OCZ Onyx OCZSSD2-1ONX32G 2.5" MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

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I picked up a utilized 1 of these. It still works great. It utilizes half the energy of other SSDs for additional laptop battery life. 32gb is a lot of room for Linux or XP,. It's quiet and doesn't get as hot as a mechanical HDD. Quickly set up and boot instances. It's only 32gb. Windows 7 fits, but there isn't space for much else. A bit more high priced than mechanical HDD drives. Not as quick as the Agility or Vertex series. OCZ discontinued this model, but there will be an Onyx two Series coming out quickly. The Onyx two will have the exact same energy specs but it will be considerably faster, but possibly much more expensive as well. I own 5 OCZ SSD drives now. This one particular isn't the fasted, but it's the least high priced. A great drive to attempt out what SSD's can do on a budget..

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It's a fantastic drive for the income. Most of the overall performance you'd count on from an SSD. Choose one of these up on rebate and you can't go incorrect. Quite low capacity, about enough to install Win7, Workplace, and a few other misc applications. Would suggest a larger driver, perhaps Vertex2, to get full positive aspects of an SSD with any game installs or larger system suites. Low capacity, create speed. If you're hunting for additional space/performance, choose up a Vertex2 rather.

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* Automatic Garbage Collection: OCZ SSD drives working with the Indilinx controller are a step above comparable worth drives by Kingston, Adata, Corsair and what have you. As most of you know, the efficiency of SSD drives degrades more than time and use. The TRIM function (provided by the OS and only in Linux, Windows 7 and Vista) compensates for this, but as of this date, DOES NOT Function IN RAID ARRAYS. However, Garbage Collection is OS independent, and by idling the drive for brief periods of time, you can restore the drive to peak or near peak functionality. Idling is achieved by leaving the pc in BIOS mode for an evening or two. Because the computer does not draw on the tough drive when it BIOS, the drives will enter idle mode and automatically begin optimizing.* Yet another feature of OCZ drives is the XP-only, manual optimization plan, Wiper. When TRIM is not offered, Wiper really should perform. Regrettably, Wiper does not seem to be prepared for use with the Onyx drive however. * Somewhat poor worth: If you are going only for capacity and not performance, then the Onyx is a pretty excellent drive. Otherwise paying roughly ฤ more for a Vertex suggests finding all the further capabilities and two-4 occasions additional create overall performance for only a little amount much more.* TRIM is not however ready for prime time. This is not so considerably a critique of the Onyx as it is of SSD technologies in general, but there are a lot of sorts of operation that SSDs are not but ready for. For instance, as of currently's date Ɨቫቦ) TRIM does not function in any kind of Intel primarily based RAID configuration, hence forcing you to rely on OCZ's Garbage Collection feature. While this sounds like a pro for the OCZ drives, due to the fact other makers lack this feature, it's truly a shortcoming, given that you ought to idle the drive in BIOS overnight, which is a slight hassle.* Minor degree of technical sophistication essential to Properly use. I extremely suggest that you read up on 1. Flashing the firmware; 2. Garbage Collection; three. Wiper. I initially gave 3 eggs, but after continued usage have come to view the Onyx in a brighter light. The purpose is that any other drive in my configuration would call for periodic reformatting to sustain peak efficiency. On my ICH10R Southbridge, a RAID array of Onyx drives wrote at 120MB/s and read at around 250MB/s. Even though comparable value drives have better numbers on paper, the genuine globe overall performance of the Onyx is in fact very good. Windows 7 rated my drives as possessing a 7.fourǝ.5 in efficiency. And in XP it boots in about 30 seconds. Not terrible for a spending budget drive!Ultimately, because it's seriously the greatest on the internet, the OCZ assistance forums are a massive bonus, if you ever need technical assistance and can't stand dealing with poorly educated service technicians. I was in a position to get all my inquiries answered, and the drives operating optimally just by reading and participating.

