OCZ AGT3-25SAT3-120G

Agility 3 120GB

▲ Agility 3 120GB
BENCHMARKS (20,694)
MKT (0.1%)
BUILDS
(2)
$102

▲ 53407 ▼

Superseded by the AGILITY4 128GB »

Controller: LSI SandForce SF2281VB1-SDC. Memory: Micron Asynchronous 25nm MLC. Release date: Q2 2011.

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Effective Speed -73%Effective Speed -73%Average User Bench -98%Read -171%, Write -173%, 4K Read -36%, 4K Write -28%, Mixed -100%, 4K Mixed -45%, SusWrite -131%Peak Lab Bench -94%Read -161%, Write -158%, 4K Read -28%, 4K Write -14%, Mixed -107%, 4K Mixed -37%, SusWrite -155%Value & Sentiment -45%User Rating -21%, Market Share -114%, Price 20%, Value -66%Nice To Haves -85%DQ Read -70%, DQ Write -107%, DQ Mixed -54%, ADQ Read -116%, ADQ Write -118%, ADQ Mixed -98%, Age -43%, AS-SSD Total -71%

Average Bench: 47.7% (835^th of 1011)

Based on 20,694 user benchmarks. Models: OCZ-AGILITY3, OCZ-AGIL ITY3, OCZ-AGIL OCZ-AGILITY3

Poor: 32%Average: 47.7% Great: 61%

Popular builds with this SSD

Below average average bench

The OCZ Agility 3 120GB averaged 52.2% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. 4K-64Thread Mixed IO Speed 89.8MB/s

Avg. 4K Random Write Speed 67.6MB/s

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Good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the OCZ Agility 3 120GB is 28.6%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the OCZ Agility 3 120GB performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Sustained Write Speed 91.1MB/s

Avg. Sequential Write Speed 116MB/s

Average Bench

(Based on 20,694 samples)

Rank 83547.7%

Min	Avg	Max
109	Read 149	181
88.6	Write 116	143
101	Mixed 130	152
67.6	SusWrite 91.1	113
27.3% 122 MB/s

Min	Avg	Max
13	4K Read 21.8	28.3
26.8	4K Write 67.6	105
14.7	4K Mixed 25.6	33.3
102% 38.3 MB/s

Min	Avg	Max
23.1	DQ Read 121	183
65.2	DQ Write 110	141
24.7	DQ Mixed 89.8	140
74.4% 107 MB/s

User Benchmarks

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Deep queue 4k

The fastest SSD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%

NOR-User, 2 hrs ago.

54GB free

Firmware: 2.25

SusWrite @10s intervals: 104 99 100 99 100 98 MB/s

59% Above average

Write 116

Mixed 124

SusWrite 99.9

29% 129 MB/s

4K Read 28.2

4K Write 93.8

4K Mixed 32.2

134% 51.4 MB/s

DQ Read 136

DQ Write 104

DQ Mixed 90.8

76% 110 MB/s

NOR-User, 5 hrs ago.

18GB free

Firmware: 2.22

SusWrite @10s intervals: 87 77 86 87 88 93 MB/s

52% Above average

Write 104

Mixed 138

SusWrite 86.3

27% 119 MB/s

4K Read 22.7

4K Write 90.1

4K Mixed 25.7

115% 46.2 MB/s

DQ Read 173

DQ Write 105

DQ Mixed 116

93% 131 MB/s

DNK-User, 3 hrs ago.

28GB free (System drive)

Firmware: 2.15

SusWrite @10s intervals: 80 86 87 83 87 84 MB/s

51.6% Above average

Write 111

Mixed 124

SusWrite 84.5

26% 117 MB/s

4K Read 24.3

4K Write 71.7

4K Mixed 30.4

114% 42.1 MB/s

DQ Read 142

DQ Write 105

DQ Mixed 104

83% 117 MB/s

GBR-User, 2 hrs ago.

50GB free

Firmware: 2.50

SusWrite @10s intervals: 94 89 90 89 90 88 MB/s

48.3% Average

Write 110

Mixed 130

SusWrite 89.8

28% 123 MB/s

4K Read 19.4

4K Write 61.6

4K Mixed 29.5

100% 36.8 MB/s

DQ Read 132

DQ Write 103

DQ Mixed 103

81% 113 MB/s

GRC-User, 4 hrs ago.

58GB free

Firmware: 2.11

SusWrite @10s intervals: 95 90 98 97 97 97 MB/s

46.9% Average

Write 112

Mixed 129

SusWrite 95.7

28% 126 MB/s

4K Read 22.2

4K Write 48.9

4K Mixed 26.3

93% 32.5 MB/s

DQ Read 129

DQ Write 119

DQ Mixed 116

89% 121 MB/s

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Typical Agility 3 120GB Builds (Compare 14,703 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings.

Gaming 47%

Yacht

Desktop 56%

Gunboat

Workstation 31%

Sail boat

Motherboard: Asus P8Z77-V LX

CPU
Core i5-3570KIntel $195Bench 68%, 124,173 samples	4,517x
Core i7-3770KIntel $138Bench 68%, 90,502 samples	2,323x
Core i7-3770Intel $198Bench 64%, 143,535 samples	2,280x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $399Bench 50%, 467,312 samples	1,311x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $285Bench 56%, 700,687 samples	1,310x
GTX 1070Nvidia $390Bench 78%, 706,612 samples	847x

SSD
Agility 3 120GBOCZ $102Bench 48%, 20,694 samples	1x

RAM
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 53,065 samples	813x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 49%, 49,203 samples	603x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 15,047 samples	407x

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Value: 38% - Below average

Total price: $696

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Controller: LSI SandForce SF2281VB1-SDC. Memory: Micron Asynchronous 25nm MLC

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Trash peformance. This is my OS disk. It is very slow for a SSD.

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-9400F $148	Nvidia GTX 1660 $210	Crucial MX500 250GB $45
Intel Core i5-9600K $210	Nvidia GTX 1660S (Super) $234	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $150
Intel Core i7-9700K $349	Nvidia GTX 1660-Ti $260	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $49

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $44	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $65	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $88
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $40	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $612	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $48
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $75	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $68	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $14

OCZ AGT3-25SAT3-120G

Agility 3 120GB

Average Bench: 47.7% (835^th of 1011)

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Motherboard: Asus P8Z77-V LX

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Agility 3 120GB

Average Bench: 47.7% (835th of 1011)

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