Product ReviewsOCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD2-2VTXE240G SSD 240GB 2.5" internal
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 Rating: Review Date: 08/26/13 |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/19/13 |
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Quick when it worked OCZ Tech Help is slowOCZ Tech Assistance is uselessOCZ is delighted to snap more than 躔 from you for this junk and are not capable of supplying advance RMA. It is not like I was asking them to send me a totally free replacement, I asked for sophisticated rma so I would spend in advance so that they would reimburse me when they get the broken drive back. Obtain from somebody who stands for their item. OCZ clearly does not. I have read stories of RMAs taking weeks from OCZ. Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are sorry for the dilemma. Our employees will see that you receive your drive as quickly as doable. Thank you |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/10/13 |
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Exceptional performance. Uncomplicated set up on Windows 7 Specialist (Dell Dimension 9200). TRIM functions out of the box. Died in much less than two months. RMA presently in progress. I have owned three OCZ SSDs (all in various machines):OCZ Agility - seemed to be failing - no longer utilizedOCZ Agility 2 - died after 33 days - replacement has lasted 39 days so farOCZ Vertex two - died soon after 57 days - RMA in progressThese OCZ drives are super quick. The reliability, however, doesn't look to be on par with the overall performance. Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are really sorry that you are obtaining troubles. Our support employees will see that you are taken care of, Thank you |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/29/13 |
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Rapidly, awesome boot time Dead / Died / DeadsiesOur office had six of these that all died, either within a few months or couple of weeks. Got replacements and these all died, all inside a week interestedly.From message boards it appears to be related to Dell laptops, we use the E64xx series of corporate laptop.OCZ wouldn't offer you a repair and wouldn't give any refund or substitute for a solution that was identified to operate. No refund I suppose I could recognize, but no sub? Fortunate for us, Intel makes some awesome SSD's and we've been content ever due to the fact.Want I could rate eggs Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are very sorry that for the difficulties. Please get in touch with our assistance manager at 鷘ꌅ-8400, ext 206. We will be happy to help you. Our goal is to insure that each and every buyer is happy with their obtain. Thank you |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/04/13 |
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It's worth just about every penny. There's no partitioning required to reduce search time. This is an evolutionary step in storage. None so far, and I don't expect any. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/29/13 |
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Ridiculously rapidly. Puts mechanical drives to shame. Simple for new Win7 install. only 220GB usable space (expected but nevertheless) Its a dauntingly huge quantity of funds but worth it. If your operating a laptop and can offload some storage to an HTPC or a home server - this is good size drive to perform with. You actually won't be disappointed with this. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/25/13 |
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Was really quickly on first boot... ...then bricked right after a sleep cycle. Rebooting bricked. Had to set up the old drive to get back up and running. Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are sorry for the difficulty. Please RMA with Newegg for a quick replacement, and you will be running fine. If we can be of help, please take a look at our assistance forums at the hyperlink below and post in the Flash/SSD section.Thank youExternal Hyperlink(s): OCZ Help Forums| |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/11/13 |
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Superb performing drive for OSX or Win. (Make positive you enable the SSD tweaks located in the OCZ forums such as noatime, disable smsensor, and so forth)Came shipped with FW 1.11 which fixes a bunch of problems with FW1.ten. Comes with three.five" conversion tray for Desktops. Utilizes SandForce Controller (best out there presently)OCZ Vertex two SSD: FW 1.11 Benefits 296.18 Xbench Version [.three System Version Ύ.6.4 ྪF569) Physical RAM 𖾐 MB Model MacBookPro5,1 Drive Kind OCZ-VERTEX2 鴰GB) Disk Test.18 Sequential⏘.59 Uncached Create.96⏊.07 MB/sec ΒK blocks] Uncached Write␣.81⎶.47 MB/sec K blocks] Uncached Studyϕ.67Λ.90 MB/sec ΒK blocks] Uncached Study⒡.67⏥.82 MB/sec K blocks] Random⚽.63 Uncached Create.16⎹.79 MB/sec ΒK blocks] Uncached Create⓬.46⎸.85 MB/sec K blocks] Uncached Read𖤓.25Ε.26 MB/sec ΒK blocks] Uncached Study✃.99⏟.33 M All higher functionality SSD's are going to be a premium Value/GB The OCZ Vertex two Series' performs almost specifically the same as the Corsair Force Series SSD's with OCZ obtaining the slightly greater Firmware benefit. The Vertex 2 holds about a 10% efficiency advantage on average more than the Corsair Force SSD's but depending on price either would be great alternatives. See under for Corsair Force Comparison:Benefits␖.85 System Info Xbench Version [.three System Version Ύ.6.four ྪF616) Physical RAM 𖾐 MB Model Macmini3,1 Drive Kind Corsair CSSD-F240GB2 Disk Test␖.85 Sequential⎴.48 Uncached Create␍.13⎴.69 MB/sec ΒK blocks] Uncached Create␉.11⎧.37 MB/sec K blocks] Uncached Studyο.65Ε.46 MB/sec ΒK blocks] Uncached Study⒀.44⏕.11 MB/sec K blocks] Random♄.98 Uncached Create.17⎥.25 MB/sec ΒK blocks] Uncached CreateⓅ.77⎬.46 MB/sec K blocks] Uncached Read.98Ύ.74 MB/sec ΒK blocks] Uncached Study⚷.67⏑.17 MB/sec K blocks] |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/28/13 |