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Quite decent drive for the cost, up till you have to deal with support. A little a lot more than a month right after I installed the drive, the system it was in (a Debian home server) started getting some bizarre challenges. An fsck revealed that the filesystem had dozens of fairly severe errors, which it did its very best to repair. Through the following reboot, the OS ran into far more errors, forcing the filesystem to be mounted in read only mode. Another reboot forced a different fsck, which identified dozens additional really serious errors. This repeated for a couple of occasions until I told fsck to check for and right for poor blocks at the similar time. All of a sudden, everything worked fine, minus the data that had been permanently corrupted in the approach.So, due to the fact the only issue I could think of that would result in these symptoms is terrible blocks on the drive and I didn't specifically feel like trusting a drive that had already corrupted my data, I sent in an RMA request to OCZ. Every brand has a few poor drives, no big deal.Continued under. A week and a half dozen or so exchanges with tech assistance later, the only point I got out of them was "If the drive works at all, it's operating completely and any issues are your personal fault".All it would have taken to appease me was a remotely plausible explanation for how the symptoms I saw could have been brought on by anything other than a defect in the drive, but help couldn't do something other than continue to insist that their SSDs can ONLY fail by becoming absolutely and utterly unreadable, and that the firmware will magically make all other troubles go away. Yes, the firmware must automatically detect and remap bad blocks, ideally with out corrupting data. Yet it didn't, and I lost data.This practical experience has entirely soured me on all OCZ merchandise. I refuse to continue to do business with a organization that doesn't even make a token try to stand behind their solutions. Not only will I never obtain an additional OCZ item, I have been actively discouraging others from purchasing t

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This is a wonderful SSD for the price tag. Installed it in a nettop barebones technique (with an Atom processor) running Ubuntu, and the method is blazing rapid. We have a shared NAS server in the house, so this size of drive is wonderful. This is my second OCZ SSD, and I have not been disappointed with either of them. I previously purchased a Patriot SSD for this technique, but it was DOA -- glad I switched back to OCZ. None

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Only one pro - it was much less than 贄. Following a great expertise with an Intel X-25 - I decided to try an OCZ drive. What a mistake!! Initially of all - they didn't even take the time to make it the right size - it will not appropriately fit any of the 3 caddies I attempted it in. Then - none of the 3 laptops (Acer, H-P and Compaq 8510w) would recognize it in SATA mode. I ultimately got it to install in IDE-mode on the Compaq and it lasted two days. Now it is completely dead - not recognized as a device. When it did function - it only decreased the bootup time on Win 7 to 45 seconds - versus the ~ 15 sec for the Intel drive on a unique Acer 񢥢). This may possibly be a good drive for an individual who desires to tinker a lot - I bought this drive to use on a every day basis and it is a failure. Caveat emptor! Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are sorry for the challenges. It sounds as although you received a defective unit. Please take a look at the hyperlink beneath and generate a help ticket to get in touch with our help staff. Thank youExternal Hyperlink(s): OCZ Assistance Web page|

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Cheap for an SSD (assuming I get the rebate!). It's noticeably quicker than the 7200 RPM drive in my principal computer system, and considerably more quickly than the 5400 RPM drive it replaces in my netbook. Many applications launch almost immediately and huge apps that utilised to take five or ten seconds to begin, now take just a couple seconds. Plus I truly like that SSD drives are entirely silent and vibration-cost-free. Properly, definitely the limited capacity. And it doesn't seem to be much additional energy-efficient than the 5400 RPM drive that came with my netbook, although I feel that drive (Hitachi) was chosen by the manufacturer for its low energy usage. My netbook runs Windows XP, which requires only a couple gigabytes of space, so this drive's 32 GB size is sufficient for my restricted requirements on this technique. It's not as rapidly as most other SSD drives accessible nowadays, but my netbook's tiny Atom CPU would be fairly considerably overwhelmed by something faster. So this drive is practically great for me in this application.

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Average SSD Drive, As Expected and Functions Fantastic. Not much but, runs a bit hotter than my other 80GB Intel SSD I would almost certainly get yet another as a present for a pal.

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Fast! Extremely good value, fast, quiet, as an SSD must be, have had zero problems with it and did I mention Quickly!? None at all. If you're searching for an SSD simply to install an OS on this is best.

