OCZ OCZSSD2-1AGT60G 60GB SATA 2 AGILITY SERIES SOLID STATE DRIVE RETAIL

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Dont care about OS load time I care about actual program load time and its awesome I use W7 Ultimate 64bit and paired with this SSD wow Love the speed and good price not best but if i was looking for cheap and slow id get a 5400rpm hdd

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i had some issue at first the drive was slow and stuff bot once i updated the firmware (really easy to find) it worked perfectly !

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Lately this SSD has been on sale for just slightly over $2 per GB, which finally makes it purchasable in my opinion. For that you get a lightweight, nimble, and reliable SSD that performs noticably better than a 7,200rpm HDD RAID 0 array. Boot time for me (finishes loading all startup programs) is 32secs. If there's one thing to fault the 60GB Agility for it's the lack of a 2.5

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GB per dollar clearly is not the strong point here, but the price was right at the time. Know that there's a chance you'll need to update the firmware, which is somewhat a pain - not hard, just a hassle. If you are not putting this in a laptop, a 2.5in dock or an adapter for your desktop, then you will need to be creative with how you physically mount it, as with any 2.5in drive. Oh, and as for the performance, you do not need my comments on that - you know why you are buying this. Better value than most other 60GB solid state drives - when you get down to it you are just splitting hairs with the performance that solid state drives offer. Of course, the particular application you choose this for will determine just how 'awesome' it will be, e.g. OS drive vs. media read-write drive.

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If you dont' want these banging around in your case, then order an adaptor to mount them. OCZACSSDBRKT2 is what is needed. Too bad they do not carry them now, but hopefully they will in the future.

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The drive is very fast but is limited due to space that is required with the new OS's. Overall a good performer just too expensive for the little space provided.

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If you have Windows 7, you got to own this one. Boot up speed is 10 seconds for me right now.

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Good HDD for the price, testing speed atm., waiting for my new OS, easy to install. Forfat is needed before windows detect it.

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Well I've had some experience using SSD's, I have been using Vertex 120G at work for 6 months now so I got hooked up to SSD and needed it at home. 60GB is the sweet spot for an OS drive with Win7 x64. It really makes a huge difference in day to day usage!Of course the price is still very high VS capacity, so you'll need a second data drive. I use a NAS with 1.5TB for that purpose.One of the things that can be challenging is doing firmware upgrades on this... the latest 1.5 was not exactly easy to apply from 1.42, involved using a jumper then bootdisk using IDE mode. Plus if I would have applied it right away there's a good chance it would have bricked my drive as many others did, because my specific model required different instructions that were not published at first... The best advice I can give you is WAIT at least 3 weeks before applying new firmware upgrade on OCZ SSD drives so all bugs are found & corrected.Now don't panic, it's still a great product, but just don't rush at every new firmware and follow instructions carefully.

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Work out of the box on windows 7. Firmware 1.5, Boot Windows 7 in 15 sec. it'S very pleasant to use. On the ATTO bench, I reach 200mb/s on read and write

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Not much to say about this SSD, overall a great buy.Many will have to upgrade their whole computer to get performance gains, but with an SSD like this one, it's one of the only upgrades you'll actually notice a difference in.Was deciding between the Agility or Vertex, Vertex being $20 more, I thought I'd rather pocket the money and don't regret it at all. Start ups are super fast, no having to wait for all my apps and services to load. Boot up, and everything loads in an instant. Can't go wrong with SSD!

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havent had the time to test this yet, but this drive has very little difference from vertax. definitely should pick it up when its on sale.

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I bought one of these drives for my new i7 build running windows 7 x64 on a Gigabyte EX58-UD3R motherboard. Windows installed without a hitch and it's been smooth running since. It came with firmware 1.40 and I just now update d it to 1.5 following the instructions laid out on the OCZ forum which can be found here: http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?67815-1-5-FW-update -for-Agility-Vertex-EX-drives-and-TurboThere were some issues with people updating from 1.42 but I believe they've worked that out now. For me the update  to 1.5 was easy and quick and after running AS SSD Benchmark there's a definite performance increase already.Loving it and would definitely recommend.

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Fast drive, my test from www.roadkil.net showed around 200+ MB/s on reads, and slightly less (180+ MB/s) on writes, using 512KB blocks or larger. This is 4x times as fast as my seagate disks. I am really impressed, and will never go back to hard drives on my future computers. Windows boot times were cut in half.

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Great drive, got it on sale. Put W7 pro 64 on it, and it flies. I used my two old seagate 500gb ns drives in raid0 for an apps drive. One ssd is very similiar in performance to my raid0 array. I did a dvd rip test, and both performed equally well. Transfer speeds from one to the other and back were both at 100mb/s consistently. Only gripe is that OCZ didnt include brackets to install the drive into a 3.5" bay. The only other worry, is that i'll hit the write cycle life of the drive and be stuck w/o my OS.

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Bought this drive while it was on sale, ncix shipped super fast which was nice.Got the drive and went through a nightmare of different install scenarios and installed in two different systems. Drive keeps corrupting my install of Windows 7, these drives are shipped with a version of firmware (1.42) which is not even official yet, the current version is 1.41.I now have to pay to ship this back to OCZ for a replacement and be without the drive for at least another week. Check out the OCZ support forms and you will see a bunch of others in the same boat

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SSD drives are a noticeable speed boost over other forms of upgrading. Using this drive for OS and gaming programs. Load times are extremely fast.

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Although SSD is expensive it provides a great value in system performance boost. Faster processor(s), more and faster RAM, and a better system board can certainly increase system performance, but the sheer

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If you are determined to get an SSD, and have economical constraints, this drive is perfect. It's not the fastest but it sure is the best per GB cost of the SSD's for the speed that you are getting.

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It is small, it is fast, excellent product, the only bad thing is the price, but if you can afforted I recommend that you buy it, I hope this one last longer than the spinning disk HD.

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Forget RAM, spend the $ on an SSD HD and you'll be better off. Sooo much faster than a 10K speed hard drive, I felt like I had a new PC. Do some looking around read about the differences, but this was a great price, and increased performance by a significant amount.

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I bought this drive and for the first week it ran excellent and was very fast. However, soon it stopped being recognized in the BIOS and I could not boot to it every time. The problem got progressively worse until It finally would not work at all and I had to RMA. We'll see how the new drive works.

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very fast, 50% to 150% from factory installed laptop hard drive. Less power, longer laptop life. Recommend everyone who 1) needs little space i.e. office user or 2) can manage multiple drives properly get one for an operating system drive. Don't expect immediate compatibility without an operating system reload and proper partition offset. This drive still requires tech knowledge. Still costly, not only high price but instability in pricing across the board.

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This drive is fast. The specs made it as fast as other drives that cost $80 more. Now for some reason, the drive is more expensive. This drive increased my windows 7 experience value from 5.9 to 7.3. programs load fast. windows loads fast. what more could you want. I do recommend reading some forums on improving the way Windows uses the drive. It will make your system faster and the drive last longer.

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The drive is worth the money. I put Windows 7 and Office on the OCZ Solid State Drive and everything else on a standard hard drive. Boot time is like 45sec and shut down is very fast as well. When I open internet explorer or other application on the OCZ drive it pops right up with no load time at all, its like it was already open. Even the applications running on the standard hard drive open manybe 20% faster. I cannot wait to buy another one for my data.