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

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Reputation for games and applications is well-deserved. Even with the high expectations I had going in, I found the difference with games to be jaw-dropping and quite remarkable. Loading occasions for applications is fairly noticeable. Fundamentally plug and play with my EVGA mobo and I had no problems installing the OS. As is generally noted, the OCZ forums are superb for any extra/tweaking information you may well require. It's seriously not that difficult. Not genuinely a con, but it didn't rather meet my expectations for the OS drive. If you're the kind to notice each and every second, it's more rapidly than the WD 500 Blue I was utilizing. Beyond startup and shutdown even though, I didn't notice any huge variations. I got the occasional stutter, which seems to be regular and didn't bother me. I just don't care all that significantly about ten-20 seconds on startup. It may well save me 30 seconds a week if I restart my computer system twice. If I were tweaking my life for efficiency as substantially as my computer, I'd locate a lot more locations to upgrade. There are a bunch of tweaks and suggestions that go with installing your OS on an SSD. They're not hard, but the hassle of moving browser caches and disabling some services wasn't seriously worthwhile.

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Really quick dream, steady, and dropping in cost now with the Vertex two's out now. Rebates make me sick to commence with.. Just reduce the price tag of the drive.. why make us jump by way of hoops just to save some cash. It's ridiculous. I will say that whilst I did get Each of my rebates(one from these, and one more rebate from a 120GB I got) and even though I did mail them out on the 21st day.. it took four months to get the Rebates. And they come in the kind of a Credit card, with all sorts of fee's attached to them. So 1) do NOT go over your limit quantity, and two) as soon as you empty the card, Contact AND HAVE THE ACCOUNT CLOSED! to avoid concerns and charges later. trigger if you leave even a penny on the card you can incur fee's (after 1yr I believe) and they will send you to collections when you refuse to spend!!! As for the drives themselves.. I installed 4 of these in RAID0 on an LSI 9260-4i and it freakin screams!!!蒤mb뫸mbWhile I will say that overall it is tricky to really feel any discernible distinction in efficiency amongst 1 drive and four in Raid0. Applications do open instantaneously. I have never ever observed the adobe inventive suite set up so fast, and photoshop opens in like 1-two sec actually. But It felt the exact same with a single drive as effectively. But all in all, the consumer loves it, and the bragging rights he earned. And I decided to get myself a Vertex 2 60gb. FWIW if you have ANY concerns at all make your way to the OCZ forum. there are so many SUPER valuable guys more than there. But do oneself a favor and Study about prior to you post.other than that.. rebates blow and the corporation OCZ utilizes is slower than a Turtle on Benzodiazepines .

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Nevertheless operating like a champ. A little pricey Stick to the hacks and tweaks for limiting writes to the drive for max efficiency.

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+Fast. It is a wonderful improvement more than traditional HDDs. I've got WD Black tough drives, which are great, but this issue is considerably more quickly.+Easy set up. I just plugged it in and installed Windows 7. Turned off superfetch, recovery, and defrag so I'm fantastic to go.+Boots extremely quick and all of my applications are considerably snappier. -Cost to GB ratio, of course.-Ordered it on the 7th, didn't arrive until the 16th. Do oneself a favor and pay the extra Ū if you want it in three days. 1st time benchmarking, so these numbers could be off:Seq. create: 189.4MB/sRandom create: 80MB/sRandom study: 142.5MB/sHalf stroke: 71.6MB/sAll I know is my Windows rating went from a five.9 to a 6.9 overnight. This tough drive is tied with my processor and graphics card at 6.9, so in order to break the 7. marker, I'm going to have to modify or buy three new components.

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Genuine Quick,No Lags trying to access files and stuff 60 is fantastic, but wished I got 80GB 1 Egg for the really terrible packaging,It came like I am receiving a magazine inside that packaging seriously.

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Quick - when it's working Unreliable. Drive failed/died immediately after 7 month using. Appear like numerous have reported same problem soon after using x months. Look at all the commends posted on Newegg for other Vertex series. Yeah, OCZ will replace the drive, but what about my data? I lost 2 weeks of important information. Backup frequently and pray that it won't died. or use it for boot only. store all significant data in other drive(ie. the non SSD ones). At least you can re-set up OS on a backup disk and won't shed the significant data Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are incredibly sorry for the problem. Please visit the link beneath and produce a help ticket to arrange for a replacement drive.Thank youExternal Link(s): OCZ Support Web page|

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I put the new Windows 7 64 on it and I like. It is fast, smooth and I wish it was larger. I wish it was bigger.( I can't afford larger) I upgraded from a velociraptor, Windows XP to Windows 7 64 on this beauty and it is awsome.

