Are OCZ SSD's reliable yet?

pgi947 · 10 Aug 2011 at 18:32

As the title says, how are the newer OCZ SSD's fairing up these days? I recall seeing allot of posts about drives failing then having to deal with RMA etc..

I was looking at getting the OCZ Solid 3 60GB...

Any opinions/advise welcome

Atom · 10 Aug 2011 at 19:14

Still reports on OCZ forum of BSOD..

pgi947 · 10 Aug 2011 at 19:24

Is/are the problems widespread? £85 for those read write speeds is whats tempting me, the nearest priced/sized corsair/crucial/other drive is half what the solid 3 offers.

I suppose the read speeds are whats the most important to me, the SSD will be getting used as an OS only partition.

I'm really at a loss of what to get :confused:

HardwareGeek · 10 Aug 2011 at 19:57

Just wondering why your looking at the solid vs. the agility

They seem to be the same price (solid was actually more awhile back) but the agility is better spec

Phil2008 · 10 Aug 2011 at 20:11

Its just hit and miss I think, as Ive had the 90GB OCZ Vertex 2E 3.5" SSD since november, and havent had any probs.

pgi947 · 10 Aug 2011 at 20:44

HardwareGeek said:
Just wondering why your looking at the solid vs. the agility

They seem to be the same price (solid was actually more awhile back) but the agility is better spec

My bad I somehow completely overlooked the agility 3.

I've had a look (I will dig deeper later) at SSD failure rates and specifically OCZ failure rates, some stating 2.9% of all failed, some suggesting its as high as 1/5 for OCZ drives, but the majority of failures I'm now reading about are to do with the Vertex 2 drives? They were seemingly released with beta firmware that pretty much just crashed and burned. So perhaps the agility 3 may be more finely tuned?

Either way that 120gb agility 3 is looking very tempting at £152.

Edit: some more solid figuires show the OCZ SSD's have a failure rate of 2.93% in the first year (intels is 0.59%), Sammy 1TB F3's fail at a rate of 1.57% per year, and WD Caviar Black 2TB are failing at a whopping 9.71% per year!

Based on that I should statistically be fine with an OCZ drive...

Atom · 10 Aug 2011 at 22:24

I have a Vertex 2e, rock solid for over a year. Returned my Agility 3 after 3 days.

panyan · 10 Aug 2011 at 22:34

Atom said:
Still reports on OCZ forum of BSOD..

the OCZ forum are mainly technical aid forums so they would all be damning

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 10 Aug 2011 at 22:41

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18305345

Many of the cheaper Corsair and OCZ drives use asynchronous flash which is not as fast in actual usage.

I would go for one of the Crucial M4 drives TBH and these synchronous flash AFAIK.

The OCZ Vertex 3 have had firmware issues and the very similar Corsair Force 3 was recalled. There is also the issue with DuraClass too.

Pilgrim57 · 11 Aug 2011 at 10:17

As you have a Z58 mobo you are in the target group for problems along with P67.
Latest firmware 2.11 has resolved problems for some. Might get next end of Sept.
If you do buy then read the setup guide & follow to the letter.
See this last post 576:
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/f...scuss-it-here.&p=664631&viewfull=1#post664631

pgi947 · 11 Aug 2011 at 17:52

Wow thats allot of work just to get an SSD stable (removing cmos battery means removing GPU's and many other things), I think I'll give OCZ a miss this time round, going to get an M4 ordered tomorrow, then hold out until OCZ have sorted things out once and for all, and maybe pick one up then, dropping the M4 to SRT duties.

Thanks for everything everyone