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

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I bought 3 of these drives for the duration of the 贶 special + บ rebate. I'm amazed with the speed, and with a MTBF(Mean time before fail .. fundamentally how considerably time before it dies) of 1,500,000 which is 171 years, what much more can you want for your price hahaha. none I love NewEgg

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Quite Quite rapidly reads. Writing is typical.Typical read speed 160 MB/s, max 215 MB/s, minumum 80MB/s. That never ever changed from the drive getting new till now. (Provided you do TRIM) When I purchased it it was 趐. Ridiculous. Also, even at 60GB, I'm beginning to run out of space even only after installing Windows to it and disabling the page file. I've utilized just about 50GB. AppData, profiles, tiny apps, temp files, everything adds up over a while. I did every thing for this drive. Did TRIM after in a while, backups, error scans, registry tweaks, took off the Temporary files and page file. I bought it in June 2009. It is now September 2010 and it has failed. I'm using it ideal now to write this but it is declining quick. It has begun to show a lot of poor sectors which are starting to add up, and also freezes regularly when attempting to read specific regions of the drive, and has begun to corrupt a lot of my data, also, causing frequency BSODs, user profile corruption, forced reinstallation of apps, slowness, and so forth. I will be replacing it soon, fortunately I have current backups.Also, be conscious that Wise values DO NOT have something to do with an SSD. None of the values mean anything at all, so don't even bother reading them. I seriously assume this really should have lasted longer.As my replacement I will most likely be staying with OCZ however, I might acquire a 120GB RevoDrive PCI-E RAID disc or a 120GB Agility two 3.5" drive. Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are sorry for the difficulty. We want to thank you for your brand loyalty. We will gladly replace you current drive below warranty. Please go to the link below and develop a assistance ticket to get in touch with our staff to arrange for an RMA.Thank youExternal Link(s): OCZ Help Page|

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Drive is really, uses low amounts of power and it is very rapid. I have been working with it for just about a month and I have not had any troubles at all. Significantly quicker then the two striped sata drives i had in the program before. Cost...It is fairly high-priced for the quantity of storage you get. For the cost of a 60 GB SSD you can get a 2 TB SATA drive. Kinda ridiculous Drive is good, but if you program on saving income on the rebate don't bother. I sent my rebate off as instructed and they say they never recieved the paperwork. I emailed them and they say to resubmit it. I went back to thier internet site (which is slow as christmas) and when I click the button for my paperwork I get a blank pdf file. I doubt will get any sort of rebate. Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are sorry that you have had rebate complications. OCZ utilizes a rebate residence for all processing, and we will be content to take care of this and will see that you get paid. Please e mail our internal rebate desk at rebates@ocztechnology.com and incorporate your full name, address, product and date and location of invest in.Thank you

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it's SSD, and opening application does make distinction about two-3 second faster than my regular segate HD which is 7200 rpm and expense me ฤ 4 years ago.i purchased this HD on 5ǝ񳏊 and still waiting on rebate. the original rebate was ฮ, initially a single didn't go by means of second time it did go through and it mentioned ฤ rebate card. i could have just bought kingstone drive as an alternative last of the OCZ item i'll ever get. Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are sorry that you have had rebate difficulties. Please e mail rebates@ocztechnology.com and incorporate your total name, address, product and place and date of buy. We will contact the rebate home to straighten this out, and will see that all valid rebates are paid.Thank you

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Affordable, pseudo-"brand name" Rebate took significantly longer than the promised time, and came by way of right after multiple emails to them. Drive died right after 1 year, would not even show up in BIOS. RMA procedure took 2 weeks, but I was sent a replacement. Replacement, regrettably, was also undesirable. RMAd once again, after a lot discussion they agreed to waive return shipping for the defective drive they sent me. I'm still waiting to get a prepaid shipping label for return. It's been a month, my HTPC is down, unacceptable.Poor quality drives, below average support. Why would I ever acquire OCZ? I'm not contacting their "supervisor" as they propose here in various posts - they require to do a better job rather than half-hearted service recovery. Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are sorry for the issues, and the delay. Please call our assistance manager at 鷘) 733-8400, ext 206, so we can examine into your RMA and get you running ASAP.Thank you

