engage confidently also to Vertex 2, unless one considers the additional cost as an investment in the future, that is planning to upgrade the rest of the hardware.

Also one should note that the speed of 240 GB version is higher than the performance of the 120 GB version. The higher price rechtfertgt as not only against the background of double capacity.

The German OCZ Forum (just use Google search) is otherwise very informative and also helps further if there should be problems again.
OCZ provides regular updates FW ready so that newer chipsets / controllers are supported.