Don’t worry, the the older controller will still be in the market for at least another year. The Sandforce 21 are slated to essentially replace the older Sandforce 1222 controller. Up to 60k IOPS (4k random read aligned).Take a look at the Max 4k random writes on this drive at 60k! Some key differences between the Vertex 2 and 3: Note that there are speed differences throughout the lineup with the best performance being on the 240 GB drive with a slight drop at the 480 GB level on writes. Specifications and Featuresīelow you can see the technical specifications for the Vertex 3 line of drives. This drive is supposed to be ‘Breaking through performance, cost, and maintenance barriers, OCZ enterprise and consumer SATA solid state drives have taken the storage landscape by storm.’ Let’s see if OCZ made good on their promise. OCZ has given us the opportunity to look at their new Solid State Drive (SSD), the Vertex 3.