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Rapidly read/write occasions, applications load up rapidly, quite quick installs. I would say the boot time is seriously fast, but 1 out of four occasions that I'm booting up, it will freeze on the Vista loading screen or do some thing else weird that will force me to do a hard reset. It's just seriously annoying and un-trustworthy. I'm really worried that this instability will translate to it just not booting up at all 1 day soon. I purchased this at the finish of April, sent in my rebate appropriate away, and still have not received it. Great OCZ...it's time you speed up/honor your rebates or lose clients over it. That's just ridiculous. Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are sorry for the rebate difficulty. We spend thousands of rebates per year, and we will be happy to make contact with the rebate home and will see that your claim is paid. Please email rebates@ocztechnology.com and contain your total name, address, item, and location and date of acquire. We will be pleased to assist you with troubleshooting to resolve your freeze problems. Please take a look at our support forums at the link beneath and post in the Flash/SSD section.Thank youExternal Link(s): OCZ Support Forums|

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Incredibly fast ssd, which I installed in an Atom 450 Netbook. The bottleneck is undoubtedly the CPU at this point.Significantly quieter and cooler than the 5400rpm two.five tough drive that it replaced. Have not completed any energy savings tests, but sofar it has been great. 60gb still tends to make me feel like putting music and images on it are "wasteful" Great ssd, if you know what you're undertaking. Haven't bothered with flashing firmware yet.

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Excellent Performance! Blows my two velociraptors in RAID0 away in both read & Write none! Completely amazing product! I have been a Computer Tech for a lot more than 20 years. I have noticed a lot of gear & technologies come & go. By far, this is by far the best 'noticeable' upgrade you could do any method!! SSD drives are worth the value! Educate oneself on how they operate. And for those of you that are worried about wear levelling or the drive wearing out, right here is a small math for you.MeanTimeBeforeFailure(MTBF) is 1,500,000 hoursso : 1,500,000 HRS ᠒,500 Days // 62,500 days = 171.23 YEARS !!So lets cut that in half for you Video / Audio enthusiasts and we got 85 YEARS!!As you can see, even if you do continual Video / Audio encoding or decoding, this drive will out last all of your other gear and most probably you as nicely before it fails from put on levelling.

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It was a beautiful drive. I used it as a boot drive, bought it a year ago (and at practically double the current price), and it worked good. Windows 7 booted and began up swiftly. While my drive failed, OCZ assistance was good to deal with, although, and I got an RMA and have the replacement drive on its way as I write this. Turnaround was quick and, so far, the experience has been far greater than I would have expected. Mine failed. And at a truly awful time for me, personally (not that there's ever a terribly very good time for a drive to fail). Points may have changed a bit given that last year, but if you're searching to get an SSD, make positive you either know what you're undertaking or at least read up a bit about the one(s) you're interested in, initial.

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Wonderful drive HDtune reports consistent efficiency numbers comparable to the drives specifications, drive is noticeably snappier than my current WD Raptor.Before you install this drive, assure that your BIOS is updated, I ran into some troubles ahead of updating the BIOS but afterward smooth sailing. Throughout the Windows 7 install it took forever going screen to screen, not positive what that was all about but soon after the install have had no difficulties. These drives are very pricey, but for power users it's worth the expense. I'm in a position to function more rapidly, less waiting time in common opening applications and so forth, surely a worthwhile investment. Debating no matter if this was the correct purchase, perhaps I need to of sprung on the new Sandforce models, only time will inform.

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It quite fast when it is applied as your OS drive. (don't add or load to many applications to it). Just quite limiting on the quantity of data, I believed it was massive enough, it was at 1st but then within 6 months it was complete. this drive is to little for Vista, (WARMING) there is no will need to de-fragg this drive, in truth de-fragging can really ruin it, it will put on it out faster than regular

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Quick SSD with decent capacity for not significantly income. I originally got this for a desktop build as the OS drive, but ended up upgrading to a larger SSD, so place this in my laptop. It's been a fantastic, rapidly, OS drive. None that I've had Was annoying to update firmware on this one. I have a newer Agility2 which is much a lot more straight forward.

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Shipped with the most current firmware currently on it and worked proper out of the box. Immediately after some tweaks to Windows 7 it became a really rapid drive and operates wonderfully. To get the full performance out of the drive, a lot of modifications have to be done. Hopefully in the future these wont be required. No 2.5" to three.5" bracket for mounting? Include a mount!

