OCZ Agility SSD Failed Yet Again

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Well my OCZ Agility SSD 3rd replacement under warranty has failed after 6 months, e-mailed OCZ and told them that this one had failed. l also stated that l wanted a refund and would refuse to sign for a replacement if one was sent.

I recieved a e-mail saying l could have a refund, so sent them an e-mail with copy of recept from OCuK, so all l have to do is wait and see how much they are going to offer. l will keep you's informed how much off a refund l will get. Hoping to claim for postage as well as l insured them just in case they got lost and thats not cheap.

All the best for 2012. :)
 
I would never buy OCZ again!

I bought two (for raid 0) of the original Vertex’s one died within a year, got replacement, which died within three months, the other the following month. I would never buy OCZ again:(:( I now have two Crucial SSD’s in raid 0 for a year now and haven’t missed a beat! ;);)
 
Gizmowithatt said:
I bought two (for raid 0) of the original Vertex’s one died within a year, got replacement, which died within three months, the other the following month. I would never buy OCZ again:(:( I now have two Crucial SSD’s in raid 0 for a year now and haven’t missed a beat! ;);)
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Same, I would never buy anything OCZ again. 120gb Agility 3 was a pain in the backside with random crashes (even on the latest firmware). Installed a Crucial M4 and never had a single crash or issue since!
 
I think after this SSD, I won't buy OCZ again either. It kept causing BSOD's, but a Firmware update has helped it. It also reads at 130ºc, bloody faulty thing.
 
Keep in mind, the OCZ RMA procedure is to secure erase the SSD and test it. If it passes their test, they send the same drive back to you. That might also explain why some OCZ customers have multiple failures

If you read a few of the support posts on the OCZ forum, you will quickly see that OCZ believes the most common cause for SSD failure is hardware compatibility. This can range from incompatible or out dated drivers, outdated MB Bios and a range of other compatability problems.

The temp reading thing is old news and a fix is been about since Oct 2011.

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/f...ure-reporting-fix-for-Vertex3-Agility3-Solid3

If you know it's a fault... look for the fix or ignore it. 99% of normal users would be completely unaware and not bothered at all.

I'll buck the trend here... My OCZ 100Gb LE.... 2 years old .... no BSOD faults or anything else.

Would I buy OCZ again.... YES :)
 
Essexraptor said:
If you read a few of the support posts on the OCZ forum, you will quickly see that OCZ believes the most common cause for SSD failure is hardware compatibility. This can range from incompatible or out dated drivers, outdated MB Bios and a range of other compatability problems.

If you know it's a fault... look for the fix or ignore it. 99% of normal users would be completely unaware and not bothered at all.

I'll buck the trend here... My OCZ 100Gb LE.... 2 years old .... no BSOD faults or anything else.

Would I buy OCZ again.... YES :)
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so your saying basicly people with ocz ssd drives must have a "compatible hardware" but it seem isn't widely ranged and theres no compatible list on ocz site.

i really think it's a case of the drive itself....

i've seen so many people say they come from a ocz ssd to a xxxxx ssd and everything is running better / no issues

also u don't hear hardly any complaints about Corsair ssds / Crucial ssds / intel ssds ect failing in the first year..

maybe you got lucky with your ssd,

my OCZ 90GB Vertex 2E is completely dead /locked just shows (the red and green lights)
 
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No... more of a case of blaming the drive for failure and tarring a whole company product with the same brush. .... when it's more of a case of running outdated drivers or BIOS versions or simple fixes such as updating RST versions etc.

If I was a betting man, I would say you've had the same drive back 3 times now and perhaps a little digging into the system setup would have resolved your problems and threads like this would be less common :)

OCZ are no better or worse than the average 2 - 3% failure rate for computer hardware failure across the industry. This looks bad if your pumping out literally 100's of thousands per month :)
 
Essexraptor said:
No... more of a case of blaming the drive for failure and tarring a whole company product with the same brush. .... when it's more of a case of running outdated drivers or BIOS versions or simple fixes such as updating RST versions etc.
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i always keep my drivers/bios/firmware up to date, so thats not the case of mine died.

also as i said i've seen so many people say they come from a ocz ssd to a xxxxx ssd and everything is running better / no issues
 
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Just wanted to add the I believe the issue is with the controller being used in these drives, the Sandforce SF-2200 which is also used in SSD drives from Corsair. But in majority of cases the issue was fixed with a firmware update.