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Did a fresh install of Vista 64 bit professional with no configuration needed. Boots up rapidly and shuts down quick. Extremely Very... no far more difficult drive noises/sounds!! none Make sure you have a coverter for the drive or a really hard drive dock for the SSD. It is a 2.5 inch drive as stated. I had to modify a three.5 slot in my windtunnel case. New Construct:- ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 AM3 AMD 890GX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3. HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard59935018 - AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor Model HDZ965FBGMBOX- A-Data Gaming Series 4GB ƒ x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model AX3U1600GB2G9-2G59935018 - SAPPHIRE 100282-3SR Radeon HD 5850 (Cypress Pro) 1GB 256-bit DDR5 PCI Express 2. x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Help Video Card w/ Eyefinity60215722 - OCZ Vertex Series OCZSSD2-1VTX60G 2.5" 60GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD�

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Super fast when it worked Ran for 12 days!!!!!!!And then entirely shut down.Lost all information and even had my tech buddy check it dead and no way of retrieving data. 12 days are you really serious .....Bought all high end gear to have this not happen and properly gos to show you get what you pay for.. Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are sorry for the problem. Please RMA with Newegg (under 30 days), Your replacement ought to operate out fine for you. If we can be of any help, please visit our help forums at the link under and post in the Flash/SSD section.Thank youExternal Hyperlink(s): OCZ Support Forums|

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Quite quick drive. No fussing to get it configured; just plugged it in and formatted it; simple as pie. OS loaded without a hitch (quickly!) Boots up in about 20 seconds now. none so far. excellent investment if you will need to save time on your laptop but should replace a SATA or SATA II drive.

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Excellent Drive, It is quick, no noise, cool, quick, it's pretty darn fast.Truthfully I didn't notice the speed until I was playing in my bios and accidentally booted up into my old system (I kept a hard drive backup and my installs usually look identical) I was acquiring so frustrated with how slow the method was until I realized what had happend. Value per GB For people complaining about the rebate failing, I had the exact identical factor occur to me (invoice was a day off from the valid dates or some such nonsense). I named up OCZ and second ring a genuine particular person picks up with spoke really clear English! I was ecstatic. I explained the scenario and in significantly less than five minutes it was all sorted out, my rebate was received as promised but it did take Ӱ months.

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Awesomely fast that it's scary. technique boots up Quite Rapidly, loads up programs and applications practically instantaneously (except for adobe merchandise).installation and setup was relatively straightforward. installed win7 onto it as my main drive without having any difficulty.data transfer is exceptionally nicely.and it raised my harddrive rating from a 5.9 to 7. so KUDOS, SSD.and a three year warranty. had to buy a dock for it, but i guess its not genuinely a con much less the dock can screw up the drive due to the fact it fits so completely. 60gb isnt nearly massive sufficient to set up a wide variety of points.often my laptop freezes for the duration of start out up simply because the drive is unidentifiable for some reason unknown and the computer fails to boot. and....MY SSD WENT HAYWIRE Immediately after 2 MONTHS OF USE!......... alrite, two eggs. why? just so people know, this really should actually be a 5egg rating, but im providing it a two because.....OCZ has Really Undesirable customer service/support. my harddrive got corrupted or some thing after TWO MONTHS (yes after only 2months) of usage, and i had to do a fresh set up onto my seagate 1TB tough drive whilst i try to get in touch with OCZ about the SSD. i opened up a ticket, they asked for my item info and to give them at least 24 hours for a reply, i sent the facts to them but never ever got an email back about my issue (been 4 days now), even soon after leaving comments about it, no one has but to reply. so. in conclusion? Good item, could just be me, but mine died and OCZ isnt assisting by not answering my trouble ticket. so Buy it, its good, but just hope yours isn't defective. Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are extremely sorry for the dilemma, We do blind excellent testing of our systems on a regular basis, and have been receiving responses often inside 24 hours. We suspect there is a junk mail filter, or spam filter blocking our email to you. We will be happy to take care of your demands. Please contact our help manager at 鷘ꌅ-8400 ext 206 for assistance.Thank you

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drive is functioning effectively with windows 7 my rebate was Approved on 03ቹ񳏊, still no sight of the check, e-mail them three weeks ago, stated will take six to 8 weeks immediately after getting approve, but now is more than 8 weeks already. i just gave them one egg on objective for the rebate problem.the quickest rebate i ever get is from the patriot ( box office ),got the verify within one month from the day i place order to the day i received the verify. Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are pleased that your drive is operating well for you. Rebates are taking about 12 weeks for processing, and we aplogize for the more delay. You will obtain your rebate.Thank you

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Good efficiency, competitive price tag. Most likely the finest price tag/performance -- for now. Falls short of published overall performance specs. Nevertheless substantially faster than any difficult disk even though. Rated 7.4 on WEI when connected to SATA2 port of P55 chipset. On Marvell SATA6G port, only 5.9 and comes with a warning from WEI that performance is extremely variable. I figured that placing it on the other controller would be more rapidly by not sharing PCIe bandwidth with rotating devices (DVD-RW + 2xHDD), but Intel's drivers are just considerably significantly superior.Also, 60G is ideal for an OS drive in a desktop laptop or computer. For a laptop, locate anything 80GB or larger.

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Its rapid as are most SSDs. You currently know the pros It lasted about 2 weeks just before it died the initially time. The 2nd a single final about as extendedOZCs RMA procedure is Quite slow and they will not advance you a new drive like most HDD manufacturers. IE. You must wait to ship your drive to them ahead of they will ship you a replacement. It takes over 24 hours just to get an RMA quantity from them. Do not rely on this drive. If you use it, make each day backups, and have a drive ready to take its place if it dies. You will not want to wait for OCZs RMA process Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are really sorry for the difficulty. Your replacement drive ought to perform out fine for you. We do our very best to help our consumers as speedily as possible.Thank you

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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!