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

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Great SSD drive. Super quickly speed. Outstanding Tech help. They aren't sending me no cost ones to put to the ultimate test. I am a super enthusiast of these SSD drives. These are wonderful drives that deliver super speed. If you want to revive your older SATA HDD laptop or desktop, this is the drive for you. The OCZ Tech assistance team is beyond any other that I have dealt with. When you have a question, they in fact e mail you back and your reply comes from a actual individual answering your precise query.Retain in mind, there are a couple of tweaks that need to be performed soon after OS installation on these drives to take full advantage of the overall performance. Once you have a fresh install of your OS and all your apps loaded, do a Complete IMAGE BACKUP. Lets face it, these drives are produced around very new engineering and they do fail when in awhile without having discover as any HDD can and will. If your SSD fails, request RMA from OCZ and they will take care of you. Don't hesitate to acquire, you will be AMAZED by the performance of this SSD.... proven reality, the typical spinning mechanical HDD is a computers greatest bottleneck.

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I posted an earlier critique on this complaining about the low seq write and lower reads than my vertex drives. After enabling NCQ the read speeds are a lot better, the write seq is nevertheless low. Posting this to update the improvement with NCQ turned on. Writes are slower than expected with AS SSD. Although the drives are slower than I expected, the still beat hard drive speeds in Windows. My 2TB hard drive has more rapidly seq writes than these drive in SSD, and my vertex1 drives writes were quicker as nicely. Make confident to allow NCQ if you are running this in raid, or if you controller has that choice, you will get a boost.

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Lightning quickly. Programs load up significantly faster, Firefox is 1 of them. Uses less power and tends to make no noise at all. And fairly substantially no heat. Windows 7 Pro x64 boots in 14 seconds. Makes a great OS boot drive and generally shuts down in a matter of seconds. And the little form with included two.five" bracket is handy. Trim support and even a new firmware 1.10. I know there's much more pros but other individuals have already shared them. None really. ATTO bench revealed the advertised speeds. I've filled the SSD to 70% now and see some degradation in efficiency but that's to be anticipated. Nevertheless more rapidly than my WD Black AALS that failed.

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Quickly. none. Got this on sale but ssd prices are nonetheless also high.

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Quite fast the reason your capped at 200 is incredibly likely due to the chipset just about all SSD's start off out really fast. Then they slow down more than time. Despite the fact that they're nonetheless extremely rapid only a benchmark would notice a difference . Wonderful drives but nonetheless pricey while dropping. If you bought one particular you actually don't care that a lot about price tag its about overall performance.

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Simple install. Lightning rapidly Every little thing. Almost creepy how rapid this is compared to a regular HDD. Im not finding the numbers I expected employing xbench on my brand new 17" i5 Macbook Pro. (Never got anything above 200 mb/s) I have a new 17" Macbook Pro i5 with 4gb ram. Stock 5400 rpm drive got a score of about ඄" making use of xbench. The new SSD gets an incredible score of 藲". Extremely amazing! Read max was 194 mb/s. Write max was 187 mb/s.I am disappointed that Im not finding the 285뢫 mb/s numbers that are advertised. I was hoping for something around 230-240 mb/s Thus my four egg score. I still in search for something I may have done wrong or anything that needs to be set properly, in order for it to get the bigger numbers.

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I have this drive for a month now and it's really fast. So far it functions wonderful! none Wish I had bought a larger drive.

