I recently managed to convince my work to buy me a 128GB OCZ Enyo external SSD from Overclockers (they now seem to have disappeared completely from the site and I'm wondering if what I'm about to say has anything to do with them being removed from sale).
The drive lasted about a day with the sort of performance I'd expect (only over USB2, mind as I don't have any USB3 ports) and after that it became next to useless. Speeds average around 700kb/s and that's when it works at all. Copying data to/from the drive results in long periods of no activity. It's like the drive has stalled. Sometimes it will start back up again, before stalling again. Sometimes it simply gives up completely and says the file at the source is no longer available. Usually unplugging the drive and plugging it back in again is enough to get it working again (albeit only for a few minutes)
I've also found the problem can be fixed by reformatting the drive. This takes it back to how it was at first, giving me about a day of it working normally, before it goes back into the same stalling routine. I've tried it on 4 different computers, so I know its the drive and not the USB interface.
OCZ have told me to RMA it after only a couple of posts on their support forums, which is what I'm going to do. But I was wondering if anyone had heard of any known faults with these drives? Particularly as Overclockers seemed to have taken them down from sale, I thought a fault in the design might have come to light or something.
Anyone know of anything? Anyone else own one and had similar problems?
The drive lasted about a day with the sort of performance I'd expect (only over USB2, mind as I don't have any USB3 ports) and after that it became next to useless. Speeds average around 700kb/s and that's when it works at all. Copying data to/from the drive results in long periods of no activity. It's like the drive has stalled. Sometimes it will start back up again, before stalling again. Sometimes it simply gives up completely and says the file at the source is no longer available. Usually unplugging the drive and plugging it back in again is enough to get it working again (albeit only for a few minutes)
I've also found the problem can be fixed by reformatting the drive. This takes it back to how it was at first, giving me about a day of it working normally, before it goes back into the same stalling routine. I've tried it on 4 different computers, so I know its the drive and not the USB interface.
OCZ have told me to RMA it after only a couple of posts on their support forums, which is what I'm going to do. But I was wondering if anyone had heard of any known faults with these drives? Particularly as Overclockers seemed to have taken them down from sale, I thought a fault in the design might have come to light or something.
Anyone know of anything? Anyone else own one and had similar problems?