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The OCZ drives are fantastic. I'm running a Vertex 3 right now, which rates at about 60,000 IOPS. It was a replacement for a short lived Crucial. This is enti

by rit 14y ago

The OCZ drives are fantastic. I'm running a Vertex 3 right now, which rates at about 60,000 IOPS. It was a replacement for a short lived Crucial. This is entirely anecdotal, and by no means a smear against Crucial I put a Crucial into my laptop the day before departing on a 3 month business trip to Europe last year. By the time I got to London, the drive had failed utterly and completely. Thankfully, I had stuffed my previous drive into my bag with me and was able to recover. I replaced it with the OCZ ( It amuses me that my time in London has made me hear that in my head as "Oh Cee Zed" ... I believe they have an even better Vertex 4 now ) and it has been a rock solid workhorse. I've since hauled that laptop + drive over about 120k miles and 15 countries without so much as a blip. Again, anecdotal but I adore this drive.

Limes102 14y ago
+1 for OCZ. I went through three Kingston drives in a year. This OCZ is over a year old now and still going strong
yskchu 14y ago
My experience with OCZ is not as nice; their Vertex 2 has a bug where if you sleep the machine too many times, you may get data loss. Total data loss. Heaps of people on the OCZ forums having the same issue. Luckily had weekly backups, so only lost one week's worth of data, but still. This kinda soured me against trying any new OCZ... Now I have an Intel SSD; pricier, but well worth it.
- Kliment 14y ago
  Same experience, with two separate OCZ drives. Total irrecoverable data loss. Yay backups. I switched to Intel too in the end.
  - jasomill 14y ago
    And, having had a similar problem with Intel, I switched to Samsung. So it goes.
    - meaty 14y ago
      I grabbed one OCZ and one Samsung. Fingers crossed. Managed to persuade company to pay for it as well as I'm being a guinea pig user :)
meaty 14y ago
Thanks for your reply. Based on this and a quick google review session, I just ordered a 128Gb OCZ vertex 4 from scan.co.uk for surprisingly little money! if it blows up, they're pretty good on warranties and I've got two laptops and rsync jobs set up so no big deal. Just to add I modified the order to include an additional Samsung 830 128Gb as a backup which will go in my spare laptop. I was rather expecting things to be more expensive!

by rit 14y ago

Limes102 14y ago

+1 for OCZ. I went through three Kingston drives in a year. This OCZ is over a year old now and still going strong

yskchu 14y ago

My experience with OCZ is not as nice; their Vertex 2 has a bug where if you sleep the machine too many times, you may get data loss. Total data loss. Heaps of people on the OCZ forums having the same issue. Luckily had weekly backups, so only lost one week's worth of data, but still. This kinda soured me against trying any new OCZ... Now I have an Intel SSD; pricier, but well worth it.

Kliment 14y ago
Same experience, with two separate OCZ drives. Total irrecoverable data loss. Yay backups. I switched to Intel too in the end.
- jasomill 14y ago
  And, having had a similar problem with Intel, I switched to Samsung. So it goes.
  - meaty 14y ago
    I grabbed one OCZ and one Samsung. Fingers crossed. Managed to persuade company to pay for it as well as I'm being a guinea pig user :)

meaty 14y ago

Thanks for your reply. Based on this and a quick google review session, I just ordered a 128Gb OCZ vertex 4 from scan.co.uk for surprisingly little money! if it blows up, they're pretty good on warranties and I've got two laptops and rsync jobs set up so no big deal. Just to add I modified the order to include an additional Samsung 830 128Gb as a backup which will go in my spare laptop. I was rather expecting things to be more expensive!