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> They built drives with extreme speeds while entirely sacrificing longevity and reliability. You don't say. One example being the OCZ RevoDrives. Our company
by josteink 13y ago
> They built drives with extreme speeds while entirely sacrificing longevity and reliability.
You don't say. One example being the OCZ RevoDrives.
Our company investigated replacing our traditional HDDs with SSDs and with RevoDrives to see how that impacted our build-times and development efficiency.
Almost every second user who received a RevoDrive experienced critical data-failures and 100% data-loss.
What they didn't say on the package WITH CAPITAL LETTERS was that it was a RAID0/JBOD of SSDs with zero redundancy. If one drive failed (and they did) you lost all your data with no means of recovery.
We could have asked for replacement units because they were still under warranty (some as new as 2 months), but needless to say, we weren't very eager on more drives from OCZ.
If the rest of their product line-up was like this, I can't say I'm too surprised about them not making it for the long run.
- alanctgardner2 13y ago> What they didn't say on the package WITH CAPITAL LETTERS was that it was a RAID0/JBOD of SSDs with zero redundancy This really shouldn't matter to the consumer - there are lots of ways to couple components in a black box to increase the rate of failure. They don't disclose to you how the controller is built, or how they go about marking bad blocks, so why would they say in bold letters that under the covers they're striping across two disks?