OCZ Agility SSD Failed Yet Again

None of the 6 Aglity3s, 2 solid series, 2 vertex turbos and a vertex+ have failed on me one of the agility and the vertex+ had BSOD issues but firmware fixes sorted that.
 
A snipped quote from the Final Words in a Tom's Hardware article about SSD v conventional HDD reliability

Let's put everything we've explored into some rational perspective. Here is what we know about hard drives from the two cited studies.

MTBF tells you nothing about reliability.
The annualized failure rate (AFR) is higher than what manufacturers claim.
Drives do not have a tendency to fail during the first year of use. Failure rates steadily increase with age.
SMART is not a reliable warning system for impending failure detection.
The failure rates of “enterprise” and “consumer” drives are very much similar.
The failure of one drive in an array increases the likelihood of another drive failure.
Temperature has a minor effect on failure rates.

Thanks to Softlayer's 5000+-drive operation, we know that some of those points also apply to SSDs. As we saw in the published studies, hard drive failure rates are affected by controllers, firmware, and interfaces (SAS versus SATA). If it's true that write endurance doesn't play a role in random drive failures and that vendors use compute-quality NAND in MLC- and SLC-based products, then we'd expect enterprise-class SSDs to be no more reliable than consumer offerings.
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the full article here

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-reliability-failure-rate,2923-9.html

So you can read it all if you wish and put it into correct context. The article is a little dated, 6 months or so, but you can see that overall we don't know the "worst" drives because no studies beyond 2 years exsist yet and numbers from manufactures are a "bit dubious" to say the least.

You'll also see that. in the quote above, even Tom's Harware are stating reasons for failure that I quoted you from OCZ forums earlier.

Make of it what you will :)
 
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My Vertex 2E sometimes causes problems with files being shown to be the wrong size and results in orphaned blocks. I keep having to run a disc repair on it. No idea if this is the disc or a problem with HFS+.
 
Andrew Moore said:
lol

incorrect.

Im not saying who has the highest but its not what you say it is.
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Why not? Don't you think that information would be useful to ocuk customers?

Any information ocuk has on product reliability should be shared with the customer base, particularly with SSDs where reliability is hard to measure from individual samples.
 
I wonder how meny ocz die cos of misuse, as I have no idea of the do's and dont's on intel ssd's. But I would always read up on the ssd before I used it, so if the ssd broke, I would know its not my fault in anyway.
 
jastreet1 said:
I would never have an OCZ again. Just bought a 128GB M4 - will be taking the OCZ back tomorrow!
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After reading through the Crucial forum site ... I hope you come back and report the same about your M4 in a little while with just as much glee !! :D

they seem to suffer with BSOD issues etc etc just like all the rest..... enjoy :)
 
Essexraptor said:
After reading through the Crucial forum site ... I hope you come back and report the same about your M4 in a little while with just as much glee !! :D

they seem to suffer with BSOD issues etc etc just like all the rest..... enjoy :)
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Just make sure you read to do's and dont's on the manufacturer's forum before you use the drive. I did this with my OCZ ssd and I haven't had any probs with it, since I bought it 13months ago.
 
From what I understand the M4 are much more reliable?

Also, misuse on the OCZ Agility 3 - it was crashing with 24 hours of ownership? In that time I installed Windows 7 and a few programs that was all. I put it forward that my experience was so poor I am suprised OCZ products are on the self.
 
I own 3x OCZ PSUs (from the GameXStream and StealthXStream series) along with 2x OCZ Vertex 2E (with the latest firmware, even then they were fine) - and I have not had a single problem with either the PSUs or SSDs over the last 3+ years.

I always found OCZ to be a reputable company - I still to this day buy OCZ products with confidence.
 
HarryPainful said:
Misuse?!

LOL! :rolleyes::rolleyes:
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Yeah,,,,,1. use the correct erasing/formatting tool for the drive each time you reinstall 2. never defrag 3. leave free space on the drive, so the ssd can move data around and then the same cells are not being constantly written to. Plus browse through the manufactures forum.
 
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I always read up on any new product l install and make notes so if l'm stuck l can check what l'm doing, of the manufactures site or forums. Every SSD l installed the correct way and installed the latest firmware, the last thing l installed was a custom loop and had notes handy to keep me right and got some sound advice of the forum members who had already had a custom loop.

Yes, l know not to defrag a ssd and never fill a ssd or hardrive to its limit, both need a certain amout of free space to function properly
 
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