Vertex 4 Firmware 1.5

mikeo said:
As I commented earlier. Some of the best test results that I've seen on the OCZ forum have been on Z77 boards running Intel RST version 11 AHCI drivers. So I'd be pretty dubious that it's a motherboard / chipset issue.

Obvious question I know. But are your motherboard / chipset / BIOS drivers etc. up-to-date?
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BIOS is F15T, set AHCI and Intel RST is v11 and still getting Blue Screen Death. I unplugged and try Secure Erase using OCZ tool and reinstalled new fresh Windows with all gigabyte drivers up to dates, BIOS up to dates, Intel RST up to dates version 11 and 10 minutes later another BSD error 0x00000F4.

I had no problem with my two vertex 3 SSD and two vertex 2 SSD. So, look like Vertex 4 is faulty.

Vertex 4 going back to RMA.


I just put Vertex 3 120GB SSD back on it. And got this result below: (far better than my faulty vertex 4)

 
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bulldog147 said:
BIOS is F15T, set AHCI and Intel RST is v11 and still getting Blue Screen Death. I unplugged and try Secure Erase using OCZ tool and reinstalled new fresh Windows with all gigabyte drivers up to dates, BIOS up to dates, Intel RST up to dates version 11 and 10 minutes later another BSD error 0x00000F4.

I had no problem with my two vertex 3 SSD and two vertex 2 SSD. So, look like Vertex 4 is faulty.

Vertex 4 going back to RMA.


I just put Vertex 3 120GB SSD back on it. And got this result below: (far better than my faulty vertex 4)

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Could be a faulty drive, these things do happen.

Though the important thing in my suggested course of action, was to re-flash the firmware to the latest version. It's always possible that this was corrupted. Then to establish a base line for the performance by testing the drive as a secondary (IE. not as your boot drive with Windows installed).

But a moot issue if you are going to RMA. Hopefully you will get a drive this time with the latest fiirmware already on it and all will be well.

Good luck. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.

PS. Though I still maintain that you need to be looking further than the sequential read/writes to judge the drives performance. High IOPS and fast 4k (IE. small file) read/writes are in my opinion much more important, especially for a boot / OS drive (which is what most people will be using an SSD for).
 
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dave_beast said:
Could you possibly try it in a different sata port, different power connector and/or different computer? Not 100% sure it's the drive.
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I did try all these and did reflash to 1.5 firmware again, still same issues as it already shipped firmware 1.5. I knew it a faulty SSD straight away when it start to freeze and crash to BSD. I had spoken to OCZ and they ask me to return it to RMA and get a replacement. OCZ say I should be getting 520/560MB/s with Intel RST 11.6.0.1030
 
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