Who could be thinking to overclock a drive in order to make it going faster? Well, it seems that OCZ is on track to give it a try, with new SSD Vertex series entitled "Turbo". Those drives would feature the Indilix BareFoot controller associated with MLC memory chips. Then by selecting only the best components the performance levels score high: 278 MB/s and 213 MB/s in reading and writing mode respectively; in other words 10% faster than the "classical" Vertex.
If "overclock" might not be the best term, it seems that OCZ is trying to overclock Indilix BareFoot controller. If the life time of the drive should not be that much impacted by this overclocking, it is important to look at the effect on the power consumption. Indeed, one should not forget that one the primary marketing parameters to advertise SSDs over HD was lower power consumption.
