OCZ Vertex 2E Bigfoot 480GB 3.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive - (OCZSSD3-2VTX480G)

dneill2006 · 14 Jul 2013 at 20:10

Anyone use this SSD?

Thinking of getting one to be used as a steam drive but worried about all the stories I've read on OCZ drives having a high failure rate.

£149.99 for a 480GB SSD seems very good value.

Sasahara · 14 Jul 2013 at 22:57

Should be fine, my 120 2E has been running 24 for 3 years. over 2.5 of that as the main boot drive.

The major issue with these was fixed with firmware years ago.

ubersonic · 14 Jul 2013 at 23:13

I got one when they first came in a month or so back, great drive

Btw I noticed you said "steam drive", if it helps Steam actually gained the ability to install a game onto whatever drive you want some time ago, you just have to set it up.

dneill2006 · 14 Jul 2013 at 23:16

ubersonic said:
I got one when they first came in a month or so back, great drive

Btw I noticed you said "steam drive", if it helps Steam actually gained the ability to install a game onto whatever drive you want some time ago, you just have to set it up.

Thanks, just about to order it

Yeah I know Steam can let you choose where to install most games now, but I like to keep them all on the same drive (OCD lol).

drakioned · 14 Jul 2013 at 23:31

just to let you know... these have an incompatibility problem with Z87, I was sceptical when I first heard about it, I thought it would just work slower or something, but it really does cause a problem

This is on a Gigabyte Z87-D3HP board on a machine I was building today to replace my 2500K... now I need to find another solution for a Steam drive

dneill2006 · 14 Jul 2013 at 23:33

drakioned said:
just to let you know... these have an incompatibility problem with Z87, I was sceptical when I first heard about it, I thought it would just work slower or something, but it really does cause a problem

This is on a Gigabyte Z87-D3HP board on a machine I was building today to replace my 2500K... now I need to find another solution for a Steam drive

I have a Gigabyte Z77X-D3H so hopefully it will work OK for me.

drakioned · 15 Jul 2013 at 08:41

Yeah, I think that should be fine.

Do bear in mind that you probably can't keep this through to your next system though.

HardOCP reports that the Z87 problem is because these Sandforce drives aren't fully compliant with SATA spec, and Z87 enforces the spec more strongly than previous chipsets, and it'd be reasonable to expect that any subsequent chipset would also do the same.

I actually have 3 of these which I need to find some use for now.

ubersonic · 15 Jul 2013 at 10:27

drakioned said:
Yeah, I think that should be fine.

Do bear in mind that you probably can't keep this through to your next system though.

HardOCP reports that the Z87 problem is because these Sandforce drives aren't fully compliant with SATA spec, and Z87 enforces the spec more strongly than previous chipsets, and it'd be reasonable to expect that any subsequent chipset would also do the same.

I actually have 3 of these which I need to find some use for now.

Hopefully the problem will be ironed out on newer boards, maybe it will even be solved for Z87 via a BIOS update/revision.

*EDIT*

ASUS already have a Z87 workaround BIOS that fixes the issue.

BluD · 16 Jul 2013 at 06:49

Great little drive, i ordered one when OCuK got a load in cheap, using as my steam drive also. I wish i had more cash atm and i would order another.