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OCZ Vertex 2: Return or keep?

jmet

jmet

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About a week and a half ago I purchased an OCZ Vertex 2 120GB SSD, the speed was an improvement but I was not blown away by it compared to my short stroked three drive Raid-0 setup that I was on previously nor does it "seem" as fast as my friends 60 Gig OCZ Agility 2 so I started running benchmarks.

Test scores:

New:

Reads: 170's
Writes: 70's

Current:

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Not as bad as some others are seeing especially on writes but this has me wondering if I should trade this drive in for an Intel while I am still within my 30 days.

- AHCI is enabled in bios, confirmed in Windows
- The drive came with the 1.28 firmware
- The drive is 115 gigs in size


Would I see much of an improvement by going to the Intel or should I stick it out with this new 25nm drive?
 
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You've got the 25nm flash. It's slower than advertised.

I was debating, but I just said screw it and I returned it for an Intel.

I'd say get an Intel or Crucial C300.
 
Actually kinda wild. Prior to 25nm you could pick up basically any SF drive and see virtually the same performance assuming firmware IOPS type was the same.
 
Those numbers are between intel value X25-V and mainstream X25-M series. I have both of these. Although X25-M benches about 250MB/s R and 70MB/s W they both feel the same. Which is what others have observed: decent SSDs subjectively feel the same, even if benchmarks say otherwise.
 
Lame that OCZ is screwing customers over by changing the specs on their drives, and not changing the model number. It's effectively false advertising.
 
Numenorean said:
You've got the 25nm flash. It's slower than advertised.

I was debating, but I just said screw it and I returned it for an Intel.

I'd say get an Intel or Crucial C300.
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Did you get yours from Newegg? I did, and it says replacement only, no refund for this drive.
 
I would make it dependent on price. The Intel drives don't have much higher sequential speed anyhow, so if you got it for a reasonably lower price you could live with it.

If it's a wash I'd return it just because those shady business practices shouldn't be supported..
 
jmet said:
About a week and a half ago I purchased an OCZ Vertex 2 120GB SSD, the speed was an improvement but I was not blown away by it compared to my short stroked three drive Raid-0 setup that I was on previously nor does it "seem" as fast as my friends 60 Gig OCZ Agility 2 so I started running benchmarks.

Test scores:

New:

Reads: 170's
Writes: 70's

Current:

Bench.png


Not as bad as some others are seeing especially on writes but this has me wondering if I should trade this drive in for an Intel while I am still within my 30 days.

- AHCI is enabled in bios, confirmed in Windows
- The drive came with the 1.28 firmware
- The drive is 115 gigs in size


Would I see much of an improvement by going to the Intel or should I stick it out with this new 25nm drive?
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I was hoping to come in to see if there are any benchmarks out there for the new 25nm Sandforce SSD, and there it is. And honestly, it is horrible. This is even worst than Intel's X25 160GB G2. The write speed sure took a beating. The advertised speed deviate from the actual speed by a lot though. :\
 
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Anyway, out of curiosity, do anyone think this could be due to the firmware not being optimized for 25nm nand? I suppose the firmware makes quite a fair bit of difference in how SSD perform. 😕
 
Engineer said:
Crappy deal. You paid the same full price for this new drive and now they want you to pay the difference to swap out drives to the older style? Hmmm:colbert:
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It's criminal, and the reason I'll never give them another cent of my money or offer their drives to my customers again.
 
XLNC said:
Did you get yours from Newegg? I did, and it says replacement only, no refund for this drive.
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Limited Replacement Only Return Policy

Products that state "This item is covered by Newegg.com's Replacement Only Return Policy", or items labeled as “Non-refundable” (or similar labeling) must be returned to Newegg within 30 days of the invoice date for this policy to apply. Products covered by this return policy may only be returned for a replacement of the same or equivalent item. “Return” constitutes receipt of the product by Newegg, and not the mere issuance of an RMA.


"replacement of the same or equivalent item" sounds to me like that means I could swap it for a different brand SSD.
 
jmet said:
Limited Replacement Only Return Policy

Products that state "This item is covered by Newegg.com's Replacement Only Return Policy", or items labeled as “Non-refundable” (or similar labeling) must be returned to Newegg within 30 days of the invoice date for this policy to apply. Products covered by this return policy may only be returned for a replacement of the same or equivalent item. “Return” constitutes receipt of the product by Newegg, and not the mere issuance of an RMA.


"replacement of the same or equivalent item" sounds to me like that means I could swap it for a different brand SSD.
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Give it a shot and let me know. I bought one of these for my laptop and its fast.. but sucks that its not at the full potential of what I paid for it. Im not going to pay extra to OCZ to get an older drive that should have been the same damn price. My laptop was a test drive for my desktop and im sure as hell not getting an OCZ for my desktop.
 
AznAnarchy99 said:
Give it a shot and let me know. I bought one of these for my laptop and its fast.. but sucks that its not at the full potential of what I paid for it. Im not going to pay extra to OCZ to get an older drive that should have been the same damn price. My laptop was a test drive for my desktop and im sure as hell not getting an OCZ for my desktop.
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I filled out the RMA form and will mail the drive back on Monday, good thing I left my Raid-O setup intact and just need to change boot orders to be right back where I was.
 
So here is the info on doing a return with Newegg, opened the box? %15 restocking fee... sucks but it is what it is..

Well worth getting rid of this drive and OCZ's shady business practices imo..
 
Out of curiosity could you try the new OCZ firmware? It was mentioned from a mod on their forums that it should be out today.
 
razel said:
Out of curiosity could you try the new OCZ firmware? It was mentioned from a mod on their forums that it should be out today.
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It was mailed back today, I saw the post right after it was dropped off lol.

That said, no release notes as of yet and if they had any plans to improve speed with a firmware update why not tell us one was in the works instead of all of this other nonsense like the "trade up" program for more money.

I am sure I will be more then pleased with the Intel.
 
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