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-Very quick, One of the fastest MLC's.-place in three year old laptop. boots up in below 25 seconds. (XP-Media Center Edition)- the overall performance it provides essentially lets the cpu fan take breaks. its wonderful. it employed to run all the time. now the cpu usage its constantly underneath 10 percent idle and underneath 40 percent when working with internet browers and loading programs.- The only noise that it mow makes is when the cpu fan does turn on or when i load a cd. other than that, it is fully silent! :) -Value per GB, but if your willing to front the money, then its worth every single penny. -thats all First time with ssd's. Decided to go with one of the greatest out there, for now. They are quite modest and it was shocking to me. I am not disappointed with it and if you want to spend excellent money on a hard drive that will do wonders, then buy this 1. Or if you want far more space, go with the 100GB version of the OCZ V2

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Quicker than a standalone mechanical drive.Smaller form aspect. Lacks advertised performance.Partition aligned, hdparm reporting 𞳰 MB/s below Linux. Would not acquire once more.Assistance forums overwhelmed and disorganized.

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Insanely rapid, created me not want to use something with a spinning disc ever again. Little storageHigh priced I was incredibly bummed about the new Macbook Pro 13 staying a C2D as I wanted to buy one as soon as the refresh landed. I decided to just go ahead and do it but add an SSD and put the stock 250gb in an optical bay enclosure. I have definitely no regrets. The issue feels like a corvette and my quad core raid 'd hackintosh (w/hdds) feels like a pinto. The factor boots in about 6 seconds total. It's just ridiculous.

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Rapid, reasonably huge, blah blah. Very first drive dead following a month. Receiving tech assistance is impossible. OCZ has the audacity to tell us they have the ideal service in the industry when there is no telephone or e mail speak to whatsoever. Want support? Forget it! Just go to their forum and try to wade through it till you get some support.RMA process is absurdly hands-off and difficult. Not to mention they refuse to advance RMA drives and won't help you arrange any element of the RMA.Replacement shipped straight from Taiwan and guess what? Quality control FAILS again. How? The darn SCREW HOLES are misaligned. Will not mount in drive caddy. Main fail for OCZ. I have relied on OCZ RAM for a lot of desktop PCs for many years. This is just an example of the way this organization is going downhill quick. I refuse to believe that this will ever get superior, and warn everybody away from these merchandise.Oh, and for the OCZ troll who's going to post here telling me how sorry you are, my RMA number is EU120243. Thanks for sending me a defective replacement. Fantastic client satisfaction approach! Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are incredibly sorry for the difficulty. Please contact our assistance manager at 鷘) 733-8400, ext 206. We will be happy to help you.Thank you

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Crazy quickly! I was reading by way of a bunch of SSD tweaks before I received mine but when I set it up, I identified there was no want. How can you get any more rapidly than "instant" lol. I suppose they could place at least a picture showing how the drive is supposed to be orientated onto the 3.5" mounting bracket, as I initially guessed incorrect, but that's no big deal. At least it comes with one particular. I double-click on my game icons, and I'm already playing before even letting off the mouse-click xD

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Average sustained R/W speeds are extraordinary. For the cost, you can't beat this efficiency. Raid these drives and you get a huge efficiency enhance. none These drives do exactly what they are intended to do. Soon after getting owned these, the Vertex 30 GB, and Vertex 2 120 GB models, I can surely say that if you can afford the larger versions then you ought to get them. Otherwise you will end up getting numerous pairs like me.

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rapidly, more rapidly, fastest. These items fly. five eggs. Price, but this is a typical complaint of all computer parts. About a month immediately after I bought mine the 60 gig versions came out for less $... darn it! Purchased two of these final year. Could only get 𞴾 read/𞳸 write in RAID on my AM3 chipset.Lately switched to Sandy Bridge, secure erased em' and dropped them back into RAID and I am obtaining Read/Write speeds of 560릴. Amazingly quickly!