I have a OCZ Vertex 2 which (touch wood) I have not had an issue with, I have had the drive for nearly a year now.
 
Hi, l have always kept my drivers upto date as well as the Bios and never use Beta drivers in both case's. l also heard the ssd controller was suspect as well, yes there are going to be OCZ SSD'S that don't fail.

My first one lasted about a year, second one acouple of month, the third 6months and my PC is stable when the second one failed l tested the memory, etc, and OC at 4.2 no problems its been at that just over two years

Happy New Year. :)
 
gareth170 said:
i always keep my drivers/bios/firmware up to date, so thats not the case of mine died.
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OLDPHART said:
Hi, l have always kept my drivers upto date as well as the Bios and never use Beta drivers in both case's.
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i imagine it is more a case of incompatible hardware/ drivers (of all versions, not just old ones) that they guy is talking about - keeping them up to date wouldnt matter if all the drivers of that piece of hardware interfere with the drive :)
 
The sandforce issue effected all Sandforce drives, its got very little to do with OCZ and it would seem OCZ both sell the most ssd's and were the most active of the companies working with Sandforce to fix it.

They also offered the most potential fixes, which leads to more beta firmwares and testing and more users who would jump on new firmwares and still not have a fix and sometimes have more problems.

Sandforce had an issue, I'm not sure if it was entirely down to sandforce or, it seems it had a lot to do with Intel's sata controller changing drivers and fixing things that were broken or not working in the controller.

I really haven't followed it closely enough to say for sure, but the problems really weren't afaik a single thing to do with OCZ other than that the problem should likely have been caught before sale, and holding back selling the drives till the problem was actually fixed was a very possible "fix". Though again, afaik some of the reasons for the problems were changing drivers on the Intel sata controller.
Much the same way the grey screen of death for 5870/50's was at least in part caused by a windows power management update that caused the way it told gpu's to change power state to change, which caused the gpu to drop to wrong clocks/voltages at the wrong time and then you got a crash.

Sometimes problems only occur after release, when a range of several things change and combine to cause a new problem, blaming OCZ for that is just daft, especially as again, it effected all of the new sandforce drives from all the manufacturers AND Ocz did more than any other company to get it fixed, which also led to the same drives from all the other manufacturers getting the fix. ALL the bios's on Sandforce drives come from sandforce, OCZ add little tweaks and rename them but its still sandforce bioses.


I've had 4 Crucial ssd's die, one samsung and a few crucials be fine. Crap happens.
 
panyan said:
i imagine it is more a case of incompatible hardware/ drivers (of all versions, not just old ones) that they guy is talking about - keeping them up to date wouldnt matter if all the drivers of that piece of hardware interfere with the drive :)
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hence why i said it seems sandforce drives are not has a wide range of hardware or drivers that is compatible with it.

also sandforce drives seem to be to easy to go wrong or kill. by just changing something or adding something or installing something or updating something....

also how can one sandforce drive last lets say 14months and a new same model sandforce drive last 4months with the same rig/hardware/drivers?? going by that it must be a issue with some sandforce drives
 
Well just to let yous know OCZ have gone back on thier word about a refund, l came across this article in The Register about thier SSD's having problems. When a customer of OCZ wrote to The Register about OCZ SSD's being faulty, OCZ said in the article "Additionally, we do have a clear warranty policy and are always happy to provide an exchange or refund to this person should the product not meet their expectations for whatever reason."

The Register -
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/08/ocz_bsods_ongoing/

Well thier SSD's have not meet my expectations. :(
 
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