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Exceptionally rapidly! Silent - No Heat - And Exceptionally rapidly! None Bought the Mac version as my very first a single. Loved it so a lot that I wanted another. Regrettably, they were backordered until October 2010. Decided to attempt this a single in my Mac Pro, figured I'd place it into one of my kid's Pc's if it didn't function properly. Not a problem even though. Ran it for a month as an auxiliary drive then switched it to RAID0 with the mac version. Every thing operates perfectly.On a Mac, there's no setup hassles. Plug it in, format it and go. Get the IcyDock 2.5 to 3.five converter if you've got a Mac Pro - Item #N82E16817994064 - effectively worth the $$ to use the disk drawer.I've not timed my boot process, but there's a lot of that on YouTube. I have timed Photoshop CS5 extended though. 2.17 seconds from click to perform area. Even my raptors took ten occasions that extended.

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I own this drive and a handful of Intel SSDs. I ran into a difficulty with AHCI compatibility that could have basically been an "early adopter" design limitation, or could have been a failed chain of firmware upgrades. I produced this clear, yet they continued with the RMA, and I received currently a brand new drive. So swiftly that the package took me by surprise. Additional frequent firmware upgrade cycles than Intel. Is this a fantastic thing or a bad issue? Depends how effortless a firmware upgrade is for your hardware. Go look... This is a fiercely competitive and high priced market place. I had a equivalent encounter with Intel: A drive needed a low level reset (we're speaking low, as in a DOS boot cd to do the dirty function), yet rather than guide me they sent me a new drive. I depend on the in-depth analysis at Anandtech.com, and a handful of of the OCZ drives are the only non-Intel drives I would take into account, even right now.

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Decent drive. I sent in the rebate material and the rebate shows as authorized on Might 26, 2010 but they never pay it. It's a lotta stupid hoops to jump thru for ฤ but what the heck I did it and they stiffed me anyway.These folks are small a lot more than widespread street thieves IMHO. My OCZ 700w GameXtreme PSU conked out following two only years, so I'm really truly confident that the warranty will be honored now. Manufacturer Response:Hello, rebates are taking 12 weeks to process at this time. If that time has passed, please e-mail rebates@ocztechnology.com and consist of you complete name, address, product and spot and date of acquire. We will be happy to appear into your rebate, and will see that all valid claims are paid.Thank you

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Would be good if it worked DOA, didn't perform thats that Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are really sorry for the issue. Please RMA with Newegg for a replacement drive. If we can be of any help, please go to our assistance forums at the link below. We are generally pleased to enable.Thank youExternal Hyperlink(s): OCZ Help Forums|

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Quite rapid- booting up my pc is smooth as silkLower priced than some competitors Not as rapidly as the newer drives Costs are coming down quickly on the newer, quicker drives. This was a good deal for me due to the fact it was on sale, but I would rather have one of the newer drives if I had to spend complete retail.

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Drive has been working nice for the final two months. Fresh install of Windows 7 on a C2D laptop. Could have gotten a newer generation for the exact same cash. The rebate is a myth. It's been ten weeks and have not received the rebate.I did every thing as requested in the facts of the rebate. Registered on their web page, printed the form and invoice, signed, attached the bar code from packaging, mailed inside handful of days.I will not get suckered again by OCZ. If you are thinking about shopping for this drive due to the fact of its price right after rebate- cease and think about if it's a fantastic deal at the complete price tag. Then appear elsewhere.

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I bought two of these SSDs to spot in a RAID0 configuration. 120 GB is sufficient for anyone to get by as their boot up drive / program files drive. Installation of Windows 7 took ㅂ minutes to completely complete. Loading windows on a fresh boot takes half the time compared to my 7200 Samsung HDDs. At the time of acquire (May 2010) these had been the best drives for the price tag. Not dependable... not dependable... not dependable!In the course of Labor Day weekend I shut my pc off for 3 complete days. Not a huge deal given that I shut my pc off just about every night. When I came back to my computer Monday afternoon, the Raid Controller recognized my SSD RAID0 as failed. I tried to recover the drive, but could not given that the BIOS was not even recognizing the drive existing.I went by means of the OCZ Help Forums to find a remedy that I could try myself. It suggested to flash the firmware back to the basic firmware and then upgrade to latest version. Nevertheless, during flash of the SSD, an error occured. I was unable to effectively flash the FW back to 1.1.Granted I backup my data to my other drives often, and I maintain a backup OS on my other drives... this was nonetheless a really significant discomfort to deal with. A hard drive not recognized by the BIOS tells me that the HDD has completely failed.Make certain to upgrade your firmware to most recent. SummaryPROS-Rapidly-Modest-Low heat / powerCons-Not dependable-Fails with no warning-Difficult to recover