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All ssds are created in raw state in multiples 32 64 96 128 and so on. Tech support at OCZ recc working with the 50, 100 200 versions for better space and extended term reliability. This is 50 G it has 14 G offered for the controller to use to remap the drive as the NANDS go bad for higher lengthy term reliability than the 60G version (which has only 4 g ). So its a promoting factor 50G or 60G same speed but the 50 WILL Final LONGER. All NANDS will GO Undesirable its a question of WHEN not if. This OCZ product has the sandforce 1200 controller (see sandforce.com). IT utilizes very tiny electricity and is cool to the touch and silent. I think the greatest way to use this is to make sure that ACHI is turned on in the bios and then install windows on this drive. I was not in a position to install windows and make this bootable till I disconnected other tricky drives when installing windows (in my technique)My recommendation use Windows 7 64 bit and four G of memory. Windows disk overall performance rates = 7.5, and loads in ten se Much more PROs: comes with a 3.five inch mounting bracket. Is so low power (whole method even though typing on the internet with monitor and ethernet power adaptor is making use of 75 watts of electrical energy according to my kill a watt power meter - and speakers are turned off-) see beneath:FOR extra performance I turned off virtual memory, auto defragging, and set my difficult drive to never powerdown, and so on (see ocz forums) Working with the internet with a 20.four inch monitor 񢃀x1200 syncmaster 204B) and Asus M489gtd pro/usb3 Amd 635 CPU Ɣ cores no level three cache) four gig 1.35v gskill ram sunbeamtech core-speak to freezer with low speed fan enermax pro82+ 385W power provide and no tough drive in a 9 year old mid atx case ( might move stuff into my antec 300 case) I say acquire this vertex2 or a larger one particular and use an external difficult drive for standard backups.Newegg Rocks

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Decided to get this for my new computer construct for booting. I should say its very quickly on boot up with windows 7. It gave me a 7.4 win experience information xfer rate. I like it. Initially time using SSD. Quite pleased I went with it. none except I think newegg is skimping on packaging. Got this in a tiny yellow single bubble rap envelope. Was concerned but my drive operates.

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Simple install, and trim is auto enabled with W7Raid setup, so unbelievable speedsComes with 3.5" brackets Of course price, but if you're looking at SSD's price isnt truly an problem. Even although it comes with the brackets, the holes on the brackets dont match up with the tooless rails that I have for my Coolermaster Storm case, so I had to improvise. Don't forget to tweak your simple settings, like turning off defrag, and changing the power settings to never ever let the pc go to sleep. I located that if it does go to sleep particular software has difficulty loading as soon as it comes back on.

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Fast and responsive with no stuttering what so ever! 46.6gb after format. Attainable future firmware update may well no cost up some more space from what I have read about this Sandforce SF-1200 controller. Hardware AES 128 bit encryption. DuraClass technology delivers world class reliability, endurance, performance and power consumption. 8 channels on chip over four channels of the Indilinx Barefoot controller for a lot more bandwidth potential. ECC protection and RAISE provides the protection and reliability of RAID on a single drive with no the significant write overhead. None Only ů far more than the Agility two like shipping! Custom one particular of a sort SF-1200 firmware. OCZ leading SSD Sandforce technologies! Grab one particular before there sold out!

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Super rapidly score a 7.8 in windows expertise index.Little light runs cool and silent.Comes with an adapter plate(I didn't need to have it,my case has mounting holes for it.Lancool pck-58)Lian Li case.Supports trim garbage collection not necessary as in previous drives.Pretty significantly one particular of the fastest mainstream drives produced.Blows intel away.Don't even believe about intel with this infant on the industry unless you want last years tech.three year warranty and excellant tech help more than to the ocz forums. Ssd's will shed there initial snappiness following all the sectors have been written too.You only need to erase the disc and begin more than for the original speed.As long as you don't get this factor and run several benchmarking programs,you shouldn't have any problem with these reported slowdowns.This sandforce drive unlike previous drives cleans itself up automatically. It's a wonderful drive and I'm incredibly happy with it.It is rather high priced,but when you have a fast computer it only makes sense to clear up the tough drive bottleneck.There are other pieces of hardware that should be upgraded initial ie don't get this if you're a gamer and require a greater video card.

