The OCZ Vertex Series of Solid-State Drives (SSDs) has been without a doubt one of the most successful SSDs released by any manufacturer. When we reviewed the original Vertex 120GB drive in April 2009 we found it to be an amazing SSD that was one of the first on the market that had the ability to do garbage collection and TRIM. It was truly a drive that was better than much of the competition and even today it is a solid performing drive thanks to the Indilinx Barefoot controller. OCZ has been busy working on their next generation SSD products, and rather than using last year's Indilinx Barefoot controller they found a new controller series that they liked from an upcoming SSD controller company called SandForce. OCZ has been testing the SandForce SF-1200 and SF-1500 controllers for months internally and during CES they made the formal announcement that OCZ would be bringing out the Vertex 2 series of SSDs using these two new controllers. OCZ has since used the SF-1500 controller on the OCZ Vertex Limited Edition and the SD-1200 controller on the OCZ Vertex 2. The SandForce SF-1200 is said to have nearly the same performance level as the SF-1500 at a fraction of the cost thanks to improved firmware, so we can't wait to benchmark the Vertex 2 SSD and see what it has!