OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD2-2VTX50G 2.5" MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

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Really rapid, and the set up was basically "plug and play." I did a fresh set up as my OS drive in a desktop, and Windows 7 enabled trim automatically, but I manually turned off disk defragmentation as advised. Came with 3.five" adapter which match nicely. Value per GB is higher, but if the touted reliability ends up coming accurate, then this will have paid for itself 10 instances more than. Installed this soon after two dead 150Gb raptors in significantly less than 2 years. For those who game, I game frequently (L4D2, CS:S) and the only noticeable difference is level loading time is considerably decreased. This is my initially "go" with SSD to do reliability testing. The speed is a no brainer, but to date, reliability of the SSD marketplace appears questionable, with notable exceptions such as Intel and OCZ, who even have had their difficulties. At this cost point even though, I would expect superior reliability over the speed advantages... what's the point of obtaining a quick vehicle if it plans to explode in your driveway at any provided moment?

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It is like evening and day with the new Challenging drive. I can now press the button on the monitor and the laptop at the exact same time and the personal computer is ready for my password just before my screen is prepared. none so far. Even the price tag isnt a con when you look at the raise in efficiency. I am running an old dell with a 6300 core2duo 1.86Ghz with two gig of ram and win 7 64 premium and it seems more quickly than any of the new quad core's and i7 that i have played with in stores. Ive never ever written a evaluation before, but I was so impressed I had to take the time.

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Fast! Size is just fine for Win 7 Pro 64-bit, some programs, and a couple games (yeah, Mass Effect II AND STARCRAFT II). See Other thoughts for tweaking Price per Gb is higher, but the speed is entirely worth it. Tweaking it so it performs at peak functionality requires some research and effort. Allow AHCI in your mobo...if you dont, then you will not get all the speed.

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Unbelievable overall performance - utilized it as an ubuntu boot drive - boot up in about five seconds. Then utilised it in Windows 7 as a information drive to run VMWare and house vmware images - exceeded my expectations in speed Died soon after two weeks As usual Newegg has a excellent return policy (which is why I usually shop here) so I'll get one more a single - its a new solution so I'm cutting OCZ some slack Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are really sorry for the challenge. Your replacement drive should function out fine. If we can be of any aid, please check out our support forums at the hyperlink below and post in the flash/SSD section for help.Thank youExternal Hyperlink(s): OCZ Assistance Forums|

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Extremely Fast - Quite Dependable Capacity I bought this for a rig about 8 months ago and wanted to update the assessment. The drive is nonetheless embarrassingly quickly and has under no circumstances had a hiccup. Win7 64 loads in beneath 30 seconds from button push to internet browser with my residence web page open.

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Amazing speed. RAID monster. Good two.5 to 3.5 drive adapter. 7.9 out of 7.9 Windows Knowledge Index. At this price tag, I expected a high quality SATA cable, but none had been included. OCZ has no image utility for SSD's drives and no utility to realign files along the 4K partition sectors. Use yet another drive to make periodic backups of this drive. Think about wiper.exe if you are utilizing Windows XP (no TRIM).

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Really rapid OS/Boot drive with the iops to make your Windows super responsive. Top notch controller and the extra over provisioning enable the drive with self upkeep to hold it running at finest performance. Thats worth a handful of GB to me.Ocz is TOPS in customer service. Ocz + NewEgg = Win! The Vertex 3 will be out next month...:( You can't get a better boot drive anyware for 贄.

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This issue is awesome. It's completely silent and particularly rapid.I installed Windows 7 Pro in 23 minutes, then I tweaked the OS as per the tips found in the OCZ forum. It took significantly less than one hour to load and update every little thing.My Pc powers up and loads windows in about ten seconds and most of that time is taken by the POST course of action. The Cons are low capacity and high prcie, but the gains in speed make up for this in my book. My new gaming box:GA-890FXA-UD7Phenom x6 1090T4GB OCZ DDR3 1600OCZ Vertex2 SSDAsus HD5970Thermaltake 850W PSUKoolance Exos 2.5Koolance waterblocks (CPU, MB, GPU)Lian Li Pc-A05NA

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Great drive, quick drive...fine for most users. This model has substantially lower seq. writes when dealing with compressed information (Movies, music, and pictures) and lower IOPs than it did 3 months ago. This is because it now uses new 25nm nand chips. This is not the very same product as last year but it has the very same model quantity. Manufacturer Response:Hello, any buyer that may well have concerns about their drive is encouraged to call our support manager at 鷘) 733-8400, ext 206, so we could address them. We want just about every client to be delighted with their buy and we will be happy to assist you. Thank you

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Bout time we upgraded from mechanical drives! Quicker than you could ever believe. Not user friendly. Takes some time and effort to get its full prospective but hey even at half potential its quicker than a disk nicely worth the income. dont waste your time with some less expensive company

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Rapidly N/A Did total win7 set up in significantly less than an hour... I left it so I do not know the exact time =/

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Incredibly fast, as anticipated from benchmarks (love the seek instances). Silent. Cool. Absolutely nothing to report. Has been working fine for the previous eight months or so because I bought it. Using it in a desktop develop, so absolutely nothing to report about power consumption. Comes with a 3.five" to 2.five" adapter which is wonderful. In windows, make positive the SATA port is set to AHCI to get the highest speed.

