OCZ 240gb SSD - £

OCZ drives are fine... The new ones are perfecly reliable, and even the old ones had a minuscule failure rate. The had the highest failure rate, sure! But it was still miniscule.

Have any of you actually had an OCZ drive fail on you or are you just being parrots?

People buy Seagate HDD's all the time, and the difference in failure rate between Seagates and the next major HDD competitor is MASSIVE in comparison to the difference between old OCZ and the next major SSD competitor.
 
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depends on the price,theres better cheaper drives

suppose they are ok now Toshiba have taken over,but the last ocz owned/built ssd's failed left right and centre

there were some reliable early ocz ssd's though,think the vertex 2
 
I just don't understand why anybody would take the risk with an OCZ SSD? They have most alarming failure rate among SSD technology. You only have to Google it.
 
Andy7 said:
I just don't understand why anybody would take the risk with an OCZ SSD? They have most alarming failure rate among SSD technology. You only have to Google it.
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Cause they went bust, got bought by the 2nd biggest nand manufacturer in the world and the have been trying very hard to get rid of the reputation they had in the early days.
 
so much confusion and misunderstanding going on.

OCZ sells decent SSDs these days. ARC 100 is one of those.

(tbh not sure why Toshiba even bothered to keep the OCZ brand alive)
 
I've had a vertex 4 for about 3 years and not had any issues, sad to hear ocz couldn't survive any longer as they were turning a corner with some decent models from the vertex 4 onwards.
 
I'd put OCZ on my list of manufacturers to buy from because they and the company that owns them (Toshiba) makes both the controller and NAND, like Samsung, Sandisk, Intel and Crucial. Am I missing any others?

Their warranty option now seems like one of the best too.

http://ocz.com/shieldplus
 
Just hope that Toshiba has improved the warranty process, as they took almost 2 months (I jest not) to replace my failed Vertex 4! First it got sent to somewhere down South, then it got punted to the Netherlands. Got fed up of waiting and using an old mech drive as a temporary replacement and bought a Samsung drive as a replacement.

Any make/model of drive can fail I suppose. But that's the 2nd OCZ drive that I've had go fail, so twice bitten etc. etc. Though I do have an old vertex 2 and yet another Vertex 4 that are still performing fine. Life...

PS. While http://ocz.com/shieldplus looks good. I don't see any indication of estimated downtime etc. So could still take 2 months to replace.
I was originally told my replacement would only take around 2 weeks (ha!).
 
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