If there's one company that just can't get enough of new, revised and quicker SSDs, it has to be California's OCZ Technology.
We know the company has insanely-quick drives on the horizon in the form of its Sandforce-based, second-generation Vertex 2 series, but with 2009's Vertex Turbo Edition starting to feel a little dated in comparison to the competition, OCZ is introducing an interim refresh dubbed the Vertex Limited Edition.
Arriving as a step up from the not-exactly-slow Vertex Turbo Edition, the all new Limited Edition drive promises a "cutting-edge new architecture" and - with read and write speeds of up to 270MB/s and 250MB/s, respectively - takes the mantle as OCZ's fastest MLC-based drive to date.
OCZ reckons the 2.5in drive will deliver performance of up to 15,000 IOPS (4K random writes), making this one of the fastest SSDs around. The Vertex Limited Edition features a SATA 3Gbps interface and also offers out-the-box support for Windows 7's TRIM command.
Sounds promising, but OCZ hasn't yet shed any light on the technology powering the drive - stating only that it "makes use of the latest controller technology".
We're trying to get some further details, but here's what we do know; the Vertex Limited Edition will only be available for a brief period of time in 100GB and 200GB capacities, and the latter will fetch around £650 at retail.