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Indilix Amigos controller superior than other cheap controllersAccess to OCZ assistance forumsTRIM assistance - and in general, much more functions than older, quicker drivesGood fit in Windows 7 due TRIM functionality 20MB/S sustained writepoor value compared to Vertex The Intel X25-V beats the Onyx in most benchmarks. X25 is larger, reads and writes faster and can be found for ๠ on sale (as of sixቫቦ). In truth, the Onyx is worth about half the Vertex drive of the very same size. Unfortunately, it's promoting for about the similar price tag, which is really bizarre.

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I initially purchased two of these to run a single in a windows box and a different in a laptop running Bio-linux six (Ubuntu 10.04 based). The Windows box got cramped rather swiftly, as did the laptop ahead of I moved my media files to a 16gb sd card. I decided to go Linux only more than the holidays and pulled each drives to run Ubuntu ten.ten in a software RAID0 on the desktop. Study rates:Min/Max = 173.two뢦.five MB/sTypical = 241.9 MB/sOverall, I'm quite impressed. Price per GB, read/write price. I'm searching forward to costs coming down, but it was certainly worth it.

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More rapidly than any mechanical drive, was affordable (after rebate they inform me is coming but hasn't arrived but 5 months later), compact, energy effective, runs cool, and so on. Have had episodes of it not displaying up in the BIOS and the laptop not booting. I have to unplug, wait, plug back in, configure BIOS and hope the drive stays. I've swapped SATA cords, changed ports on mobo, challenge only effects the OCZ drive. Other drive is a WD. Mine is the later firmware. This has happened right after the 1st month and just began up once more three months later. Great point I bought the extended warranty, may have to use it, but what a hassle. I use OCZ RAM as nicely and have have some intermittent blue screen concerns with it, could be relted to my board not putting adequate voltage to it - but it does give me pause when considering OCZ. If you are getting any OCZ solution simply because of the warranty (I've done this twice) just submit the rebate in a timely style and overlook about it. It will be a nice surprise when it at some point shows up.

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Seems to be doing what it's supposed to do. My XP bootup was a bit more rapidly, and a watt meter shows that I'm absolutely drawing somewhat significantly less power at idle on this box. I'm not blown away, necessarily, but this is why I purchased the item, so I'm happy. It has met my expectations, but has not surpassed them.The OCZ Onyx line of drives meets a value point that enticed me to at least dabble with an SSD. I quite a lot wanted to see what all the hub-bub was about, without having having to execute a spending budget analysis in anticipation of the acquire. There are only three "cons", and these are dubious anyway--some of these may possibly just be since this is new technologies and not each and every piece of computer software handles program-level troubles perfectly but.1) If you google some of the web-sites, you will see that some people are indicating (including OCZ themselves) that you aren't going to get complete functionality with no tweaking the partition alignments in particular operating systems, like the XP on my box. I just ignored this, since I didn't care that considerably.2) The S.M.A.R.T. information supplied by this drive is hugely dubious. S.M.A.R.T. fields appear to be interpreted absolutely incorrectly by each single piece of software (Speedfan, PCWizard, etc.etc.) in my arsenal. e.g., Speedfan thinks this SSD out of the box has a "fitness" level of 35%. Not possible, certainly.3) Auslogics Disk Defrag, when I check "do not show solid state drives" in the alternatives **STILL** shows this drive. Thus, I have to be cautious not to accidentally defrag t I employed Apricorn EZ Gig to clone my partitions straight onto this drive from my Acer Revo 1600 XP nettop. There was no aspect to this that was any distinct than if this was just a typical challenging drive. I use this drive as a boot drive only. I never ever seriously transfer files to/from this drive, so my only encounter with the allegedly faster information transfer rates is what I get on boot up, and it definitely does seem marginally quicker. Of course, the Acer Revo 1600 is really modest--Intel Atom 230, etc.; probably I would have observed one thing much more mind-blowing if the CPU wasn't possibly bottleneck in the boot sequence.Anyway, everything appears fine. It's fairly considerably operating exactly as I anticipated.I can't picture at 32GB that anybody would employ this drive in any sort of capacity considerably distinct than I have, so I am certain it will meet your expectation. If you have ever swapped out a tough drive in your life, then you can manage this.

