OCZ Vertex Series 2.5" Solid State SATA II Hard Drive - 60GB

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none dead drive I bought an Agility two drive for a boot drive a month ago. Super rapidly so I thought i would get this for my notebook. DEAD Following dealing with obtaining to do a nightmare firmware upgrade on the agility two drive (the drive has to be a secondary drive or slave - not a principal) I checked and the vertex do not have to be a slave.Newegg will only exchange and not refund income. They ought to have known a thing. If I had known I could not return this for a refund I would not have purchased. DO NOT Acquire.

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This is the most bang for you buck when it comes to SSDs now. If you require much more space for games and big apps....your gonna have to fork more than some more money for a bigger SSDs Do not rely on the rebate. OCZ came via on a single of two SSD rebates. This obtain was rejected. Fortunately the value is reasonably low sufficient with out their so named rebate. Windows 7 prices at 7. in IDE mode and 7.3 in AHCI

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Uncomplicated set up and booting time can\'t be compared to normal 7200rpm HDD. It's just merely lightning rapid and low heat. Unless you somewhat skilled in hardware installation, this SSD does not come with any variety of set up instruction or CD. I am so pleased with this a single, I may just get yet another for my other notebook.

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This thing is lightning rapidly on boot up instances. This is my very first practical experience with this kind of drive. I have only had my OS On it for a few days...and i am completly impressed by the speed Other than its a small pricey for the 60Gigs but in the end you will love it anyway :)

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Ultimately took the SSD plunge since the value was down to what I was prepared to spend. Purchased 4 of these, put them in an SNT enclosure Ɣ drives fit in a single 5.25" bay). I place them in RAID , and obtaining a tad under 700MB/sec reads, and this is from the onboard Intel ICH9R controller (Abit IX38 QuadGT mobo). This is the ideal upgrade I've ever accomplished for my Computer. I can't say adequate very good issues about the difference in overall performance. My preceding C: drive was a pair of WD 150Gb Raptors, and it's night & day difference. Quit hesitating and purchase a couple of these already. If you're using a motherboard intel raid chipset, you'll likely come close to topping out the overall performance with only three of these. So, shopping for more than 3 is likely a waste unless you need/want the added space. Otherwise, you need to factor in the price of a RAID card if you genuinely want to push the envelope. SSDs are now officially mainstream cost-sensible. If you want to save cash, there is a 30Gb version of this drive that's around a hundred bucks. They also have a Vertex 2 out now, which has a more quickly controller, and is ideal around two hundred. So, choose your price point and jump in!

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Have applied this exact same style drive for my W7 OS for almost a year with no concerns. OCZ seems to be a good corporation completely entrenched in memory sort merchandise so there stuff really should often be on the cutting edge of technologies. This new one I just bought crapped out on me as I was performing a fresh W7 64 Bit install. Now it can't even be seen in bios, and when I place original drive back in to boot up W7, it freezes up on Welcome Screen if this new SSD is plugged in any sata port. Have to get rid of new SSD out of system in order to boot. Began help ticket with OCZ currently as it looks as if I have a lemmon. Absolutely nothing in OCZ forums gave me a clear cut answer and since it won't even show up in bios, or let W7 to boot from a different drive if it's in the technique, looks like it's gonna be going back. Hopefully OCZ will respond soon and I'll update my assessment at that time. With that stated, I have three more of their drives and have never ever had an challenge with them. Issues happen on occassion.. it's how a business responds when you find out what they're truly made of. Time will tell... tick tock tick tock. ;-) Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are very sorry for the issue. Our assistance employees will be with you ASAP. It does sound as though your drive has an issue and the fastest resolution will be to RMA through Newegg, and this is what we would advocate.Thank you

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It's no Sandforce drive, but nonetheless quite rapidly, specially compared to a regular tricky drive. Supports TRIM and newer firmware versions also have background garbage collection (this is valuable if you can't use TRIM, in a RAID array, for instance). Great bang for the buck as far as SSDs go. 3 year warranty. Cost, like all SSDs. But if you want performance, you have to spend for it. Get 215력MBps sequential read/write in CrystalDiskMark. 4k random read/write is 24ቨMBps. But you don't will need benchmarking tools to discover the speed increase, it tends to make practically everything you do on your pc a lot more responsive. OS starts up more quickly, programs load more rapidly, programs install faster, and so on. Surely worth the investment IMO. While you may well check out the newer Vertex 2 or one of OCZ's other Sandforce based drives. They're even more rapidly and not that a lot more high-priced.

