SSD: Samsung vs OCZ
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OCZ is known for having the fastest SSDs with the lowest reliability. Buy at your own risk. My friend's Vertex 2 stopped working completely after almost a year of usage. The retail shop where he bought it gave him a samsung 840 120gb cause they didnt bring OCZ anymore. he couldn't be happier.
Glad I read this, my OCZ has just failed today after approximately 12 months. (yet my old original G.Skill is still going strong) - been advised Samsung 840 Pro next, haven't decided 120 or 240gb yet, although have decided not to go OCZ again.
Im just a bit sad that OCZ has this issue even though they claim its not that bad(apperently worse than most competitors) cause i really liked the VECTORs performance. It didnt care if the data was compressed or not and in my laptop it was so blazingly fast you wouldnt believe it. I mean so fast that the second you would see the windows 8 logo popup for booting it would go away again and go to the login. INSANE!
Got the money back from my return and cant deside which one to get myself. Been looking at the kingston HyperX 3K, seems solid yet have no experience except for their V100 64gig which do not like my current or previous desktop pc(runs fine though in my laptop).
I agree also - Got the OCZ originally as was sold with the performance vs price. I'm going to try RMAing it, but will just replace it for now with the Samsung.
I've moved to Smasung after always buying OCZ, after hearing reports about OCZ being in the Red put me off & the Samsung has lived up to its reviews.
I've had 4 OCZ drives from Vertex 1 to the Vertex 4, I've had one die on me & it was down to a short from the PSU blowing all my drives but OCZ RMA'd it in a week. So, dont be put off by there RMA & there UK based too...
I've got to say that most SSD's (sata 6) are all the same these days but this Sammy Pro ROCKS !
I've had 4 OCZ drives from Vertex 1 to the Vertex 4, I've had one die on me & it was down to a short from the PSU blowing all my drives but OCZ RMA'd it in a week. So, dont be put off by there RMA & there UK based too...
I've got to say that most SSD's (sata 6) are all the same these days but this Sammy Pro ROCKS !
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Most people overstate OCZ failures, purely because OCZ has the most active user forums.
No one goes to a samsung forum to report their failures, so there is no scary website with every failure all in one place which you read and then think every drive they have fails, because people who just buy, use and never have a problem don't go on support forums.
With any SSD you have a chance of a failure, a low chance, it happens, thats life, move past it. OCZ do have good RMA service, unsure of Samsung(never had to) and Crucial also have good rma service, in the UK its good to have companies who have uk addresses and quick turn around, Corsair... booo, crucial/ocz, great service.
In terms of performance, benchmarks are utterly worthless and 99% of people would be VERY hard pressed to tell the difference between most of the drives made in the past 2-3 years without benchmarks. Benchmarks mostly and ssd innovation of late is mostly improving/highlighting stuff like high depth queue read/writes, thing is, home computer use NEVER involves these situations, great speeds in benchmarks are being show with 32-64 depth queues, where as in real life home usage, depth queue rarely if every moves above 5-6, and in most cases is lower than that. Benchmarks have zero relavance to home usage.
Likewise most people "upgrade" to a new drive off an OS install they've had for anything from 6 months to 3-4 years, and as such moving from a used/messy state, dodgy install with loads of patches on patches on patches, to a new install on a new drive and see a difference. But most of that difference would happen if they just reinstalled windows.
Get whatever is cheapest of any drive in the past 2 years, it won't matter, more space > more speed anyway. you fill the thing above 50% speed drops, fill it above 70-80% speed drops even further. 120gb drive is emphatically worse than a 180gb one, even if benchmarks show otherwise on an empty drive, actually use the thing, install games, and fill it up, boom, speed disappears anyway.
No one goes to a samsung forum to report their failures, so there is no scary website with every failure all in one place which you read and then think every drive they have fails, because people who just buy, use and never have a problem don't go on support forums.
With any SSD you have a chance of a failure, a low chance, it happens, thats life, move past it. OCZ do have good RMA service, unsure of Samsung(never had to) and Crucial also have good rma service, in the UK its good to have companies who have uk addresses and quick turn around, Corsair... booo, crucial/ocz, great service.
In terms of performance, benchmarks are utterly worthless and 99% of people would be VERY hard pressed to tell the difference between most of the drives made in the past 2-3 years without benchmarks. Benchmarks mostly and ssd innovation of late is mostly improving/highlighting stuff like high depth queue read/writes, thing is, home computer use NEVER involves these situations, great speeds in benchmarks are being show with 32-64 depth queues, where as in real life home usage, depth queue rarely if every moves above 5-6, and in most cases is lower than that. Benchmarks have zero relavance to home usage.
Likewise most people "upgrade" to a new drive off an OS install they've had for anything from 6 months to 3-4 years, and as such moving from a used/messy state, dodgy install with loads of patches on patches on patches, to a new install on a new drive and see a difference. But most of that difference would happen if they just reinstalled windows.
Get whatever is cheapest of any drive in the past 2 years, it won't matter, more space > more speed anyway. you fill the thing above 50% speed drops, fill it above 70-80% speed drops even further. 120gb drive is emphatically worse than a 180gb one, even if benchmarks show otherwise on an empty drive, actually use the thing, install games, and fill it up, boom, speed disappears anyway.
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i had 3 ocz drives fail on me within months use, i had intel before them and that was good never any problems, and now i have a crucial m4 256 and again no problems
Had a vertex 3 240g and it was flawless from the day I bought it until the day I sold it too get a larger capacity. Got a Samsung 840 (non pro) 500g and haven't noticed any difference speed wise but a great large capacity for the price.