OCZ Summit 120GB SSD Review

First Impressions

In typical OCZ fashion, the all metal case of the Summit drive is done in a two tone colour scheme consisting of an all black case with silver metal cover. In fact it looks a heck of a lot like the Vertex and the Apex drives.

Unlike the Vertex, the Summit’s top label is also done in an all black affair with white lettering and silver highlights (thought the “SSD” is done in black lettering surrounded by silver). As we said in past reviews, we like this two tone look as a fast expensive drive SHOULD look like a fast and expensive drive.


By flipping the drive over we see that just as with past OCZ drives the back label of the Summit is full of information. Mention is also made of the .35A draw on the 5V line, which (unlike the questions we had about the accuracy of the label being correct during the Vertex review) is well within the range of the 2 watts that Samsung quotes for their “version” of this drive.


When you look at the business end of the drive is the ubiquitous power and data ports but no jumper pins. As we explained in the Corsair review, this is to be expected as Samsung does not need jumper pins for flashing their drives. This difference in philosophy is one of the things which separate this THIRD generation drive from ex-Samsung employee startup Indilinx’s first. In all honesty we think the Samsung's method of doing things is more polished and refined as jumpering ANY drive (especially one as expensive as 120GB SSD) just to update firmware is a less than optimal solution After all, jumpers are an easy solution from an engineering point of view but we're not all engineers now are we?