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It produced a remarkable distinction appropriate out of the box. It was extremely quickly but then it started slowing down. I asked OCZ tech help why it would slow down. They asked me some questions and i told them I cloned my current drive and then they responded with, " Hi Greg that is the issue. When you cloned the drive. We don't recommend cloning mainly because the file tables don't align effectively and you basically ruin the drive by corrupting the memory blocks inside the drive. We suggest you do a fresh install on it so that it can align appropriately and not lead to any concerns. Where does it say that in the product description? Manufacturer Response:Hello, even though SSD drives function considerably the identical as common challenging drives, the way they operate is extremely diverse. A fresh installation of your OS is essential to enable the drive to function at it's greatest. This is the very same for all SSD drives. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Please take a look at our help forums at the link under for a lot more details. Thank youExternal Link(s): OCZ Assistance Forums| |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/11/13 |
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- Rapidly Drive. RMA was comparatively painless. - Expense. A drive costing this much $$$ need to not be failing this speedily.- The drive failed following one particular month in service.- The firmware update method could be far more streamlined. I still don't know if my drive suffers from a manufacturing defect, firmware defect, or some other trigger. - There's a slightly much less than qualified feel in the assistance forums. Typically I would not blame the manufacturer for this but in this case the manufacturer has employees active in these forums. I now must back up my information in actual-time. This led me to Acronis, which I've disscovered is a amazing solution for this goal. I can not trust this manufacturer to make dependable drives when they die inside a month of use. Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are extremely sorry for the difficulty. We are confident that you drive will serve you reliably into the future. When our support staff may possibly have seemed somewhat informal, they are nicely educated and knowledgeable. We thank you for your input. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/17/13 |
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Arrived quickly, price affordable, NewEgg super saver, have to wait for in present cards, but will even out more than time. Changed my WEI to 7.3, with my i5 being the lowest. No issue installing Win7 with clean install. Does not boot particularly more quickly then my 7200 rpm HDD, and I am having difficulty telling extremely significantly distinction. I have installed all my present programs and nevertheless have 165gb free of charge, so there is a lot of area on this drive. I have had this in for 4 days so far, so not a lot history behind it. So far....so excellent. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/04/13 |
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This factor is faster than the original Vertex drives I was making use of and the storage is wonderful on it also. Has trim correct off the bat. I had the Vertex 120's due to the fact fw 1.1 and updated every single one particular via the present 1.5FW and now they have trim as well. I am fairly pleased with this drive though, tends to make a excellent principal drive. Very suggest. Cost, but I feel this 1 was a great deal and they will only get far more reasonably priced if people invest in the Tech, which I really feel is well work it. You get what you spend for. 4.0ghz AMD PII 9658gb of 1600 mhz DDR3 7-7-7-16XFX 4980 OCedOCZ vertex 2 240,2x ocz vertex 120sWD VR 300 |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/02/13 |
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Uncomplicated to install, quickly, worked like a charm I died with no warning today, in much less than 4 months. By no means once again will I trust an Operating program to solid state drives, thank goodness for Acronis saved me. Really hard to think given that it's solid state that it had something to fail. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/28/13 |
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When I installed this in a Dell Latitude E6410 (under really hard, constant use by a "road warrior" CEO) it ended a 10-year streak of complaints about laptop performance. Windows 7 Pro cold-boots to the login screen in about 30 seconds; Outlook is up and running in 60. The evaluations had me worried, but the drive is operating smoothly immediately after three.five months -- longer than some of his standard difficult drives lasted.Solid building, good packaging, incorporates a 3.5" bracket. The OCZ web site and forums are impressive, with loads of data, very good firmware assistance, and tools. This and other Sandforce-primarily based drives have a compatibility problem with the Intel 3100 chipset, and issues with Sleep mode -- mainly fixed by recent firmware updates. SSD overall performance can degrade over time if you repeatedly copy/create and erase lots of large files on the drive. There's an "AS Cleaner" utility you can run (in "FF" mode!) to restore overall performance on the empty portion of the drive, and a "secure erase" process you can use to wipe the drive clean and restore the complete issue to like-new efficiency. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/18/13 |
