When OCZ's Trion 100 was released last July it proved to be a pretty impressive value-forward SSD series. It also happened to be a rather big deal for OCZ and end users since it combined very good performance with an affordable price, features which were backstopped by some key Toshiba technology. As we stated at that time the OCZ Trion 100 was primarily targeted at users who were migrating from HDD territory and wanted higher levels of performance without sacrificing too much capacity.

Was that original Trion 100 perfect? Not quite since a good amount of expectation management was required to understand that it wasn't going to be a chart-topper. It wasn't meant to be one anyways. However, we still found performance fell by the wayside in some key metrics.