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Great drive! There is nothign genuinely bad to say about it. This was my initially SSD drive, there was a direct plug and play, no need to have to update firmware, compatable with Win 7 Pro (x86, x64) and XP Pro with certainly no troubles. Blazing rapid! Seems like almost everything is working good! Crossing my fingers to hope it lasts! My old setup was a 2 WD Raptors in a RAID , the WEI rated it at five.6, following my ssd addition/swap, I am up to 7.two on WIN7 Pro - 32bit. Just bought the I7 920 and can not WAIT to see this technique operating with this SSD!

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Rapid, allegedly reliable. Negative buyer support, poorly documented.I've had this drive fail 4 instances. In distinct systems, below light use. I will need speed, and not hardcore endurance. However, this drive can't even stand up to light use.I am amazed -- the replacement I got for the third failure blew out inside 3 days of putting in it. Anytime power is removed, the data disappears (go figure, they do make RAM soon after all). A quick process verify reveals the SN stamped on the casing by OCZ does not match internal serial number. They sent me a REFURB. Definitely unacceptable -- and in this case, naturally they didn't FURB it adequate this time close to. I wish Newegg would take it back -- OCZ is refusing to even email me back at this point. If a manufacturer skimps on a warranty, can I return to Newegg? I wish! Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are really sorry for uncommon string of problems that you have had. Please make contact with our help manager at 鷘) 733-8400, ext 206. We will be pleased to help you. Thank you

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Rapid, large (relatively speaking). Set up is fairly straightforward if / as soon as you figure it out. Be sure to get the partition(s) aligned accurately. Dead immediately after two months of extremely light use, no physical jarring or shock, and no exposure to extreme circumstances of any sort. Definitely flabbergasted by this.OCZ wants to do a "cross ship" RMA where they don't just get my credit card info, they charge me for the item. At some unspecified future time, I may get the dollars back.Oh and I front the expense for shipping.No challenging drive. Data gone. And I'm down 2x the cost, plus an additional บ for shipping? Thanks OCZ. When I lastly get the replacement in the mail, I'll feel like a satisfied customer :)NOT :(ALSO as an unrelated comment, OCZ does not offer you tech assistance. They pay tech assistance people today to browse their forums. That is their notion of tech support. Be ready to wade by way of lots of irrelevant data to discover what you will need. "Send me a private message for help" is NOT client help, guys.And watch out for external links on the forums as well. A couple of lead to sketchy sites -- viruses abounds.

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Rapidly. Saves power. These things fail - some fail in a day, some a week, or month, or year. But they fail, with out a doubt, just about every time. Poor high quality handle, undesirable design, undesirable help, negative documentation. What do you anticipate from a organization whose concept of customer service is paying two guys to moderate an on the internet forum?I have been by 3 of these. Every single one particular just fails -- without having any provocation, under LIGHT use. 1 was DOA, 1 died inside a week, and this final one took about 4 months -- but it died all the similar. This time, whilst I'm out of town, unable to do anything about it for a week. I am attempting to get them to give me a distinct model or, even far better, dollars back. I doubt I'll get some money, but it would be fantastic if they bothered to send me a drive from a line that has much better style or top quality handle -- assuming any of their drives do. I feel I'll bleed some money and lay down for an Intel as an alternative.

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Drive is good, performs incredibly properly. It's nice to have a nice quiet drive compared to my older Velociraptor. The bracket was a hair as well wide to fit into the drive cage of my Antec case and the screw holes were mis-aligned forcing the dive far to the front and producing for some tricky wiring. Its kind of sitting there loosely secured but I'm not too worried about it since my case doesn't get moved. Sort of disappointed that two days following I purchased this the 60gb version showed up for บ more affordable

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ups three day got right here next dayit's better than my SUPER TALENT MasterDrive SX SAM28GM25S two.5" 128GB SATA II MLC newegg shipped me 23 months ago in each and every way. you must see the progress bar when i installed steam from one ssd to the other!!! peaked at 228 write not 275(hd tune) maybe i need to tweak it or possibly hd tune tested outside the parameters that benched to that outcome? it is still stupid swift all the latencies are clearly quicker then the masterdrive. if you live south of memphis as i do the ups three day may possibly be subsequent day for you. when newegg ships to me from memphis i usually get it subsequent day!!

