VisionTek Racer 120GB SSD Review - PAGE 1

Over the last few years VisionTek has been branching out into different market segments, and their product lines now include graphics cards, memory and power supplies. Neoseeker has thus far covered VisionTek’s memory products extensively through our reviews of their dual and quad-channel Ultimate performance memory kits. Back then we speculated that VisionTek might be moving over to SSDs because they are the next logical step after releasing memory.

VisionTek is taking a two-two pronged approach with their solid state drives by releasing both a high-performance Racer Series and value orientated GoDrive series. Both lines of SSDs are powered by the latest SF-2281 processor and utilize the SATA 6Gb/s interface, but the GoDrives use asynchronous NAND memory while the Racer Series uses 24nm Toshiba Toggle NAND. This makes the Racer Series amongst some of the fastest drives on the market with sequential read and write transfers of 555MB/s and 520MB/s, respectively. In addition, it has extremely fast IOPS performance of up to 85K IOPS (4K aligned).

With such blistering fast transfer speeds, the VisionTek Racer Series does have a slightly higher MSRP than drives using slower NAND. Still, at $229 for a 120GB model it is competitively priced against similar SSDs on the market. The series also includes 240GB and 480GB models, but of course they will be priced even higher. Was VisionTek successful in maing an SDD that can compete with more established solid state drive manufacturers?