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Finally coming down a bit.. OCZ Vertex 2

interesting bit is that this is supposedly a reconfigured vertex 2... now a sf1200 and .25 chips... i have an older one and it still is fine...
 
Interesting to see the previous king of the mountain 120GB drive come down to $1/GB, but I think we all know that this is not the Vertex 2 that everyone was glowing about a year ago. This is a cheap imposter.

I've had no trouble with my Agility 2, but I wouldn't touch any OCZ drives at this point.
 
DisgruntledVirus said:
I have the Vertex 2 from last year and no issues almost a year later.
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Same, I've been using mine for coming on a year now without a single problem.

An unsettling number of people do have problems with these drives, though, so definitely something to keep in mind if anyone is considering this. $1/GB is a great price if you want to take the risk, though.
 
My 60GB Vertex 2 was flawless for 9 months... Now it's dead, no warning and in a way opposite to everything I've read. I used sleep constantly with it. It died when I did a clean shutdown. There's no red LED which is associated with the panic lock, yet no controller can see the drive at all.
 
^ And that's one thing that concerns me, seems like there are also a lot of reports showing up on NewEgg about drives dying without warning after like 8 months, 9 months, etc. Really hoping mine doesn't end up being one of them. If it does I'll probably just get a Crucial m4 or something. SandForce drives are great when they work, but they have way too many firmware bugs. Even with the 1st gen SandForce controllers that have been out for what, over a year, these don't seem to be completely resolved. And not to say that Intel and Crucial and others don't have the occasional firmware problem, but it seems to far less widespread than with SandForce drives and usually an update (that actually completely fixes the problem, doesn't just fix it for some people or make it less severe) is released pretty quickly.

Just curious, did it die after switching over to a new motherboard or changing something else in your system, or had you been using it in the same system the whole time?
 
The drive died during a business trip during which it saw an unusual amount of clean shutdowns (~4) rather than the usual compliment of several sleep cycles. It had been switched from a d820 into the current e6410 around 5 months ago.

I have another identical drive that is a month older in a system that I expect to be the near perfect usage and will be using the RMA replacement as a raid mirror of it. The system never sleeps, and sees a power reset less than 4 times a year and was only powered off once in the last 3 years for the 5 day hurricane power outage I had.

I'm replacing the laptop drive with an m4.
 
i have had one for about 2 months now and it runs flawlessly. boots windows 7 in about 15 seconds with all task bar apps included. awesome drive.
 
pmanipole said:
i have had one for about 2 months now and it runs flawlessly. boots windows 7 in about 15 seconds with all task bar apps included. awesome drive.
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I never said I wasn't duly impressed by the drives performance. It's an amazing drive for as long as it works and as long as you are prepared for it's immediate and un-notified death. Which may or may not happen to you.
 
M0oG0oGaiPan said:
do you guys install your games on the ssd? Or is it just stuff like OS, web browser, photoshop,etc?
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i usually only put os on them... but the kids stick a game on them if it matters how fast you can open a level... not too much can fit on these 'small' drives...
 
With a chance of sudden failure I can't see putting anything on them that isn't fully backed up. I'm really glad I haven't bought into it yet.
 
Sandforce flakiness is why I decided to get a Kingston V+ 100 for < $1/GB instead. Its awesome garbage collection also makes it suitable for RAID if I decide to go that route.
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do you guys install your games on the ssd? Or is it just stuff like OS, web browser, photoshop,etc?
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I do, yes. Newer games load a lot faster, and older ones load almost instantaneously.
 
alaricljs said:
I never said I wasn't duly impressed by the drives performance. It's an amazing drive for as long as it works and as long as you are prepared for it's immediate and un-notified death. Which may or may not happen to you.
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i think that pretty much covers anything to do with computers. i have several hdd's that are over 5 yrs old that are going strong if not small.
 
pmanipole said:
i think that pretty much covers anything to do with computers. i have several hdd's that are over 5 yrs old that are going strong if not small.
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No it doesn't. I have never had a piece of hardware fail without degradation or an immediately obvious reason (ie: lightning strike, power surge, nasty brown out). Hard drives don't just not turn on 6 hours after they were working perfectly.
 
alaricljs said:
No it doesn't. I have never had a piece of hardware fail without degradation or an immediately obvious reason (ie: lightning strike, power surge, nasty brown out). Hard drives don't just not turn on 6 hours after they were working perfectly.
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do you mean "just do not turn on" because if they turn on then them are most likely working correctly?

what about when you buy a new car and 2 months after you get it you have to bring it in for a blinking idiot light.

what i am try to say is shit happens
 
I wonder what the actual rate of failure is though. I'm more likely to voice my opinion if I have a drive that fails vs a drive that works perfectly fine.

Seeing all the horror stories and the RMA reviews on newegg kept me from pulling the trigger but I'm still interested in moving up to an SSD at some point.
 
pmanipole said:
do you mean "just do not turn on" because if they turn on then them are most likely working correctly?

what about when you buy a new car and 2 months after you get it you have to bring it in for a blinking idiot light.

what i am try to say is shit happens
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Sure... shit happens. But when a device that has indicator lights and they all light up the right way to say 'all is well' then you expect it to function. My SSD has decided otherwise. This behavior is expected to be indicated with a red LED.

When a hard drive that is in active use is approaching failure it will generally be noticeable via SMART... or in some cases rather nasty noises coming from it. I've also never known an HDD to fail from anything aside from mechanics or physics. These SSDs are failing because of programming issues that the manufacturers are aggressively refusing to admit.
 
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