Reliable SSD please? after OCZ problems!!

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snadge

snadge

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well my new build isnt going too well..

first the case had bad paint work,
second the Zalman CPU FAN wasnt controlled by BIOS but by stupid 'fanmate' you tape too the side of your tower and control yourself...and I have to pay £7.50 return postage for something that cost £20
third had many freezes and lockups during install running the OCZ Agility 3 and re-allocated sector has gone up three times in its first 6 days of life (used only 5 days)

Iam now in process of returning the SSD and want something reliable that will work and has decent speeds... SATA2 as during all this mess I found out my SATA3 ports were crap Marvell ones that dont deliver SATA3 speeds, I have complained to Gigabyte about this as they advertise my board with "High-speed Super fast 6Gbps SATA3 Link speed"

can anyone recommend a 120Gb SATA2 speed drive that is reliable around the £80 mark?

thanks
 
830 or 840 ?

I can afford a 840 - whats difference?

the OCZ has gone back tonight in post!!

p.s. it wont be a Pro series...cant afford one... are the ;basic; ones still good?
 
840 uses the new chips iirc, so some are a little cautious. I'm running 3x 840 non-pro in my rig, 1 for my OS which is on Sata 3. The other two are in raid 0 and hooked up to sata 2 (and even so they thrash my OS on reads/writes).

Had those for a few months now, and even longer I've had a 840 non-pro in my windows home server as the OS disk.

No problems at all, but then I've got vertex 2, vertex 3 and ocz agility in other machines and they have never had an issue, bit lucky I guess :)
 
I think Vertex are more reliable than Agility...could be wrong, my dad has Vertex 2E aswell and no problems...no re-allocated sector counts at all ..nearly 2 years on!!

have u got any re-allocated sector counts? these are apparantley normal, but not if your getting many..such as 3 in 5 days - I was told if your getting 1 every week or every month then you have something to be concerned about.

whats the issue with new chips?

I stuck my 500Gb Seagate in and low and behold its almost as fast as what the SSD was lol... only 3 seconds longer to load OS..
 
I had the same problem with OCZ ssd's in mine and my mums pc, had 4 fail in 6 months. Went to Samsung and not had a problem.
 
Dom86 said:
I had the same problem with OCZ ssd's in mine and my mums pc, had 4 fail in 6 months. Went to Samsung and not had a problem.
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are you the guy that bought 13 of them..?

ouch!

I read it somewhere... 4 failed in 7 months..

did you have similar symptoms as me, odd BSOD/crash and re-allocated sector count on the rise
 
ive just ordered the 840 basic

i read this though..


Not just samsung but had same problem with ocz ssd. System would crash sometimes. Also used additional spinner hdd for storage. Had to go into power saving options and turn off turning hdd off. This seem to stop random crashes.

think that could be an issue? HHD Spindown in power settings cause SSD failure?
 
snadge said:
are you the guy that bought 13 of them..?

ouch!

I read it somewhere... 4 failed in 7 months..

did you have similar symptoms as me, odd BSOD/crash and re-allocated sector count on the rise
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No not my thankfully "only" had 4 3 agility 3's and a vertex 2e. All mine did was crash and say boot device failure.
 
snadge said:
ive just ordered the 840 basic

i read this though..


Not just samsung but had same problem with ocz ssd. System would crash sometimes. Also used additional spinner hdd for storage. Had to go into power saving options and turn off turning hdd off. This seem to stop random crashes.

think that could be an issue? HHD Spindown in power settings cause SSD failure?
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If the HDD going into power save mode caused BSODs/crashes then it would likely be due to some important files being held there, perhaps the pagefile or user directory? Some people go to great lengths to offload a lot of stuff onto HDDs from SSDs which imo can cause more headaches.
 
Deceptor said:
If the HDD going into power save mode caused BSODs/crashes then it would likely be due to some important files being held there, perhaps the pagefile or user directory? Some people go to great lengths to offload a lot of stuff onto HDDs from SSDs which imo can cause more headaches.
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I think what the guy meant was the spindown was enabled in the power options with SSD installed... no HDD.. disabling that stopped his crashes, thats what I thought he meant anyway
 
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