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Hmmm, I may well not let these near my main PC then if the reports of all the DOAs are true.

@Gibbo: What are you doing with DOAs, replacing with newer stock via OCZ?
 
Well i chucked mine in an old p4 test bed last night and it seems to function so here is hoping all is well when i install it into a new build later tomorrow.
 
Folks one question (while I wait for RM to deliver the HDs!).
I want to RAID 0 two of these drives. These will be a games drive (not operating system).

So it should relatively simple to just plug them in and let windows detect them with no need for a reinstall?.

Also since I want to RAID them, what do I need to do to set this up?

Cheers folks :)
 
My drive is working great. Shame about the low write speed compared to some other peoples Vertex 2 drives tho.
 
My two drives coming today (one as op sys / games, 2nd as 64gb cache partition / games). Got my email notification in the morning, shame about the afternoon delivery, but I do live in the countryside, and you can call it remote, so I don't mind at the end of the day, as long as it is delivered today.
 
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Samsung R610 Latop,, about 3 years old
 
Got mine today. Lobbed it in desktop, updated fw and ran a couple of benchies. Seems fine so far. Big test will be when it goes in laptop I guess :-)

Still got my Samsung 830 to install in desktop yet!

I've jus realised the only spinning disks I'm my life now are in my NAS and games consoles :-)
 
Gibbo - Seems support have denied being able to test my replacement SSD, could you please look into this? Would hate to have another and have to go through the process again. I don't mind the package being opened at all.

Support said:
Unfortunately legally we aren't aloud to open the packages before sending them out sir. I am sorry if this causes any problems.

Regards,

James Bailey
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Rahr85 said:
tried updating the firmware and it just locks up windows (7)
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Use the bootable "Linux based tools."


Takes a bit longer but essentially fool proof.



Was reading Anandtech's "SSD Anthology" and it's very interesting stuff, actually. People had been telling me to be careful of reading and writing too much to SSDs as it decreases the life of drives and they have "only" 10,000 writes in them, but once you understand just one "write" is, you realise the SSD will in all likelihood last much longer than you'll plan on using it for, even with rather heavy usage.
 
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Folks, can you run both Raid and Non raid drives? I just read my manual and it says I need to set in the bios to raid, but wouldnt that do it for all the drives
 
Do you think it helps to have more extended space? I've left 15gb unpartitioned dunno if that's way more than is needed.
 
TRIM has made that largely pointless.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2829/8

See the graphs. Static data levels are more important. There's already more than enough spare space on the disk.

What you're essentially doing is making it impossible to put anything on that 15GB when you should just keep it on your drive, and try to keep your static data to a minimum.
 
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