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Adding to my preceding assessment below, I just received a replacemen inside 48 hours at Tucson Arizona USA immediately after they shipped it from Taiwan. They shipped it out as soon as they received my RMAed SSD at their California location. I was stunned how rapid the shipping was. Taiwan to Tucson in 2 days?! How would they do that truly, when they could have applied a slower shipping to cut corners? Every little thing went smoothly from the initial e mail exchanges till receiving the replacement. OCZ didn't ask me any hard questions whether it was my fault or not, and so forth. Though it was my fault to brick the SSD to go from FW 1.4 to 1.five, they simply gave me a replacement following I submitted the answers on the net to their queries. My only expense during the RMA procedure was to ship it to California. I don't know if I got a unique remedy, or this is the norm in their customer service. Whichever it is, OCZ got my organization once again in the future. OCZ, please keep your effective buyer service. Thanks. The firmware of the SSD is truly tedious and pain in the neck. It requires bricking the SSD if you are not careful or if you are not paying total focus. I wouldn't say it's hard. It's just tedious.

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More quickly than any HDD on the planet. Inexpensive and dependable!! Not the most recent and greatest technology Already replacing with INTEL 25-M 120GB by NewEgg of course.

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This drive is phenomenally quickly- I truly cant even place it into words. Soon after reading the other critiques, I was expecting alot, but right after finding my drive up and running, I was just dumbfounded. This is more quickly than any other SSD I've had; I especially liked the comparison of a different user from boot time to a webpage. Thoughts you my Bios takes 15 seconds to load, old HDD and new SSD alike, the total time to get from power button to yahoo finance (not my homepage btw) on my old drive was 1ᛈ and on this new one- you won't even believe me right here and I did it like 4 times to confirm- was...... 32 seconds. That's 17 seconds from windows start off to web browsing! Near instant program launches. Pricing is outstanding, write occasions are lightning, and the OCZ forums are expansive and wealthy with devoted techies, an absolute delight to review and a essential tool for initial install. Don't hesitate! there is no way you could POSSIBLY be disappointed. 7.1 on ExperienceIndex. Initial install of Win7 64 was a beast! I truly had difficulty with this and it surely is not PnP as one more noted. I had to restart my install method twice, and finally I thought it was frozen on "setup will resume after your computer restarts" and so I turned it off. But on reboot it shot me right to the desktop right after establishing a username! All in all, it took over an hour for install but I could genuinely care less for this overall performance. FYI- you don't require to format or do anything except select the "unallocated space" when installing Win7- it does anything on its personal, and the firmware really should be entirely very good to go out-of-box for at least some time. Once again, the forums had been enormously beneficial right here, with posts both from OCZ staff and enthusiasts. The packaging was wonderful on this and produced me feel like I was obtaining anything special. The silence in my case is quite surprising; I never ever thought my HDD made considerably noise. Get a very good 2.five" to three.5" mount for this to put in your tower, I recommend the Rosewill that stacks two drives in one slot, which is sleek and only บ bucks, despite its so-so install course of action. These drives are usually not touted to last as lengthy as regular HDD's, but the tech is finding greater all the time, and there are a selection of ways to prolong their life- OCZ also has an excellent mean time ahead of failure (MTBF) relative to its competitors, so acquire with confidence. This is likely the greatest tech purchase I have ever created, and ranks up there as one of my favorite buys ever- satisfying across all sectors. I will post back if I encounter any problems, but these little drives are normally perfectly reliable once up and running. Cheers OCZ!

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Extremely straightforward to install, very quickly efficiency, no complications working with in late 2009 plastic unibody macbook. Program boots in five seconds now, applications don't bounce a lot more than twice when loading even if i load all of them at the very same time (ㅌ apps like firefox, photoshop five, itunes, adium, xcode). Updating the firmware (which you will want to do) was not as simple from a Mac when i purchased it so i applied a windows machine (its the machine that matters, not the OS it is running).

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The speed is primarily above common, and largely compatible with windows 7. 60 GB system relies on other hard drives: OS and applications on the vertex; data storage on other drives. OCZ website delivers supportive guides. Lack of substantive and orderly guide; nor are there solid, finest practices in the use of 60 GB. Web site is not user-friendly and repetitive. Worse, the internet site's directions are confusing and practically impossible to comply with. Stacks of info devoid of verification and maintaining one structured guide makes it painful to pay a visit to OCZ's web site. My rebate was denied regardless of following instructions. Bought it on 1-19-2010 with rebate and pdf symbol advertised for ฮ. Weeks later, immediately after producing sure it worked, I download the pdf: it stated: 1-21-2010 to 1-31-2010 as range. Seems unfair. Given the decision once again, I would have bought a 1.five TB tough drive. OCZ recommends NOT to optimize their drive. Result? My two.5 drives present even, steady speed that is more productive than my Vertex SSD. As well quite a few stalling and waiting for a thing to occur over my ownership period. Recommendation: WAIT. Give this technologies one more year for other vendors to provide solid help for optimizating and preventing quirky delays. No ReadyBoost? Incrediblly true...as well early for most customers. Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are sorry for any confusion, and your rebate situation. Rebate gives alter typically, and Newegg keeps a complete list of all existing and previous delivers that can be downloaded at the link beneath. We recommend downloading your rebate from at time of obtain. Using the wrong type will trigger a denial. We will be pleased to assist you with re-filing your rebate. Please e-mail reabtes@ocztechnology.com and contain your full name, address, item, and spot and date of buy. Include a short explanation and we will get back to you.External Link(s): Newegg Rebate Center|

