OCZ Agility 3 - avoiding problems

richiej1979

richiej1979

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Hi there, I'm in the process of installing the above SSD onto my machine -

Gigabyte GA-M68MT-S2 (doesn't support SATA3 3 gb p/s, or AHCI)
AM3 CPU
G.Skill RipJawsX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz
Win 7
1 x Radeon 6770 gfx

I also have a Toshiba 1tb HDD.

I am currently installing the new drivers for the board which should enable AHCI and hopefully TRIM but what's the best way to avoid issues with this particular SSD?

Had I of researched properly I think I would have got a Crucial M4 as I'm not going to get the speeds out of the Agility 3 anyway with my setup.

Thanks
 
richiej1979 said:
Hi there, I'm in the process of installing the above SSD onto my machine -

Gigabyte GA-M68MT-S2 (doesn't support SATA3 3 gb p/s, or AHCI)
AM3 CPU
G.Skill RipJawsX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz
Win 7
1 x Radeon 6770 gfx

I also have a Toshiba 1tb HDD.

I am currently installing the new drivers for the board which should enable AHCI and hopefully TRIM but what's the best way to avoid issues with this particular SSD?

Had I of researched properly I think I would have got a Crucial M4 as I'm not going to get the speeds out of the Agility 3 anyway with my setup.

Thanks
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....so I woke up this am and switched on the machine and it freezes.

Sigh.
 
I've not had any particular issues with this drive; you may require a firmware upgrade as I had the occasional BSOD when the drives went to sleep but didn't wake up properly (or something along those lines). As for random freezing, I can't help you there I'm afraid. Did you reinstall Windows to your SSD, or are you still booting from the HDD? If the latter is the case then I wouldn't expect this to be related to the SSD at all.

The M4 has its own issues, so I wouldn't kick yourself too hard over your choice. :)
 
you should check your firmware version there has been a number of upgrades for it and having between myself and friends over 8 of these drives, we are all running the new firmware in a number of new/old laptops and differing desktops with no issues and similar performance.
 
I checked the latest firmware update on the OCZ site and it's the latest version, I think it's 2.6 or something along those lines.

I'm going to do a clean install of W7 tonight and hope that resolves the issue.

I'm booting from the SSD but I'm not using AHCI. I should add I tried booting from my other w7 install and that worked fine and I was able to read the disk with no problems.
 
Broken Hope said:
Like I said it affected a tiny percentage of customers and was fixed in less than a week, OCZ SSDs tend to have more issues and took a lot longer to fix and some people still have issues.
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Oh, I was under the impression that whilst it was fixed, it would affect every drive which hit 5200 hours, it just so happened that only people who'd been running basically 24/7 since they were released were beginning to run into the issue.

I might've read that wrong then though...
 
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