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Hi All,
I have just bought a Vertex 3 120GB for my main rig and a Vertex 2 60GB for my HTPC. After 8 hours of struggling with the Vertex 3 last night I suspect that it is faulty.
My Main Rig is
AMD 955
8GB Corsair Vengance
Asus M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3
Currently OS is on a Seagate Momentus Hybrid Drive.
Other HDD are all Seagate Sata II and used just for storage.
When I introduced the Vertex 3 to my system it was recognised by Win 7 X64 Professional. Drivers installed successfully apparently. Though it didnt show up in My Computer.
I went to Computer Management / Data Management and Initialised the drive. Then created a simple volume (selecting MBR). The OS would not allocated a drive letter and did format it. So it then did appear in My Computer.
So I set about trying to update the firmware on it before trying to lay down a new OS.
I was stunned to discover from the OCZ website that the Vertex 3 series can not be flashed using the OCZ Toolbox it the drive is setup as a boot drive!!!
WHich is the whole point for me. How many people buy these for actual storage reasons at this point?
The firmware currently on the drive is 2.06 and the latest is 2.11
I then had hours of problems because I hadnt realised that I couldnt flash this drive as it was setup as a boot drive. Loads of computer hangs followed by CHDISK going bersek when I rebooted. My OS drive experienced all kinds of issues and Firefox became corrupted and had to be reinstalled.
CHDISK found loads of errors on my OS drive (momentus) and fixed them. But this kept re-occuring.
After I while and after lots of reading I reset the Vertex to Out of the Box condition and reformatted it as a storage drive. I was trying to work out if the drive is bad or is it me?
As a storage drive I did get it to allocate and initialise (or so I thought) and seen in My Computer. It hadnt been seen in My Computer since that initial OS detection and driver install.
Data Management just kept saying that the list of drives was not up to date and to refresh drives or restart computer.
So it kept disappearing on me and my computer.
As A storage drive I tried to flash it via Firefox and after repeated failures I tried IE too. The procedure seemed to work but the firmware remains at 2.06 no matter how many times I have tried.
Still got computer hangs.
So I have given up on the drive. I will RMA and probably go for the Elmcrest 510 instead. My mobo supports Sata 3 and I want to utilise that.
I intend to hold my "libraries" on the momentus (as its 500GB) and other drives as storage.
Oh, I tried setting ACHI mode in the bios and the drives on 0-3 Sata connections completely disappeared from the bios.
ACHI comments appeared during boot up sequence but my PC just shutdown!!!!
So though this is my first venture with SSD's I honestly think I have tried everything.
Have I missed anything? Or is this drive knackered??
This morning I attached the Vertex 2 to my rig. Only other drive attached is the OS drive (momentus).
Vertex 2 can be flashed as a boot drive, so not the same issue. You are of course supposed to back up data etc just in case. But you dont have the ridiculous palarva of the Vertex 3 whereby you would need to attach to a different rig (coz you need an OS), erase it. Format it to storage and flash, then put back where it came from and reinstall the OS everytime you wanted or needed to flash the OS.
Vertex 2 was identified fine. It does read and write. However I couldnt flash the firmware on it either. Seemed to go well but the firmware showed as 1.32 when the latest is 1.33 (and not that much difference tbh).
Vertex 2 is clearly a more mature and refined product.
I am going to stick the vertex 2 in my HTPC and see how I get on.
The HTPC is connected to the main rig with a gigabit lan and I stream Blu Rays to it. It holds not data at all and has no other purpose.
HTPC and Browser is all its used for.
Any comments at all would be appreciated. I am not a computer novice at all having built many systems over the years. You can assume that all latest drivers and OS updates have been applied.
Its AMD chipset so no Intel driver issues to be considered.
Cheers
I have just bought a Vertex 3 120GB for my main rig and a Vertex 2 60GB for my HTPC. After 8 hours of struggling with the Vertex 3 last night I suspect that it is faulty.
My Main Rig is
AMD 955
8GB Corsair Vengance
Asus M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3
Currently OS is on a Seagate Momentus Hybrid Drive.
Other HDD are all Seagate Sata II and used just for storage.
When I introduced the Vertex 3 to my system it was recognised by Win 7 X64 Professional. Drivers installed successfully apparently. Though it didnt show up in My Computer.
I went to Computer Management / Data Management and Initialised the drive. Then created a simple volume (selecting MBR). The OS would not allocated a drive letter and did format it. So it then did appear in My Computer.
So I set about trying to update the firmware on it before trying to lay down a new OS.
I was stunned to discover from the OCZ website that the Vertex 3 series can not be flashed using the OCZ Toolbox it the drive is setup as a boot drive!!!
WHich is the whole point for me. How many people buy these for actual storage reasons at this point?
The firmware currently on the drive is 2.06 and the latest is 2.11
I then had hours of problems because I hadnt realised that I couldnt flash this drive as it was setup as a boot drive. Loads of computer hangs followed by CHDISK going bersek when I rebooted. My OS drive experienced all kinds of issues and Firefox became corrupted and had to be reinstalled.
CHDISK found loads of errors on my OS drive (momentus) and fixed them. But this kept re-occuring.
After I while and after lots of reading I reset the Vertex to Out of the Box condition and reformatted it as a storage drive. I was trying to work out if the drive is bad or is it me?
As a storage drive I did get it to allocate and initialise (or so I thought) and seen in My Computer. It hadnt been seen in My Computer since that initial OS detection and driver install.
Data Management just kept saying that the list of drives was not up to date and to refresh drives or restart computer.
So it kept disappearing on me and my computer.
As A storage drive I tried to flash it via Firefox and after repeated failures I tried IE too. The procedure seemed to work but the firmware remains at 2.06 no matter how many times I have tried.
Still got computer hangs.
So I have given up on the drive. I will RMA and probably go for the Elmcrest 510 instead. My mobo supports Sata 3 and I want to utilise that.
I intend to hold my "libraries" on the momentus (as its 500GB) and other drives as storage.
Oh, I tried setting ACHI mode in the bios and the drives on 0-3 Sata connections completely disappeared from the bios.
ACHI comments appeared during boot up sequence but my PC just shutdown!!!!
So though this is my first venture with SSD's I honestly think I have tried everything.
Have I missed anything? Or is this drive knackered??
This morning I attached the Vertex 2 to my rig. Only other drive attached is the OS drive (momentus).
Vertex 2 can be flashed as a boot drive, so not the same issue. You are of course supposed to back up data etc just in case. But you dont have the ridiculous palarva of the Vertex 3 whereby you would need to attach to a different rig (coz you need an OS), erase it. Format it to storage and flash, then put back where it came from and reinstall the OS everytime you wanted or needed to flash the OS.
Vertex 2 was identified fine. It does read and write. However I couldnt flash the firmware on it either. Seemed to go well but the firmware showed as 1.32 when the latest is 1.33 (and not that much difference tbh).
Vertex 2 is clearly a more mature and refined product.
I am going to stick the vertex 2 in my HTPC and see how I get on.
The HTPC is connected to the main rig with a gigabit lan and I stream Blu Rays to it. It holds not data at all and has no other purpose.
HTPC and Browser is all its used for.
Any comments at all would be appreciated. I am not a computer novice at all having built many systems over the years. You can assume that all latest drivers and OS updates have been applied.
Its AMD chipset so no Intel driver issues to be considered.
Cheers