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Vertex 3: Second-Generation SandForce For The Masses  This is a
performance preview based on a pre-production piece of hardware.
We should see drives pop up in retail sometime in mid-March.
Until then, all beta samples, including the one in our SoCal
lab, employ Micron’s 25 nm 8 GB (64 Gb, 2-bits per cell) ONFi 2
(synchronous) MLC NAND in an eight-channel configuration. Final
production units will use NAND from Intel, but since both come
from IMFT, there shouldn’t be any difference between them. With
that said, the firmware isn't final and OCZ is still
experimenting with performance, hence the sequential write speed
increase seen after last week's Vertex 3 Pro coverage.  When it
comes to capacity, our 240 GB drive turns out to be 224 GiB in
Windows. For those curious, let’s run through the math. We have
16 NAND devices. Each device has two 8 GB MLC dies, which comes
out to a total of 256 GB. This means that 16 GB is reserved for
data parity (8 GB fo