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program boots windows 7 in 20 seconds following post... Enormous upgrade from a mechanical drive, simply the greatest upgrade for a desktop (i was employing a 150gb raptor 10k rpm) applications launch practically quickly. OCZ shipped it with firmware 1.five which supports trim. $ per GB , speeds are not as high as newer ocz drives with the sandforce controller

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WOW.....this drive is insane!!!!! I had a raid array with 5 WD raptors and this lil guy out performs that array! Booting from power on to house screen and every little thing loaded in 18 seconds with Win 7 Ultimate.....Only thing left to do is obtain a 2nd drive and run a raid ! Had to go on the OCZ forum and run a SSD tweaker utility and turn defrag off, Defragging these drive will kill them! Not a huge hassle to do these two issues, but if you dont you will either kill the drive or be confused as to why its not blazing quick. Just make certain u do your analysis ahead of adding a SSD

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I'm impressed with OCZ client assistance response. I had an situation with the firmware update, the SSD became unresponsive, not getting recognized by BIOS. I emailed OCZ, they responded in less than 24 hours. I exchanged emailed 2-3 times, each and every time they responded inside 24 hours, and it was right away after the Xmas weekend, which I would have understood even if it took OCZ slightly longer. This level of customer service tends to make me want to come back for their goods in future. I like what they did for me. Moreover OCZ makes SSD firmware revisions usually. Also OCZ assistance forum appears really active and provides you great information when you try to trouble shoot troubles with the SSDs on your own. Even though not necessarily tough, the firmware updates are nevertheless tedious to accomplish. It's a hassle, but on the flipside OCZ's frequent firmware revisions do improve the SSDs you own. So it's a con and pro. I wish OCZ can make FW update less difficult & much less risky via computer software automation of some sort? Present strategy usually requires danger of bricking. If OCZ maintains the present level of customer assistance, and hardware quality manage, I would preserve hold coming back to obtain their goods. I have bought numerous SSDs, power provide, & other merchandise from OCZ in the past, and they've all performed nicely. The mail-in rebate process for SSDs had been slow & took about 2 months to acquire, unless you pay a couple of dollars for rush-delivery selection for delivery within a week. I did each approaches, snail & rush.

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Came with 1.five FW so no update needed. Incredibly rapidly, straightforward to install. OCZ forum has very good directions for some minor tweaks at install. It took me 10 minutes after Win7࿠) loaded to do all the functionality adjustments described at the forum. Didn't come with mounting hardware for use in desktop Computer. Extremely pleased with the drive, following OS and other applications nonetheless have 45 GB of space.

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Maybe I'll locate out when the replacement arrives. Wasted a lot of time considering that it appears to work at very first. But the drive crashes just about every single time immediately after a few minutes of attempting to copy my information over to it. I'm certain OCZ would want to me waste *my* time on a extended help contact or reflashing the drive. Too bad, my time is beneficial as well. RMA. Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are sorry that you have had problems. If for some purpose your issues are not resolved, please go to our assistance forums at the link beneath and post in the SSD section. We will be satisfied to help you.Thank youExternal Link(s): OCZ Assistance Forums|

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Extremely Incredibly rapidly. Applications open in a snap. General functionality of the laptop feels improved. The mac edition just appears to be one more way that apple tries to squeeze dollars out of individuals. I have the original white macbook; THE Typical SSD WILL Function IN A MAC. My boot time for some explanation has truly improved from 40 seconds to 55 seconds. I only cloned my old drive to the new a single; A fresh format will hopefully repair this. Everything else is great. All I had to do was plug the drive into a two.five sata to USB adapter, convert the drive to mac (journaled) format, and use super duper (it's totally free!) to clone the drives. Then just put the new tough drive in and anything booted up as it need to. Got this on the low-cost for 贘 on shellshocker. I am not holding my breath for the ษ mail-in-rebate, but if it does come that will make this drive an insane deal.

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Comes with a sticker which reads "My SSD is faster thaan your HDD!" -which is an UNDERSTATEMENT. Installed Ubuntu Ultimate edition onto it in minutes, boots up ridiculously rapidly. Will wait to see if anything at all takes place down the line. None to consider of. Prices on SSDs will drop as time goes on, I hope to someday get a drive twice this size for the similar quantity which I paid sometime in the future.