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- OCZ Warranty and buyer service are excellent!!- Outstanding read & create performance- SandForce controllers are the finest on the industry- Price/performance ratio nevertheless beats out the competitors- Utilizes much less energy than traditional HDDs- Comes with three 1ǘ" bracket - OCZ Vertex three model is out now and is more rapidly, but does expense additional...- SATA II now viewed as 'previous' generation- I own four of these drives and have them running in a RAID configuration and they are super quick and reliable. Just make positive to flash the drives to the latest firmware version Prior to you install the OS (refer to the OCZ website for the most recent version). And I highly advocate that you do NOT clone an current OS image onto these drives or you will run into alignment functionality problems. Commence from scratch and conduct a fresh OS installation. And make certain to load the necessary 'F6' SATA controller drivers through the OS set up!Many of the testimonials show a number of drives failing again and once more on their system. Effectively, this is an concern regarding their power provide or motherboard and is NOT an concern caused by the drive. Proof is the fact that I have been operating four of these drives for over three months and have not had one particular difficulty whatsoever. |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/31/13 |
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I replaced my old , C2D) MacBook Pro's HDD with this SSD. Luckily, mine wasn't DOA (I'm keeping my fingers crossed as a result of reliability seems to be an situation with these drives). My mac only has a SATA 1 controller, but it is still amazingly speedy (I am not sure how generally a drive would need to go over 𞲨 MB/sec in read/write speed in typical use anyway; speedy access instances are probably additional valuable than higher sequential speeds). Preferred upgrade I have ever completed: it is a new machine. 2 items: 1- Waking from hibernation on my MBP causes a kernel panic every single time (although sleep works fine); the new version of the firmware Ƒ.23) might repair this (I have FW 1.22). two- For mac customers, updating the firmware is apparently impossible without the need of erasing the drive and reformatting as FAT or NTFS (drives with HFS+ partitions aren't recognized by the FW update utility); you also require to use Windows to run the update utility. Mac/Linux assistance is minimal. |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/26/13 |
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First: getting read the reviews right here (and elsewhere) about this drive, I decided the cost was ideal but was a bit concerned as to the number of DOA units and early-failures logged for this drive - I decided to get in touch with OCZ tech help and query the techs as to any issues with large failure prices of particular lot numbers and so forth. The tech I spoke with appeared very knowledgeable and was forthcoming with his information. He assured me that OCZ has not had a higher return rate with this certain drive and that they have sold a large number of these with only a handful of returns. He also talked about (a truth which I was already aware of) people will generally only write reviews about a item if they have a poor encounter with it. He affirmed that the drive has each Trim and the Sandforce garbage collection support. Primarily based on the Tech's input and the return policy I ordered the drive (express from Newegg) and received it the next day. (More about the user experience in "other thoughts" below). none! (All Is Good - so far - soon after about 60 days use) Received the drive - Cloned it from my new Toshiba Qosmio x505-890 Laptop SSD using Acronis True Image Utility (free!) - swapped the OCZ ssd into the laptop and never ever looked back! (BTW this Toshiba laptop is fabulous!). Boot up and shutdown times are in the 20 sec range. Apps load instantaneously. 160 gb free of charge after a 50gb program develop. (Q for OCZ - where's my other 30gb!). The user knowledge with this drive is incredible! haven't run any unique benchmarks with this drive nevertheless - no will need to - it doesn't get any more quickly than instantaneous. Have Win 7 Pro, Workplace 2010 and a number of other apps loaded on this drive - all operate flawlessly and with out any hesitation. Make sure windows auto-defrag is disabled on this drive. I moved the swap file out to my mechanical drive and have pointed all the temp file dirs out to the secondary drive as properly. Couldn't be happier with this acquire (well - perhaps if it was a little cheaper I could). Am buying another for my Cyberpower Mainframe - er (Desktop) |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/15/13 |
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PCMagazine rates this as "Best of the Very best" I'm discouraged in obtaining this product or other products by OCZ because of their copy-n-paste support I've located browsing all the reviews.I'm completely afraid to venture away from Western Digital or Intel, who I have to admit have additional reputable assistance. Manufacturer Response:Hello, all of these responses are actually typed by hand (although the message may possibly typically be the exact same). Considering that all Newegg testimonials are anonymous and there is a size limit, we can only give a one shot, generalized help response here. We do have outstanding help forums accessible at the link below. We have qualified techs ready to help with any questions or difficulties that you might come across.Thank youExternal Link(s): OCZ Support Forums| |
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Rating: Review Date: 11/09/12 |
