I bought this OCZ as I’ve used other OCZ SSD’s in the past and when one failed they replaced it with no issues. So, I gave them some customer loyalty, even though it’s really Toshiba now. I ordered this as I wanted to see what all the NVME fuss was about, even though I had an older motherboard and knew I’d have to mess with the bios, and adaptor cards, to get it to work if I wanted it as a boot drive – that’s another story – but the result was I bought a slighter newer Z77 Extreme 9 board and Asrock kindly sent me an updated bios for that, which means I can now boot from the NMVE.

Was it worth it? – No! Yes, it benchmarks like lightening and is 5 times faster than either my OCZ Vertex 4 or my Samsung Pro 850, but it doesn’t ‘feel’ any faster when I’m using the drive and that’s really the point – My steam folder is too large for this 500Gb drive, so unless I wanted to keep swapping my current favourite game from drive to drive to get faster loads, there’s really no point. Everyday programs like word, excel etc. load so fast there’s no tangible difference between the drives, but if you’re like me, you have to try it yourself to see. If you have a newer setup and are getting an SSD for the first time then you should get one, otherwise if you already have an SSD, which from a rotating hard drive, is like moving from a floppy drive to a hard drive (thinking back to my Amiga days), resist the urge. I don’t want to sound negative as this drive is good, it runs cool and I’ve had no thermal throttling issues (they include a thermal pad in the box) but I’m just a little disappointed that I didn’t see a huge jump in real-world performance.