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Was stinking rapidly.Used low power, heat.E-peen. Price tag/GB ratioLots of setup (firmware, optimization, and so forth.)Oh yeah, it died immediately after 5 months (โ/month subscription?) I was aware of their brief lifespan just before I 'took the plunge'. I did almost everything I was supposed to because I wanted at least a year out of it.I haven't lost any information except for a .txt on the desktop, mainly because I knew the risks and had all my progs/docs/games on regular drives type of defeating the complete benefit anyhow. On the other hand, I didn't take replacement hassle seriously sufficient, and I now have to either wait for (forums indicate that could be up to 7 months!) or get a new OS boot drive. Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are incredibly sorry for the issue. Please check out the link beneath an generate a help ticket to get in touch with our assistance staff. We will be satisfied to help you with a replacement unit.Thank youExternal Link(s): OCZ Help Page|

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Windows 7 boots about 20 seconds more quickly, after logged in and loading apps it runs a lot more rapidly nevertheless. Running something that accesses the tough drive is noticeably faster. The latest OCZ firmware supports TRIM and so on Vista and Win7 you don't require to mess with WIPER or the like, just run the drive like normal - although you don't will need to (and shouldn't) run defragmenter utilities.SSDs are silent and generate extremely tiny heat. If this is the only drive in your program, you'll notice the utter lack of 'wiki wiki' motor noises.SSDs are good as OS/app drives. For now, store your mp3s, films, and so on on a tricky drive. Doesn't incorporate two.five-ɯ.5 brackets, but it doesn't considerably matter due to the fact SSDs don't care about vibration and you can just tuck them essentially anyplace. Right after making use of an SSD for your operating technique and applications, you'll come across it tough to go back to a difficult drive. Your computer won't boot hugely quicker, but as soon as loaded, everything challenging-drive related will run noticeably faster. It's quite uncomplicated to delight in.

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Drive is incredibly quick and quite quiet. Size is calculated in base two, not base 10, so you really get 60GB. I bought the shell-shocker deal on 08ባ񳏊. OCZ won't honor the rebate associated with that deal mainly because my invoice shows 08ቤ񳏊. I have no manage over the date newegg puts on my invoice, but I placed my order on 08ባ񳏊 throughout the shell-shocker time-frame and the cost I paid proves that. Don't count on obtaining your rebate, so only obtain if you're ok with the listed price. The drive doesn't come with a SATAII cable. It's not a con, just a thing to be conscious of. My situation came with extras so I didn't require to purchase one. I took 2 stars due to the fact I didn't get my rebate. The drive is nevertheless really excellent (and OCZ seems to make excellent goods), but it's significantly much less attractive at 136 than 95. I waited more than a month for a great shell-shocker deal to bring a 60GB+ driver below 100 immediately after rebate. Sadly OCZ won't honor my rebate, so I was conned out of paying 20% a lot more than I wanted to. Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are unsure as to the predicament concerning your purchase date, but we will be content to appear into this and will see that all valid rebates are paid. It is probably that you downloaded the form for the previous rebate (b4 8-eight). Please email rebates@ocztechnology.com and incorporate your complete name, address, product, and date and location of acquire.Thank you

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wicked fast boot ups and high scores from Win 7 ratings. install process was additional than I'd planned on. Simplest way I discovered was to strip my Pc down to the new OCZ drive and an optical drive to install the OS onto it (don't forget to select AHCI...) and off you go. A bit better (clearer and simpler to uncover) step by step install manual such as beneficial recommendations before beginning the install on the OCZ support forums would have been extremely valuable. It may possibly be out there but I didn't stumble upon it.

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inexpensive to RMA back! a single died immediately after a year, the replacement didn't last a month of barely any use at all! at this rate the next one need to turn to dust before fedex even hands it to me!!! i sooo wish a chose an additional brand! Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are very sorry for the issue. We will be happy to evaluation your program and installation on our assistance forums at the link beneath. Perhaps we can make some suggestions to enhance reliability. We are confident that our replacement drive will serve you properly into the future. Thank youExternal Link(s): OCZ Assistance Forums|

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Quicker than a HDD. Only lasted a year. RMA procedure extremely slow. Don't expect any replies to your queries for at least a couple of days. Turnaround was rapid. Sent old SSD via UPS on a Monday and received my replacement on Friday. Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are extremely sorry for the issue. Our policy is to reply to a client within 24 hours, and we aplogize for the delay. We have a support forum at the link beneath that is readily available for facts and answers to your queries. We can give a faster response there.Thank youExternal Link(s): OCZ Support Forums|