Toshiba OCZ RC100 SSD Review: Tiny, Affordable NVMe Storage

Name: OCZ RC100
Brand: OCZ

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, June 12, 2018, 09:15 AM EDT

Performance Summary: The Toshiba OCZ RC100’s performance was a bit of a mixed bag in our tests. Its sequential transfers trailed the other, higher-priced NVMe-based drives across the board – which was to be expected, considering the value-oriented nature of the drive. Access time during writes were also somewhat higher, though reads were more competitive. In the trace-based tests and in terms of 4K transfers, however, the OCZ RC100 remains competitive and responsive. And it’s these tests that are most impactful to the user experience.

Toshiba OCZ RC100 Solid State Drives - Find Them At Amazon

The Toshiba OCZ RC100 family of drives should be available immediately from all of the usual suspects, like Amazon, NewEgg, etc. Suggested pricing the drives is as follows:

At those prices, the 120GB drives works out to be about $0.46 per gigabyte. The higher capacity drives, however, are a much more aggressive $0.32 – $0.33 cents per gigabyte. And, as is typically the case with mainstream OCZ-branded drives, we expect street prices to creep lower as shipments ramp up. At those prices, the OCZ RC100 is one of the most affordable NVMe-based solid drives on the market, and cost less than some SATA-based SSDs.

Considering their good random 4K performance, lower-power, and aggressive pricing, we suspect the Toshiba OCZ RC100 will be popular with folks on a budget that want the benefits NVMe has to offer. Of course, there are higher performing drives on the market for slightly higher prices, but when every dollar counts, the OCZ RC100 is worth a look.


Competitive 4K QD1 Performance Relatively Low Cost Low Power Tiny Form Factor	Sequentials Low Compared To Mid-Range NVMe SSDs Relatively High Write Latency

Tags: SSD, OCZ, Storage, Toshiba, nvme, rc100

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com