Now here’s some very interesting news. Last we heard about OCZ’s Vertex 3 Pro swiping the floor of the SSD market with the help of SandForce’s SF-2200 NAND controller. However, that particular Vertex 3 Pro is an enterprise class product, and so OCZ is preparing a more ‘down to earth’ Vertex 3 for the average peasant. But shockingly, the plain ol’ Vertex 3 does the same ridiculous 550MB/sec read speed, with an even faster 525MB/sec write speed, at a somewhat tamer price.

Previews found the Vertex 3′s new SandForce SF-2281 controller and Micron 25nm flash memory chips edged out even its own enterprise-grade cousin in nearly every test — with a few anomalies here and there — and were reportedly too fast to achieve full performance with any SATA 6Gbps controller save the one in Intel’s new Cougar Point chipset. The price of $250 for a 120GB SSD might still be very painful for some, but if you compare this price with current market’s SSD, it seemed fairly decent, as if OCZ is trying to press the price of SSD.

Read the full review at Anandtech