Latest OCZ Sandforce Announcement!

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Hi guys,

I have been provided the latest announcement from OCZ regarding Sandforce based SSD drives.

OCZ Press said:
BSOD Issue –2.09 Customer Patch Firmware Update

OCZ is continuing to see a very low incident of BSODs, but the vast majority of customers should never experience the issue.
It continues to be very difficult to replicate, but OCZ continues to work closely with SandForce and has identified a number of items that affect the BSOD occurrence and has determined new fixes to address the issue.
We recommend any customers that have experienced the BSOD issue do the following:

1. Please ensure that the SSD is connected to your system with a high quality SATA cable that is rated for SATA 6Gbps; these cables are often supplied with motherboards and do not use SATA cables that are intended for use with previous generation drives.
2. For Intel platform users we recommend using the latest release of the Intel RST driver (10.1.0.1008)
3. If after both of these implementations you are still experiencing any BSODs, we have a firmware patch with SATA timing optimizations that we believe will address the issue. Currently, this new firmware is only recommended for customers that have observed the BSOD issue. This firmware version slightly affects sequential write performance as adjustments were made in the timings. OCZ anticipates future optimizations to the base code to minimize any performance delta associated with this temporary workaround.
Moving forward OCZ will be also adding a feature in the Toolbox which allows customers to select a setting to adjust response times.
We thank all of our customers for your support and patience and will continue to provide further updates and additional tools for any customers affected by any issues, and continue to work diligently to deliver the best solutions for our customers.
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OCZ press said:
1. Please ensure that the SSD is connected to your system with a high quality SATA cable that is rated for SATA 6Gbps; these cables are often supplied with motherboards and do not use SATA cables that are intended for use with previous generation drives.
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i didnt think there was any difference between 3GB/s sata cables and 6GB/s cables :confused:

i distinctly remember someone saying shops were selling them simply to trick non computer savvy people into giving them more money
 
Reaper 392 said:
i didnt think there was any difference between 3GB/s sata cables and 6GB/s cables :confused:
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I thought this as well. They probably want us to move to Sata 6GB/s cable will cost us more money for their profit more likely.

It make no different between 3GB/s and 6GB/s cables. Much the same with cheaper/expensive ethernet cables and also another one cheaper/expensive HDMI cables as well (no different whatsoever!)
 
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bulldog147 said:
I thought this as well. They probably want us to move to Sata 6GB/s cable will cost us more money for their profit more likely.

It make no different between 3GB/s and 6GB/s cables. Much the same with cheaper/expensive ethernet cables and also another one cheaper/expensive HDMI cables as well (no different whatsoever!)
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But i do know with HDMI cables they are digital so no matter the cable quality the image will be the same for cable under 50M.
 
tidusjar said:
But i do know with HDMI cables they are digital so no matter the cable quality the image will be the same for cable under 50M.
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Thats not 100% accurate, Digital cables still get noise on them unless properly shielded, a little bit of induced currents on a poorly shielded line can easily bump the voltage to make a 0 into a 1. That's why Monster etc can charge lots of money for a well shielded cable over the free one which isn't, although you'd have to have a hell of an issue to actually see digital interference caused by induced current!
 
Actually there is a difference, I have an SSD which was maxing out at 250ish GB/s reading the drive is rated higher, it was plugged into a SATA-III header using a SATA-II cable.

I changed the cable to one labelled SATA 6GB and I now get my rated speeds.
 
Ace Modder said:
Actually there is a difference, I have an SSD which was maxing out at 250ish GB/s reading the drive is rated higher, it was plugged into a SATA-III header using a SATA-II cable.

I changed the cable to one labelled SATA 6GB and I now get my rated speeds.
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Meh and all the guys on here dissed me in the sata 2 vs sata 3 cable thread on here when I said that you need a good quality cable for the high speeds and that your sata 2 cable cable may not be up to scratch :p
 
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