OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD2-2VTXE90G 2.5" MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

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Got this during black friday for 贎 off its typical price, not as well negative. Had some problems with it at initial due to Corsair 800D backplate sata adapter for hotswap bays. Had to unscrew one particular of the backplates and manually hook it up. Nevertheless can't get it up to par, runs only about 225-235mbs Can't appear to get it running about 275-285

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every thingthis drive smokes, i couldnt be happiervalue, functionality, warranty not a one particular in response to some other reviewers, know what youre speaking about prior to you drive down the rating of a wonderful solutionthis drive is one of the fastest ssds on the market, really only topped by the PCIe model with almost 2x the speeds-On the other hand, that model is genuinely 2 ssds on a single pcb configured in RAID0....SO, if you wanted to RAID 2 of these, for significantly less income, you would even outperform those as properly. suggestions to anybody that buys primarily based on ratings, at least appear at the reviews just before you scratch a prospective buy off your list, as a handful of m0rons can drive down the overall egg rating (or any rating on any website for that matter) and result in you to miss out on a fantastic product

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super quick bsod soon after about 3 months, and computer will not recognize it anymore. Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are quite sorry for the challenge. Please take a look at the link under and create a assistance ticket to get in touch with our help employees. We will be pleased to help you, and will see that you are up and operating as rapidly as attainable. Thank youExternal Hyperlink(s): OCZ Help Web page|

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This model has a great reputation, and from every thing I've observed, the reputation is deserved. (WinXP Pro 64 Bit, AMD 890GX motherboard). None discovered. Use this as your method disk, and buy a large, cheap HDD for all your photographs, videos, and whatnot.

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Runs excellent, silent (obviously), particularly rapid, fantastic price tag. I have a Cooler Master Cosmos case. The drive won't match in the good removable drive bays with, or without having the included adapter. I had to put it in a 5.25 bay making use of the integrated adapter and a three.five"-ɱ.25 adapter. The match is not fantastic. OCZ mixed up my rebates (I bought two diff drives that have been eligible for rebates) and they approved a single (even even though it was for the wrong drive), and denied the other. NO way to get a hold of them to right. I'm out ฮ mainly because of it.

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Greate cost as often. Newegg shipping saver. Ordered on 11ቷ񳏊 - received 12Ǘ񳏊. Operates Completely as described. Mail in rebate was a bit of a pain, but other than that nothing. It is not seriously a con because i am finding much more income back$$$ Rapid Rapidly Fast... loaded windows 7 enterprise 64 bit on this in like 25 minutes! Improved reboot from 1.5 minutes to 35 Seconds..

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Quicker than a traditional tough drive, provides decrease energy consumption, and is quiet. In my DFI X48T2R this SSD is slower then my older OCZ Vertex Turbo which has died and was replaced with this one particular. It was a pain to install as the Bios didn't recognize the drive occasionally and needed often a reboot till it lastly did. I ended up acquiring a Marvell Sata three controller and the drive was OK with that but was a lot slower then on the Intel ports. I did not like this SSD at all, I shouldn't have to jump by way of loops to get it going. The older generation from OCZ appear to work with older chip sets without having troubles but all of them died on me inside a year. I now use this vertex two in a laptop and purchased a Vital 300 SSD for my desktop Pc. The Critical runs without having any hiccups and super rapidly in it. