OCZ Technology Vertex

33% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

Very competitve speeds ; In-house firmware ; Nipping at the heels of the Samsung Pro drive

Random read speed could be better ; Pricey

The Vertex 450 is right up there in almost every metric. Sequential reads and writes are close enough to the competition that it hardly matters, and so are our application tests, though you can say that of every drive. Random write performance is as...

Fast Cheap Reliable

Works well, much faster than a hard-disk loaded operating system in a matter of minutes!

Not quite as fast under test as claimed but varied according to file size.

Fast Windows boot time

A little expensive

Fantastic SSD, great speed and reliability. Has boosted performance of my 2011 27" iMac and things like Photoshop and Lightroom load in no time what so ever!

None to date

Good Capacity and easy to install. Price just right.

Causing compatibility issues with my Dell/Win7 PC

- extreme preformance - straight forward HDD replacement

- bit bulky case (it's SSD doesn't need to be this fat)

Great drive, I use it in a Blackmagic Hyperdeck shuttle. Does QT records fine, doesn't quite do uncompressed.

Very quick.

Bought as the W7 System disc for my latest build. Install was very quick and error free. I have been running for a couple af weeks now and I have had no problems. Great to escape from "gramophone" technolgy at last. (not quite true - I have included a...

I would ideally have liked a larger capacity, but my budget limited me. However, prices have fallen steeply over the last 6 months so if I was buying again in a couple of years I would expect to get a 512GB drive for a similar price.