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Purchased these alongside an Intel D525MW board...works superb collectively. Possibly not large sufficient for a boot drive but big adequate for the fundamentals. Solid overall performance. None Wonderful drive for the cost. I've applied the Kingston SSDNow drive and was disappointed with performance.

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Incredibly low energy consumption (been functioning off the battery for the final two hours, at 70% suitable now!) with swift access and load instances. From the time I press the energy button to the time Windows 7 is totally booted and ready to go requires about 20 seconds. Install was simple and very rapid (didn't time it, but I'm utilised to waiting about for more than 30 minutes for a Windows install), pure plug and play with drivers installing automatically. AVG virus scan is blazing quickly doing the whole drive in well beneath ten minutes. None I bought this drive in order to upgrade my Sony Vaio Laptop because I was tired of slow boot and program load times. I sacrificed 200 GB worth of storage for the speed and consider it is properly worth it. I only use my laptop for web, Word, and Excel form applications so do not miss the additional drive space. Did a clean set up of Windows 7 with no difficulties or operate beyond clicking the 'format drive' alternative during setup and nevertheless have 20GB of space after installing the operating technique. If you don't have 100GB worth of motion pictures, music, or other data, and just will need a little extra speed, then this is a wonderful performance upgrade and effectively worth the ๪.

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More quickly than the spindle 160GB laptop drive that it replaced. Has auto-garbage collection feature for OSs with no TRIM assistance. Space, but that is a provided for right now's present line of SSDs. This drive makes a big difference in boot time and speed for OS X 10.six (Snow Leopard). Apps load almost instantaneously, which is rather wonderful; it's virtually like boosting your processor speed without having the hassle of installing a new CPU. There are a couple of tweaks on the net that can support extend the drive's life expectancy for writes, but do not anticipate a lot else. The drive has been serving me effectively so far.

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This is a excellent drive for the value. I needed an SSD for the OS and this did the job. I have Windows 7 Ultimate on the SSD with a SATA 6GB connection and I boot up the whole program in 14.7 seconds! I restarted the Pc with 7 IE explorer browsers, Just Result in two, iTunes, Steam, and the complete workplace 2007 enterprise collection opened, it shut down and rebooted in 34 seconds. TO get it functioning it took me five hours for peak overall performance! Either know what your carrying out or spend somebody. My setup:-i7 860-4GB DDR3 Ripjaw 1600MHz-EVGA P55 SLI -EVGA GTX 260-BFG 8800GTS as Physx-OCZ SSD-ƒ) 150GB Velociraptors in RAID -Ƒ) External USB Fantom Ghost 2TB HDD-750W OCZ PSU-HAF 932-LG DVD +/-RW-LG Blu-Ray Reader/Writer

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My OS boots up in 1ǚ of the time is applied to take! -Little hard drive-It might or may well not have crashed a couple occasions in the starting, I'm nonetheless unsure of it though

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Tiny, rapidly, trustworthy, cool, no power consumption (HTPC only has a 90w PSU, this counted massive-time). OS almost insta-boots. Other than the cost of SSD in general? Nothing so far. Applied this in a small form element HTPC scratch built case. Required something to place my OS on so I could run a single hot-swap for HDD and not have to install OS and players/codec on 4+ drives. This small guy fit the bill wonderfully. Mounted it with an aftermarket mount inside the case so I didn't even want a bay!HTPC dimensions: 12.five"x13.75"x5."Asus ION-T Deluxe mITX motherboard/Atom CPUʂ.1Ghz4Gb G.Skill DDR31Tb HDDs in a Kingwin hot-swap bayLG BD ROM-DVD R/WAverMedia Dual Television TunerW7 House 64bit

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SSD's are fantastic boot devices we all know SSD's are costly I plan on acquiring this really quickly, i have a 7200 rpm 2Tb drive correct now, i feel my greatest luck and for all of you individuals out there would be to obtain this as a boot device whilst having a greater challenging drive for storage. creating boot time and information executions quickly. Looking forward to this