The OCZ Vertex Series of Solid-State Drives (SSDs) has been witho ut 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 i t to be an amazing SSD that was one of the first on the market that had t he ability to do garbage collection and TRIM. It was truly a drive that w as better than much of the competition and even today it is a solid perfo rming drive thanks to the Indilinx Barefoot controller. OCZ has been busy working on their next generation SSD products, and rather than using las t years 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 m onths internally and last month during CES they made the formal announcem ent that OCZ would be bringing out the Vertex 2 series of SSDs using thes e two new controllers…