Join as we review the latest storage spawn from Toshiba, the Toshiba OCZ VX500 series SSDs. This new model positions itself in the mainstream SSD segment fighting with the Samsung EVO series, Crucial MX300 and comparable SSDs in both price and performance. It is an SSD series that is 100% Toshiba proprietary, that includes the controller and 15nm MLC NAND flash memory. Value for money wise you will receive a an SSD series that is fast enough, it won't break your wallet and comes with a great after-sales warranty program. You guys might have noticed a change in the OCZ series SSDs, they are now being branded as Toshiba with OCZ product series. Roughly a year or two ago Toshiba purchased OCZ. Up-to April this year OCZ functioned as a separate brand owned by Toshiba, the decision was made to house OCZ as a brand inside Toshiba

Yes, in a storage world dominated by the big guns like Micron and Samsung margins are getting smaller and smaller. Toshiba OCZ needed to address that to get the price per gigabyte down and offer a competitive solution that is fast, will be excellent in any PC and obviously a product that can compete with the Samsungs EVO series in both price and performance. To do so they are using an in-house Toshiba controller that steers all new 15nm MLC based Toshiba NAND flash memory. So the Toshiba OCZ VX500 series is obviously SATA 6Gb/s based and comes with read performance of up-to 550MB/s and a peak write performance of 515MB/s with IOPS 4K read/Write: 92k/65k. These SSDs are rated at 74~592 TB (depending on volume size) written during the 5-year warranty period.