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I'm not sure it's so bad. I bought my OCZ Vertex 3 Max IOPS 2.5 years ago, it's been great and I'm still happy with it. They also have had many good reviews.
by jkbyc 13y ago
I'm not sure it's so bad. I bought my OCZ Vertex 3 Max IOPS 2.5 years ago, it's been great and I'm still happy with it. They also have had many good reviews.
- uptown 13y agoSame here. Swapped out the stock drive in my MPB with a Vertex 3 in April 2011, and its been rock solid ever since with everyday-use.
- srdev 13y agoI'll provide a dissenting data point. After going through 5 RMA's with Vertex 2 drives, I finally convinced them to just upgrade me to a Vertex 3, due to reports of better reliability. The Vertex 3 failed within a week. Considered the drive a lost cause, swapped in a Crucial M4 -- been rock solid ever since.
- nickff 13y agoI had a similar experience with the Vertex 2, and switched to Intel 320 and subsequently Samsung 840 Pro. Intel and Samsung drives have done a great job, while I had 3 Vertex 2 failures.
- bryne 13y agoEveryone on HN is glad you're happy, but your single data point does fly in the face of statistically significant reliability problems with OCZ drives (ie, the only real way to evaluate storage manufacturers).
- scott_karana 13y agoDo you have actual statistics? I'd truly like to see them. Most of the reliability problems I've seen have been self-reported, so I'm not sure what biases are present in what I've seen. ;) (I agree that many of their practices were bad, which likely lent to bad drives! This isn't trolling, just genuine curiosity if there were published stats)
- Mithaldu 13y agoEnjoy: http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=2&hl=it&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http://www.hardware.fr/articles/862-7/ssd.html&usg=ALkJrhjYW5hePOLf3fELOQmp2PsCCvVSRg http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=2&h... http://www.hardware.fr/articles/911-7/ssd.html http://www.hardware.fr/articles/911-7/ssd.html
- Steko 13y agoAnd from 2012: http://www.behardware.com/articles/862-6/components-returns-rates-6.html http://www.behardware.com/articles/862-6/components-returns-... - Crucial 0.82% (as against 0.8%) - Intel 1.73% (as against 0.1%) - Corsair 2.93% (as against 2.9%) - OCZ 7.03% (as against 4.2%) Crucial has taken top spot from Intel thanks to a notable increase in Intel’s returns rate. We should say that this time, the Intel sample is only just above the minimum required and that some of the Intel returns are linked to the 8MB bug which has since been resolved. The OCZ rate has got a lot worse, going up to 7%, and only OCZ has models with rates of above 5%: - 15.58% OCZ Vertex 2 Series SSD 240 GB - 13.28% OCZ Vertex 2 Series SSD 160 GB - 11.76% OCZ Vertex 2 Series SSD 80 GB - 9.52% OCZ Vertex 2 Series SSD 120 GB - 8.57% OCZ Vertex 3 Series 120 GB - 7.49% OCZ Vertex 2 Series SSD 60 GB - 6.61% OCZ Vertex 2 Series 3.5" SSD 120 GB - 6.37% OCZ Vertex 3 Series 240 GB - 6.37% OCZ Agility 3 60 GB - 5.89% OCZ Vertex 2 Series SSD 100 GB The Vertex 2s have the worst scores but the Vertex 3s have nothing to be proud of either. Note that over the coming period, the Vertex 3s are doing much better thanks to developments in the firmware, with a rate of just 1.01% for the Vertex 3 120 GB as things stand.
- mrb 13y agoWow thanks for the data! In 10 years of interest in acquiring data in hardware return stats, this is the first time I come across such a source. "The first question is of course where the stats come from. They’re taken from a large French etailer, whose database we have had direct access to. We were therefore able to extract the stats we wanted directly from source."
- aray 13y agoThe plural of anecdote is not data. (Just a note to keep in mind when seeing all these personal testimonies)
- acchow 13y ago> "The plural of anecdote is not data" -unknown source. FTFY. I read this about a year ago and have been unable to find the source. Does anyone know where this is from?
- mgkimsal 13y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6812217 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6812217
- dpark 13y agoIn an era of high-quality search, you could plug this into the search engine of your choice and get a better answer than you're likely to find on the HN comments. e.g. http://askville.amazon.com/original-source-quote-plural-anecdote-data/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=1415780 http://askville.amazon.com/original-source-quote-plural-anec... http://freakonomics.com/2010/04/29/quotes-uncovered-whats-the-plural-of-anecdote/ http://freakonomics.com/2010/04/29/quotes-uncovered-whats-th...
- uptown 13y agoOh good! I'd posted specifically to ensure just you were happy, but it warms my heart to know that the entirety of HN is officially glad that I'm happy too!
- gcb1 13y agoplease, unless you compared their offering with other ssds or used their support forums, this comment is as empty as it can be. ssds are better than spinning media, so what? even the worst one would make you happy. this is not the point. they constantly send one device to reviewers and then put lesser specs on the shelfs, or less immorally, just updated the revision silently to cut costs. i have a couple of them. i regret buying because what i got was something equivalent to something i could have gotten cheaper. also, admins often mocked people on the support forums.
- fletchowns 13y agoNo, it is so bad. OCZ was a terrible company and nobody is going to miss them.
- onedev 13y agoEither explain why or save your breath :|
- parasubvert 13y agoMy Vertex 4s are doing well after 18 months and my crucial m4s died within 6 (power system failures). I'll miss ocz.
- Mithaldu 13y agoCrucial is only marginally better than OCZ in terms of reliability. You got lucky. If you care about drives surviving, buy Intel or Samsung: http://www.hardware.fr/articles/911-7/ssd.html http://www.hardware.fr/articles/911-7/ssd.html
- whitewhim 13y agoI've had to have them replace my OCZ Vertex 2 three times.
- yeukhon 13y agoI was lucky I got RMA and got a replacement. I sold the replacement on ebay once I got it and ever since I couldn't trust another SSD myself. Though I am still very happy with the SSD that comes with my Macbook Pro 15"
- AdamTReineke 13y agoOne of my Vertex2's died and I need to send it in on warranty (if it isn't too late). The other one is doing fine for now.
- scotty79 13y agoBoth of my OCZ Vertex 2 died on me. I was able to bring one back from the dead with firmware upgrade and repartitioning and reformatting. Second one serves as interesting although bit thick coaster. Couldn't return them to manufacturer because they were not bought from one of their listed retailers. I couldn't return them to the shop either because they worked few years before any trouble happened.