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Checked this out just before I bought 2 30gb drive, glad I did
I think i'll leave it for a bit and see what else comes on the market.
I think i'll leave it for a bit and see what else comes on the market.
I don't think that many people will recommend that you buy a decent RAID card that is going to cost more then the drive cost itself.2. Will a hardware controller card (with some decent cache) fix the problem? If so will it be at the expense of the speed of my 16x graphics card?
We offered him a refund based on his attitude to the help we offered, I did not say his attitude was bad, i said it was obvious to me what we were offering was not helping. I have to judge each case as they come along...George was furious about the product he had bought...we tried to offer some help which he clearly explained was not doing the trick for him so i moved to get him happy.
I can only help customers so far...if its not working why should i prolong the agony for the customer? i see no point.
I don't want to mess people around here..the UK is bad enough for customer service already..hence i moved to get George happy and put the funds in his hands to buy another drive.
I hope this clears up this situation...George was offered a refund based on his situation. I am still confident however that with some simple OS tweaks I could have had his SSD working fine...
Regarding sustained read and write speeds, there will be very little difference, in my experience.Dee: Would the performance be noticeably better with a 1X Raid card?
It seems too, it hides the problem of random writes because, instead of the IDE bus becoming saturated, which grinds the system to a halt, the cache que's the data instead and keeps the IDE bus clear. But even with more than 128MB of cache, it will become full at some point. So, you also have to do at least some of tweaks mentioned and discussed on OCZ's support forum and allow the RAID cards cache to flush when the drive is not busy doing anything else.Hi I am a bit out of date with the SSD scene. Do those "random write" problems that I think anandtech highlighted a while back go away with a good raid controller then?
OK I give up I will dump the SSD and copy it to a normal HD when I get home, I would still appreciate knowing if this will work but whatever...
However to suggest that I should expect problems because this is new kit is just ridiculous. My wife has had an EEEPC with a 4gb SSD for well over a year with no problems, the discs are sold as being a standard har drive with no caveat that they do not work out of the box without substantial teaking of the OS and will vary widely from hardware setup to hardware setup, AND I specificaly phoned to try to check before purchase.
I have built my own work machines for the last 12 years and have NEVER had an issue like this, yes I should not expect product support on the same level but seeing as I am here posting for help on the OCZ and this forum it is pretty obvious that I wasnt expecting it.
So ijn summary, the drive does not work out of the box with most Wimdows OSs.... and in my opinion that information should be provided up front...
I hope that OCZ and Overclockers will consider it...
We are working on solutions for 64bit OS's, at this time we have a good solution for 32bit OS's and a ton of tweaks that actually do work if you spend time applying them.
Anyone who says that they think its unreasonable to have to tweak their OS to get a new bit of hardware working obviously doesnt know much about PC's.