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tiny, inexpensive to RMA back through initially class unreliable Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are extremely sorry for the problem. We are confident that your replacement will serve you properly into the future. Thank you

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Drive is truly rapid compared to the old 5400 rpm drive it replaced. Boot time with Win7-64 is super rapidly. Load times for applications are super quickly. Alignment troubles when trying to do a drive to drive copy. There is a long course of action to do this from a spinner to ssd and right after a lengthy time trying I ultimately gave up, just did a clean install and copied more than the files I required. The con wasn't truly a large deal since I was installing this on a laptop that didn't have a lot of "programs" that needed to be copied, just a lot of "files". This would have been a considerably bigger deal to me if I was replacing my desktop drive.

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Awesome item. Most likely one particular of the best upgrades I've ever carried out.I am running an intel i5-750 using this 60gb OCZ vertex as my boot drive. Awesome speeds, I noticed a large distinction. Study speeds blazing quick...no a lot more loading occasions. Write occasions also vastly improved. two.5" so it doesnt effortlessly fit into tough drive mounts....have to buy adapter which I feel really should come with drive...nevertheless gets 5 stars though. Still very high-priced. I had heard excellent things about these solid state drives, and I was not disappointed. The speed difference IS noticeable. Very advise to anybody, despite the fact that they are a bit high-priced.

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-- Quick. My original laptop hdd took over 4 min to load Vista, upgraded WD just beneath 3min, Vertex takes 30sec to get to workable desktop in Win7-64U. Absolutely excellent efficiency and worth the price tag.-- Forums. If you have a issue OCZ forums are a excellent destination to find answers and men and women will be glad to aid you or at least present you a shoulder to cry on. Official staff are dedicated to much better the expertise.-- RMA. Immediately after submitting request it took 1d to approve it. It took them 3d to ship new drive after they received mine. Shipped from Taiwan, received in 2d. Pretty uncomplicated and rapidly. -- Not dependable. SSD died under 3mo of light usage. I used it about 3hr/d x7d x10wk ) = 210hr = not superior!-- Forums. It is the fact that shoppers have to rely on forums for a lot more details and aid. They are poorly organized and have loads of irrelevant info. OCZ needs to generate some fantastic database not linked to forums -- sticky's must be stripped of wordiness and mirrored in that database.-- Rebates. The ฤ you are waiting for are going to have small meaning by the time you get it. I nevertheless have not gotten mine and at this point it will not make me any happier. OCZ SSD's are inexpensive mainly because of their reliability. If you have limited resources and a lot of time on your hands (HS or college student) who does not mind restoring almost everything after the drive fries -- you are superior to go. Bear in mind to image your drive typically or at least store your docs and pics elsewhere. I unloaded my 2GB SD card with pics and videos due to the fact I required it cost-free promptly and by no means archived on the external. The drive died 4d right after that and I lost my pics. Lesson learnt.I asked half a dozen recovery places and they all give a flat Ūk independently if it is 2GB or 60GB. One particular technician referred to as me on the weekend from his individual phone offering "to help me" for 躔. It was definitely going to be out of sight from his bosses. I would most likely spend that for the pics, but currently RMA'd my drive.Bottom line: just mainly because you have a lot of reviewers who have it for a week or a month giving OCZ five eggs, does not mean they will really feel the same way in several months' time. Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are quite sorry for the dilemma and the inconvenience. We are confident that your replacement drive will operate out fine for you.Thank you

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I am utilizing this drive for photo storage (I have a Vertex 2 100GB for my boot drive). When I open up a folder with over 1200 photos the thumbnails all pop open at as soon as. Paid much more for this one than the Vertex two. i7 950Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R6 GB of G.Skill 1600MHz DDR3Dual EVGA GTX 570sOCZ Vertex 2 100Gb and Vertex 60GbCorsair HX1000W PSSilverstone Fortress FT02BW