 So today I'll be doing a quick unboxing of a new SSD from OCZ. This is the Vertex 2 50GB. Now the specs for the Vertex 2 50GB, 100GB, 200GB, 60GB, 120GB, and 240GB, it's available in a lot of capacities, are pretty much the same. Now the biggest difference between the Vertex 2 and the Vertex 1 is that the Vertex 2 uses the new SanForce controller. It uses the SF1200 and the whole Vertex 2 series, unlike SanForce controllers from other manufacturers and unlike the Agility 2 series, has a special firmware tweak that allows it to get better performance. In rights, basically. Okay, it's a high performance design, MLC flash memory, trim support, RAID capability, all of those pretty much go without saying these days, and it includes a 3.5 inch SSD adapter for desktops. That's pretty neat. Let's flip around to the back, see what OCZ has to say for themselves here. Now, this is the trick. Read up to 285MB per second and write up to 275MB per second, with sustained writes up to 250MB per second. That's huge, because the SanForce controller actually allows MLC flash to write more data than you are actually writing to the disk. Now, I'm going to explain what that means. It's basically compressing the data. Let's say you've got 10GB of data you're going to just write to your drive. It's compressing it on the fly, which means compared to the older Indolink controller, it's quite a bit more complicated, but it means that maybe even though it's writing 10GB of data and then it'll read off 10GB of data, it might only write 8GB of data. So that means A, your SSD will last longer because you're using fewer write cycles, and B, it will go faster because you're writing that 10GB of data in only 8GB. So it'll go 20% faster, and I don't have a knife today, but that's okay. You guys can live while I just cut this open with a pen. Wow, they've really improved the resiliency of their plastic on the packaging compared to previous Vertex series drives. There we go, it's finally off. Okay, let's get this opened up. So, let's see, we had a look at the specs. Oh, it opens at the top, not the side. How innovative. Okay, here we go. So they've updated their included foamy packaging thing to have a slot in the back where they've stuffed in a 2.5-inch to 3.5-inch drive adapter. So there it is, it looks like that. I don't remember if I did an unboxing on this at some point or not, but it's fairly straightforward. You just, here, I'll just pull the drive out really quick. So you just use the screws on the bottom of the drive, strap them in like this, and then you attach this to your case using the 3.5-inch drive bay holes. Okay, so let's have a look at what else they've included. Also some mounting screws. So four screws to attach the SSD to the adapter, and then four screws to mount the adapter in your case. Thanks, OCZ. Then they've also got a warranty card here, installation guide and warranty info. Let's see, how long is the warranty on this one? Hmm. Three years, there you go. Three-year warranty. Awesome. Let's get the drive opened up here. Caution, content sensitive to electrostatic discharge. Open only at a static-free workstation. Okay, well hopefully that won't be a problem for us today. Okay, so it looks just like the old Vertex drives. Actually, this is kind of funny. They have changed the shape of the sticker, but they haven't changed the shape of the outline for the sticker in the top of the drive. So it's a square cutout with a rounded sticker in it now. Also, they've updated the label with two, rather than just Vertex. Excellent improvement there as well. Your warranty is void if this is removed or broken, so you can't take the drive apart. And then let's have a look. So we've got our two and a half inch mounting holes here. We've got our two and a half inch mounting holes on the other side. And then at the bottom we have more two and a half inch standard mounting holes, so this will fit in almost any laptop or two and a half inch adapter or case that supports two and a half inch drives. Here is our part number, so it is the 2VTX series. Okay, and then let me see, what else do we have here? Ah, yeah, we've got our SATA 2 power and SATA 2 data. Now these drives do still run off of SATA 2 rather than the new SATA 3, but the reality of it is, SATA 3 wouldn't really contribute anything because the maximum performance of SATA 2 is 300 megabit per second or about, wait, no it isn't. 1.5, 3 gigabit per second, which comes out to roughly, and this isn't quite right, 300 megabytes per second. So at 285, 275 for reads and writes, this drive is still not bottlenecked by the SATA 2 interface. Anyway, thank you for checking out my unboxing of the OCZ Vertex 2 SSD.