OCZ Vertex Plus R2

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I recently bought a 240GB OCZ Vertex Plus R2 as a long awaited upgrade for my laptop. I knew exactly what I wanted - a minimum of 200GB and as cheap as possible. My laptop is only sata 2 therefore I'm not buying a sata3 SSD for no reason. So I looked around for a cheap one and this popped up.

I ended up going down to my local store and picking it up for £99.99.

Now. That seems amazing for 240GB of SSD! Is it too good? Is this actually an awful drive? I installed OSX and everything runs incredibly smoothly so far, but should I expect drive failure perhaps sooner than with other SSD makes? Surely less than a hundred quid for 240GB is close enough a steal?
 
Took a quick look about as it does sound a steal considering current ssd prices. Not much about reliability out there and no reviews of the R2 vertex plus that I could find just a tidbit on the R2 having an indlinx barefoot 2 controller over the 'R1'
 
Just make sure you backup your stuff regularly. Ive had 3 OCZ SSDs just go for no reason. They were all replaced under warrenty but its still a pian. Where as ive had a M4 sat running for 2-3 years. Maybe just unlucky but no more OCZ SSD for me.
 
The older OCZ drives such as the Vertex Plus aren't plagued with a horribly unreliable controller like their Sandforce drives (e.g. Vertex/Agility 2/3). I've had a few Vertex Plus and R2's for friends and family over the last year or so and no failures yet.
They're not the fastest drives out there but miles faster than any HDD, and you'd be hard pushed to even notice the difference between one and a brand new M4 or 840 Pro outside of benchmarks.
Deals of £100 for the 240GB has been around for a while at various places, though not always in stock. However, it's still a great deal IMO, yes.

As always though, keep your important data backed up elsewhere, especially important with an SSD as the usual cause of death is a controller or firmware failure which usually renders the drive completely inoperable so no chance of recovering it.
 
Thanks for this. I've got it all backed up with TimeMachine as my laptop is Mac.

Got an M4 in my desktop (Windows) which has been great. Just needed a cheap and relatively large drive as the main and only drive in my laptop. Boots in under 10 seconds now - works like a dream! Wonder how long I'll be saying that for :D
 
CaptainUnlikely said:
The older OCZ drives such as the Vertex Plus aren't plagued with a horribly unreliable controller like their Sandforce drives (e.g. Vertex/Agility 2/3). I've had a few Vertex Plus and R2's for friends and family over the last year or so and no failures yet.
They're not the fastest drives out there but miles faster than any HDD, and you'd be hard pushed to even notice the difference between one and a brand new M4 or 840 Pro outside of benchmarks.
Deals of £100 for the 240GB has been around for a while at various places, though not always in stock. However, it's still a great deal IMO, yes.

As always though, keep your important data backed up elsewhere, especially important with an SSD as the usual cause of death is a controller or firmware failure which usually renders the drive completely inoperable so no chance of recovering it.
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You cannot expect that all drives having SF controller would fail. Agreed that some of them were faulty, which still puts the success rate not less than 80%. I am using vertex SSD from the time they were launched & they are still my favorite. Not to mention, I am a rough user and that poor SSD has gone through all my tortures.hehe;)
 
A Vertex does not have a SF controller. I also didn't say all of them were faulty - just that they have a horrendously high failure rate when compared to drives based on any other controller.
 
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