Final Words

Before we wrap things up, one of the appealing reasons to get a solid state drive is how quick things can load. Here's our results from booting up Windows 7 RC:

Game loading is also about 40% faster, taking less than 5 seconds to load up some levels of Call of Duty Modern Warfare for example. Between the OCZ Agility and Solid, we didn't see much difference in game loads, and even Windows loading, it is pretty close.

Long-term performance was an issue brought up with some articles we've seen. It would be difficult to clearly look at this, but we tried anyhow. We mimicked a typical home environment as closely as possible. The OCZ Agility was my primary drive on my main computer, loaded with my usual applications such as Office, Photoshop and my various testing applications. We’ve deleted and copied files to the drive almost on a daily basis, and forced myself out of the habit of weekly defragmentation. We held off on our review a bit longer testing short term performance and about six weeks after our initial setup, the benchmarks are still consistent and we did not experience any degradation in performance. We won’t be able to comment 6 months to a year down the line, but we feel pretty confident all should be well. The results you've seen today matched (sometimes above, sometimes below after several test runs, so this minimizes errors in testing) those results 6 weeks later.

As we've pointed out in the specs, power consumption is low and as a result the drive produces very little heat.

If there would be any downside, it would be the price per Gigabyte. For a SSD, we feel the price is very good as the OCZ Agility rings in slightly cheaper than competing drives. Of course, comparing price per Gigabyte to a mechanical desktop hard drive will paint a different picture, but it is no secret both drives are in completely different classes.

If you’re looking for a speedy drive to make your new primary partition, the OCZ Agility should be on your short list. It is fast, as well as consistently speedy for the last several weeks.

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