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Excellent SSD's. Wicked quick for "budget" drives. Two in Raid is extraordinary. The added 40 Mb/s sequential read speeds and 20 Gb's are worth the บ more than the Vertex Turbo 30Gb none comes with 3.five" adapter bracket which is a massive plus.

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So now it's March 5th and I've reformatted the drive at least 50 occasions. I've reinstalled windows 7 64-bit about 25 or 30 instances, reinstalled Ubuntu ten.ten six or 7 occasions, and reinstalled Windows XP Pro about ten occasions. I've also defragged the drive 20 or so instances and encrypted the drive working with Whole Disk Encryption by means of TrueCrypt 7.0a on Windows 7 64-bit three times.I've applied NewsBin Pro on the SSD to download a great number of hundreds of thousands of usenet binary segments, installed Globe of Warcraft, and a few games employing Steam, and installed Unreal Tournament 2004.With all of this activity, most of which was absolutely unnecessary (such as the quite a few repeated defrags) I can say that now, practically four months considering that receiving the drive, I've not had a single concern of any kind whatsoever. Scans reveal no undesirable sectors, no reduction in overall efficiency (some, but quite, incredibly negligible) and overall the SSD nonetheless reports that it is in "excellent" situation, thinking of the abuse I've place it through. Not a single con at this time... Don't even hesitate to get SSD, specifically this brand. Next time about I am surely purchasing the biggest one I can afford.

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Extremely Quick.Low Temps.Dead Silent.OCZ Forums are the best source for any type of help, I recommend absolutely everyone interested in there drives to go there first and read up on the drives for at least a couple days. Not for the Tech Savvy.Is not user friendly when it comes to finding max functionality, and maintanence from it.Minus 1 egg for this truth. Highly advised. But only for The enthusiast. I also have the Agility 2 just as great !!

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Loaded Windows 7 in about 12 minutes on my rig. Rapidly, but not as impressive during my day to day use as I imagined it would be. None so far Looking back, I would almost certainly wait until the capacity increases versus price tag. 50GB isn't that significantly and the speed isn't as wonderful or outstanding as I've read or been lead to believe. Not sorry I purchased it but could have waited a although longer.

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Incredibly quickly when setup effectively. Wasn't secure erased on arrival. In my case it required a safe erase appropriate away to extract the total speed out of this. I backed up my image to it correct away and the write speed was a tiny more than half what it must have been. Decided to secure erase with gparted live usb and following imaging once again my drive went at complete speed. So my advice is secure erase it upon arrival then image or install.

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This is my second OCZ drive. I chose this over the Corsair since OCZ has fairly very good forums. Conflicting info is prevalent but you can make an informed decision. "There are no rebates accessible for this present at this time."Correct from OCZ's rebate site. I guess I'm out ษ. Yes, I typed in the correct offer code with and devoid of the dash, the individual component quantity, every little thing. Yes, I am working with the link on this page ideal now. I also have the Vertex II 60GB Specific Edition, and a different "slower" 50GB - it doesnt even get WARM. Aligned to 64 from default 63, speeds are about 90% as advertized in SATA/IDE mode (AHCI is a joke, dont bother with it unless you're hotswapping drives, seriously) Manufacturer Response:Hello, we will be happy to assist you with your rebate. We will get in touch with the rebate house and get this straightened out. Please email rebates@ocztechnology.com and incorporate your full name, address, item, and date and place of acquire.Thank you

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Bragging rights I guess I can say I have a SSD. High Price tag Low Capacity Don't waste your time and dollars. No true noticable preformance improve, not substantially difference on wake up from hibernation, boot time nothing. For the dollars you could get a couple terabyte array. Wow what a disappointment. Win 7 ultimate 64 bit clean install. WEI did increase from 5.9 to 7.five since of ssd. all WEI score had been currently 7.7 and 7.8 except principal hd score but I just don't see the preformance enhance. There is some but it aint 2 C notes worth. This is the 1st item I have purchased from newegg that I am essentially thinking of returning for a refund. And i have been doing business with them for a incredibly extended time Manufacturer Response:Hello, it sounds as even though you have a problem (with the drive or your system) if you notice no enhance in performance. Please take a look at our Flash/SSD forums at the link below and post for assistance. We will be content to enable.Thank youExternal Link(s): OCZ Assistance Forums|