The OCZ Vertex LE 100GB performed in much the same way after we ran the full disk benchmark, as it does support the TRIM function and it appears to work well. As expected, the OCZ Vertex LE performs very much like the Vertex 2 Pro, producing an average transfer speed of 82.8MB/s when duplicating a single 6GB ISO file. This made the Vertex LE roughly 6.5% faster than the Intel X25-M G2, which averaged 5MB/s less and took 5 more seconds to complete the task. The Vertex LE was also around 71% faster than a traditional hard drive (Samsung Spinpoint F1). We were surprised to see the OCZ Vertex LE was considerably slower than the Vertex 2 Pro when running our program copy test. The limited edition drive was only able to match the performance of the original Vertex, making it 5% slower than the Intel X25-M G2 and 15% slower than the OCZ Vertex 2 Pro. While these are disappointing results, they hardly make the OCZ Vertex LE slow. Once again OCZ’s Vertex LE was found to be slower than the Vertex 2 Pro, this time by a 12% performance margin. This also meant it was 14% slower than the Intel X25-M G2, while defeating the original Vertex by a 5% margin.
