Have two unresponsive SSDs in 12 hours.

[Demon-Xanth]

I managed to get both an OCZ Agility and a Vertex Plus to go from happy and perfectly fine to bricks in 12 hours in two different systems. I think my being a fan of them just got thrown out the window. FML.

 

[groberts101]

what a friggin' PITA that must be.

I do know for fact that you can special request the destructive flash tool for the Agy and bring it back without an RMA. The V-Plus is probably RMA only though.

Run the idnetity tool from the OCZ forum and post the exe number over there and request the d-flash tool to easily recover the Agy. Good luck with it all.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

The V+ is based off the Martini, which is a slightly updated Barefoot. Both Indilix. So maybe both.

 

[Coup27]

Somehow I knew these would be OCZ drives before even opening the thread.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

groberts was right, the flash did fix the agility, though all my carefully arranged bits got set back to empty. Still waiting for the RMA number for the V+. Annoyingly, I called up because I knew their online system was slow. Was told to use the online to get a ticket, and my ticket has been waiting for that same guy that I talked to to get processed for two business days now. Can't say I'm a fan of the company anymore.

 

[IAteYourMother]

the V+ just had new firmware released

 

[Demon-Xanth]

the V+ just had new firmware released

I know, doesn't help me when I can't flash the drive though. They won't make a destructive flash available through the support forums. I asked. In the mean time, I keep waiting for a number so I can do something useful towards getting this brick of flash memory back to being something useful.

 

[Anonemous]

I managed to RMA a Vertex plus back and got a refund issued by emailing them an invoice of my original order. Hopefully the refund will be here this week.

 

[RU482]

any chance your power supply fluctuates or sees spikes? (not that it's likely you'd know without an o-scope)

I've seen SSDs (yeah, OCZ) appear to be dead after power fluctuations. Let the computer sit unpowered for a while, power it back up, and the drive works fine again (seemingly)

 

[Demon-Xanth]

any chance your power supply fluctuates or sees spikes? (not that it's likely you'd know without an o-scope)

I've seen SSDs (yeah, OCZ) appear to be dead after power fluctuations. Let the computer sit unpowered for a while, power it back up, and the drive works fine again (seemingly)

Tried that, the drive's off to OCZ now.

 

[nanaki333]

fortunately ocz has a really quick rma turnaround.

 

[M0RPH]

So just like that you lost all your data? At least with hard drives you usually see it coming and have time to copy your data.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

So just like that you lost all your data? At least with hard drives you usually see it coming and have time to copy your data.

Yup. Only option would've been to send it to a place that would've charged me about $450 or so to recover it. With SSDs being the way they are, it does boggle me that the manufacturer can't do that easily. Especially given the fault is a case of "the controller borked and just needs to be reflashed".

 

[Eug]

Somehow I knew these would be OCZ drives before even opening the thread.

Took the words right out my keyboard.

 

[Pray To Jesus]

good thing i got Intel for reliability mirite

 

[OlafSicky]

You have only yourself to blame for buying OCZ. They are the worst company in the computer industry .

 

[Demon-Xanth]

You have only yourself to blame for buying OCZ. They are the worst company in the computer industry .

Thanks for the helpful input. Let me go back and start using PCChips stuff and ignoring the fact that I read a lot of good reviews before buying my first SSD. I'll swap these out for some Kingston Jmicron 601 drives right away!

 

[kmmatney]

For the record, I've had good luck with the 2 OCZ drives I've purchased. I've also had good luck with the 5 Intel and 1 Samsung SSDs I've also bought for home and work. Even the cheap Microcenter (Adata) SSD I bought has been working great. If I had to buy a drive right now, though, it would probably be a Crucial M4.