OCZ Summit 120GB SSD Review

Value

The term “Value” is such an amorphous term that it truly has different meanings for different people. For some a hard drive is only as good as its performance potential, for others it is how quiet or durable it is; for others still it’s how effective it is for its cost. We here at HWC try to provide as many answers as possible for the term “Value”. Hopefully by this point in the review people looking at performance potential will have a fairly good idea of what its Value is. For the “best bang for the buck” crowd we have included a chart below showing how much a give drive costs per GB . No consideration has been made for performance, “durability” or any other extraneous factors; this is just raw performance vs. monetary cost. All prices are based on the lowest price found in our Price Comparison engine at the time of their initial review.


OK lets be honest, you don’t buy a Bentley because it is a great bang for your buck car.
Much like when you buy OCZ branded drives you are buying into proven customer service in the SSD arena and the best support money can buy. This is why this drive is more expensive on per gigabyte basis than Corsair, though to be fair this is also an apples to oranges comparison as the P64 is by very definition a 64GB drive and the Summit is in a different class with 120GB. You are also paying for the convenience of not needing to RAID 0 two 64GB SSDs to get this Summit’s size. In addition, as we saw the Summit is able to outperform the smaller sized Corsair drive as well.