Will be getting Octane 512 GB as a prize soon

[blastingcap]

Yeah, sell it.

Quite frankly, if someone gave me an OCZ drive for free and said I could never sell it, I'd just use it as a temporary storage drive, or something. Or maybe a paperweight.

Their reputation really is that bad.

I'd use it as my gargantuan Steam drive, so that even if it went down, I knew I could re-download everything anyway. Saved games would be stored on my OS drive.

 

[zCypher]

I had issues with my first OCZ drive, the Vertex2 60GB. I RMA'd it once, and used the replacement for quite a while without issue till it just decided to stop being detected.

However, I have two other Vertex3 120GB and a 240GB Mushkin Chronos Deluxe (I believe it's the same SF2281) and they have all been awesome. There is a distinct performance improvement on these drives compared to the Vertex2 (500+ MB/s vs 280MB/s in my benchmarks confirms the perception).

I have a 256GB Vertex4 on the way which I believe is no longer no SandForce (or SandFarce if that tickles you). I'm not all too afraid of buying OCZ just cause I had one bad drive, in the case of the Vertex2, I knew there were firmware widespread compatibility issues with any SSDs at the time anyway.

The fact of the matter is any drive can fail on you any time, and buying a particular brand absolutely does not negate the necessity of having your important data backed up, and your backups backed up. If you're not doing this, your data must not be that important.

I personally have found a very negligible difference in performance among the newer generation of drives. Therefore I would not recommend changing your Octane for another drive solely based on performance. I'm sure it will destroy any non-SSD hard drive as an OS drive.

Also, what is your usage scenario? My understanding is the XS guys are basically hammering the drives non stop, a sort of torture test for endurance. Which I think is totally awesome, however it's not necessarily relevant if you're afraid of "a drive dying younger" if you're a regular user. A normal user will probably never come close to wearing out the NAND flash, ever, even on one of the drives XS finds to die younger.

The top concern sure should be reliability, I think everyone is agreeing on that point, but what's going to dictate this reliability? Probably the firmware will be the #1 thing.

I personally would be ok with this Octane drive, it's worth trying out in my opinion. You yourself have had issues with the M4, one of the drives touted here as the best most reliable options next to Intel and Samsung. Kind drives home the point that you can have issues with any of them, SSD technology is still in its infancy when compared to mechanical hard drives.

hope all goes well with yours, and whatever you decide to do I'm sure you will be pleased with its performance!

 

[Revolution 11]

OP, drop that drive like a hot potato and sell it immediately. There is one main reason for this. Forget the reliability problems, the half-baked firmware prematurely released, etc, etc, etc. OCZ is delaying their quarterly earnings report because of possible illegal customer rebates. OCZ is facing possible SEC penalties and eventual bankruptcy. That is not a good situation especially for a company already losing money.

Your drive may not have support in a year. I would never buy a product where you know the company may go under soon. Sell that drive for the best price you can get, don't use it, and use that money for a SSD whose maker will survive.

Check this for details on OCZ troubles.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2275812

 

[iamgenius]

Anyone want a 512 GB OCZ ssd drive? I will sell it with 10% discount of newegg price 🙂

 

[Eug]

OCZ lost something like 40% of its market capitalization yesterday. The investors fled in droves.

The fact of the matter is any drive can fail on you any time, and buying a particular brand absolutely does not negate the necessity of having your important data backed up, and your backups backed up. If you're not doing this, your data must not be that important.

Any drive can fail, but ideally you still want one that's more reliable, regardless of your backups. Failing drives are a big PITA.

 

[Revolution 11]

Additionally, a drive can fail anytime and you want one that's more reliable but more importantly, you want to buy drives from a vendor that is not going out of business. Even if your drive bricks or self-destructs, it is nice to know that the manufacturer is still there, offering updated firmware, corrected mechanical problems, RMA support, and new products.

Until it is clear that OCZ will survive the next two years (in a financial sense, not marketshare), their drives are suspect.

 

[tweakboy]

Were all praying for you that the OCZ SSD pownz and the controller doesn't get botched and it lives many years. good win.. good SSD , just have a backup always on external,,, of windows image or just all your files and what not. I don't trust this new controller although I heard its pretty good and doesn't give problems. gl