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This drive is Remarkable. I'm a challenging core software developer, and this drive has changed anything for me. Builds are incredibly quickly. Big check outs fly by. It's challenging to describe how considerably I love this drive with no gushing like a kid in love. We purchased three of these drives for three high-finish (hex-core three.33ghz xeon) workstations. It was a pain to get the machine's to recognize them, but soon after painfully pouring by the OCZ web site we figured out what to disable in BIOS to let the machines boot with the drives (It was the boot-rom AHCI bios extensions) Drive is good, but the OCZ internet websites and forums suck. They expect us to just magically guess that our drive was of some distinct class of drive/chipset in the forums for the support info. I would have preferred to jump straight to the drive's Help Page and get to an FAQ/Installation Support guide. Pouring through a poorly maintained and cluttered forum was frustrating. |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/30/12 |
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Great drive. Sad for those who get them DOA or they brick inside a month. Shouldn't have a three egg rating to be sincere even though. It could be the shipping techniques that bring about the drives to DoA and as far as bricking goes. A bit of a steep price tag but worth it in the extended haul, specially for choose games [Crysis, FFXIV, and so forth] that have immense detail along with design programs. Value for a single.Second is the mount. I have an ATCS840 and the mount it came with doesn't fit with the push pins on the drive bays, had to force it in. The holes on the mounting plate are insanely small. A single egg for this because push pin drive holders are now pretty a lot steam line. Stickers are cheesy? |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/02/12 |
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->Small->light weight ->FAST->uses little power->silent none so far :) |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/18/12 |
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Price at Newegg, speed, ez-install firmware/driver update procedure poorly documented |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/11/12 |
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Less costly than the competition, which in this situation, I think about the Corsair ForceAs quickly or faster than the competitors Cost per Gig This an amazing SSD for any wanting the new Sandforce controllers. The 1200 is as quick if not more quickly than the "enterprise" version 1500 so no need to have to invest the funds on that. The analysis I have accomplished claims only 7% overprovisioning of this drive as compared to 28% on the 200 Gig varieties of both OCZ and Corsair drive. According to reports, the performance on the Corsair will take a hit whilst the OCZ does not. In any case, I have gotten as close to claimed speeds of any drive I have ever applied. I am now employing this as my begin-up drive on my HPZ800 workstation with a three disk SAS Raid O. Will be purchasing a different for my laptop. |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/28/12 |
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It's solid state. When it performs it's fantastic. Also bad I can't keep it working... Appears like there is some top quality manage issues going on right here. I am not the only one with these issues. Also, I had to jump by means of hoops to even get the point to mount up in windows 7. See other thoughts and reply if you had to do these measures as nicely. I sent the initial drive back for an RMA. OK. So here is what I essentially had to do to get a broken SSD to be recognized in windows 7...Preserve in mind I don't recommend these actions below. Just send the thing back it's broken... But if you want to do it just to say you did it, comply with my ultra-awesome actions beneath.When beginning up 7 installation and your newly bought SSD is not there, choose the choice to repair. Essentially get to the command prompt in the repair utility. Do the following...diskpartlist diskpick disk (Mine was )clean (destroys any partitions-you will lose any and all information)make partition major align (Yeah funny huh)active (Activating the partition)format fs=ntfs fast (Or remove the fast selection if you have no life)exitNow your drive will be visible to windows 7 installation...as well undesirable it is going to disappear randomly anyways...Now go ahead and start your RMA course of action, because your SSD is nonetheless cr@p... |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/22/12 |
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Really rapidly. My Pc boots in two seconds right after the BIOS POST finishes. Failed right now following about 3 weeks of use. Drive doesn't show in POST on any computer (tried three) using a P45, SI, or JMicron controllers. BIOS takes an added ten - 15 seconds to start with the drive plugged in. Guess what's receiving RMAd...I hope to change to a unique controller for my subsequent drive. Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are extremely sorry for the dilemma. If you have had your drive more than 30 days, please pay a visit to our assistance link below and produce a support ticket for a direct RMA. Your replacement drive will have you up and running. Thank youExternal Link(s): OCZ Assistance Web page| |
Quickly and from a firm that has produced great merchandise. Reliability This is my second OCZ SSD solution the initial one particular was a Core Series V2 great item. In no way gave me a bit of problems, so when I required a bigger version I turned back to OCZ. I purchased an OCZSSD2-2VTXE240G it lasted three weeks just stopped functioning 1 morning. Corporation replaced it promptly, more than five days. The replacement worked for 1 hr. 3 weeks later I am nonetheless hunting for the replacement. If you are seeking at this solution don’t. The reliability is also a lot of an concern for this item to be employed in any significant perform environment. As well negative the corporation after produced a fine solution. Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are very sorry for the issues. Please speak to our assistance manager at 鷘) 733-8400, ext 206. We will be content to give you info on your replacement and will see that you are taken care of. Thank you