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IT DID WORK5 HOURS FOR BACKUP FOR MY 100GB KOTEX 2 THAT JUST DIED A MINUTE AGO--BACKUP DIDNT LAST Long Enough TO SUMITT rma TICKET-GET Prepared FOR SOME Real B/S RMA Method.. One LASTED Virtually 2 MONTHS--THEN BSOD---Laptop or computer HAD A REBOOT---THEN MESSAGE PLEASE INCERT NEDIA AND PRESS ENTER111111LOOKED IN BIOS ----NO SSD---Referred to as OCZ TECH Assistance---THEY TOLD ME IT DIED---DUH!!!!!----RMA ONLY Via On the internet Support TICKET---OH I FORGOT I Bought A 50 GB VERTEX2 FOR BACKUP IT WORKED A TOTAL 6 HOURS--THEN DIES THE Really Exact same WAY THE 100 GB DIED---ITS TIME FOR SOME AMERICAN Made Merchandise---THESE ARE PURE JUNK--IF YOU HAVE One particular ITS NOT THE MATTER OF WILL IT DIE--ITS WHEN!!!! THEY WILL NOT WITHSTAND A CAT-- 2 OR INTEL --NOWAGILITY A GUY HAD THE Same---OCZ Mentioned TO HIM Very Uncommon THAT 2 DIE AT THE Same TIME---Nicely Right here IS Š.Very same DIE&DIE..Produced IN CHINA. Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are quite sorry for the issues. Our assistance staff will see that are well taken care of.Thank youExternal Link(s): OCZ Assistance Page|

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Rapidly and trustworthy (So far) None at this time This thing flies. Brought my boot time down to under 30 seconds. A single of the ideal upgrades I ever did.

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Great Product, Painless installation. Fassst!! Mounting bracket was low-cost, but I didnt even know it came with 1! Wonderful item so far. *knock on wood*

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This factor is very quickly. You will discover huge improvements over a mech difficult drive. SSD is the future and the way to go! Two of them died inside the very first month and im on my third 1. I have been operating stable with this one particular for a handful of months now (knock on wood). Had to knock an egg off since of the high failure rate. Good quality Control Any individual!? Some persons may well have an problem with the included mount, i know i did it didnt fit right, but a small jerry rigging did the trick, other than that excellent packaging and it included a nice "my SSD is more quickly" sticker!

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Did you ever wonder exactly where that Computer bottle-neck that kept you from experiencing the full glory of your quad-core CPU or great motherboard and memory? It was the mechanical hard drive. Once you go to an SSD, and specifically the newest OCZ Vertex2, you will By no means go back. My boot instances went from four minutes to 40 seconds. File transfers are instant. I even purchased an OCZ Vertex for a 5 year old personal computer, and it's running Windows 7 flawlessly (and the old laptop or computer's boot time is 30 seconds!!!)If you want to resurrect an older Pc (as long as it has SATAI-II) or you want to encounter to complete prospective of your most up-to-date dream machine, look for an SSD... I did! Are you kidding? This is a paradigm shift in computing. Solid state modifications the game so significantly, even mediocre SSDs are smokin'. As far as cons for the Vertex2? none so far. Buying a Vertex SSD price me 贶, but saved me the price of replacing an whole Computer. I believe I have extended the life of my Pc by one more three-5 years. That's a great investment if you ask me.

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Competitive value. Drive came with three.5" adapter tray. This item did not carry out anywhere close to the advertisde specs. Crystal Disk Mark put speeds in the 190 read and 45 write range utilizing both kinds of test information @ 50 Meg files. This is no greater than the Intel SSD it replaced, except the Intel advertised the Accurate speed of their product. 1 Gig file speeds were slower than the WD Green drive I have. Attempted tests on two distinct onboard controllers (Marvel, Intel) AND my Adaptec 3405. Benchmarking, as always, is a tricky proposition. The manufacturer rates in a lab in great circumstances to maximize bandwidth. I only wanted a drive for pagefile and temp file usage and couldn't get anyplace close. I need to have, and will from now on, go off the other reviewers genuine world testing results.