Some time ago, we told you all about OCZ’s Agility 3, the representative of the company’s SSDs, so we got acquainted with the new generation of SandForce controllers through SF2200 present in the said device. Recently, we’ve received samples of their Vertex 3, as well as Kingston’s HyperX SSD devices, both of which are highly reminiscent of Agility 3 – not only do they share the same controller, but we also suspect the same for the memory modules contained within.

Both models we’re presenting today have 256 GB of memory at disposal, but as we already explained on several occasions, the new SandForce controller (SF-2281) doesn’t have a separate buffer chip, relying instead on one of the 16 GB modules to manipulate data when the SSD is full or replace failed cells. This gives an effective capacity of 240 GB, as well as a small reserve should some of the cells fail, which can’t hurt.