OCZ Agility 2 Extended 60GB Review - PAGE 9

The SF-1200 controller is quite the amazing product. It offers extremely fast read and write performance, little to no write amplification and has better small write performance than other consumer based controller currently on the market. All of this translates into some very impressive real-world performance for the OCZ Agility 2, as it was the fastest drive in the test-bed in many of the non synthetic benchmarks. This is perhaps the best indicator of how a drive will perform in the wild, as many benchmarks that don’t deal with real-life performance, only showing what a product is capable of, and not how it would perform in day to day use. So, with the Agility 2 coming out ahead of the other drives in the file copy test and Windows boot time it is a good indicator that this drive will perform extremely well in any system.

The Agility 2 comes with amazing performance, but it does also has a few issues. The first is that the drive uses the consumer based firmware, which limits the small write performance to 10,000 IOPS, and the second is that even with this drive being marketed as a value based product it still commands a much higher premium than larger capacity HDD's. However, these issues are common for a consumer based SF-1200 SSD and despite the cap this drive still had phenomenal small write performance. Since this model is part of the "extended" series you get more storage capacity without a price increase, and still have your choice of 60GB, 120GB and 200GB models.

Ultimately, the Agility 2 is an amazing product that has performance to spare, and comes aggressively priced for a SandForce based SDD. So, if you're looking for a replacement for that pesky little bottleneck we call an HDD this could be a good option!