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bmn09 said:
Can anyone give advice about reliability of these drives please?
Reviews on product page seem great, but seen terrible reviews elsewhere.
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I've had the 64GB models running in my machine in RAID0 and then in a server as RAID1 fine for the last few years without any issue.
 
^^^ for some people they have been very reliable. But for others they have been very problematic.

Out of three Vertex 2E's (all 60GB drives) I have none left working as all three went into what is called "panic mode" where both the red and green diode on the rear of the PCB are permanently lit and the drive is then totally unrecoverable.
On my last Vertex 2E, which ran fine for just twelve months, I had an old firmware and after the last two failed I noticed that OCZ brought out a new firmware to hopefully resolve that "panic mode" situation.

So I flashed the drive (mistake ?) and all went well but then over the next day or two Windows would BSOD as the drive would disappear (the OS was on it) and then reappear. It lasted another day and then it too went into "panic mode" and died - did not recover after sleep mode.

Thankfully my supplier changed it over the counter for a Crucial M4.

So for me and my experiences, and having read of so many peoples other experiences (and how many returns my supplier was having of these drives) I decided to look elsewhere for my SSD needs, which have been met by Crucial Samsung.

I would not touch one again and remember that if it fails in such away you cannot securely wipe your data as you can't access it but it can be recovered by OCZ, but they do have a policy to safely wipe that IIRC.
 
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Gibbo said:
Hi there
This is the 2E model, much higher quality components, I've checked our history, 1644 units sold and only 28 units back faulty. Sub 2% failure which is in line with Intel and Samsung.
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LFletcher said:
I've had the 64GB models running in my machine in RAID0 and then in a server as RAID1 fine for the last few years without any issue.
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Vimes said:
Out of three Vertex 2E's (all 60GB drives) I have none left working as all three went into what is called "panic mode" where both the red and green diode on the rear of the PCB are permanently lit and the drive is then totally unrecoverable.
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Thank you for the replies. Guess it should be worth taking a chance, when they are so cheap! Does worry me 'totally unrecoverable', but I am think I'll just put OS etc. on SSD, and keep my old HDD for my data, as the really cheap SSDs are 'only' 120GB.
 
At the price they are they have to be worth a chance but do yourself a favour and strongly consider the latest firmware which was released to resolve the S3 sleep issues (this was released after my last drive failed and thus too late for me).

They are up to version 1.37 now.
 
I paid over £250 for mine and that was a good price at the time. Mine is Still running after 2 years constant use.

At this price it's a bargain and then some.
 
Was just thinking the other day I need to re-install Win7, this will go nicely with that, google search does'nt do OCZ and this drive many favours but for that price its worth the risk and time I upgraded to SSD!
 
d_brennen said:
Awesome price, ideal for laptops where SATAIII would make little real world difference.
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This is why ive just orderd oner for my work laptop, 120gb is huge for what i use it for but the thing is so slow at loading things.;)
 
Why are people meantioning SATA 3 when this drive is only SATA 2?

Even so, ordered one for the laptop :p
 
I've ordered one.

So when I install Windows 7 or Windows 8, what will the differences be compared to my 640GB SATA 2 7200RPM WD drive?

Also anything important I need to do, settings wise in bios or in Windows so the drive is working properly and does not get damaged?

Do I defrag it as normal?
 
Difference is night and day, loading anything will be almost instant.

In BIOS make sure your SATA controller is in AHCI mode.

Don't defrag SSD's they don't need it and it will only reduce the lifespan if done many times.
 
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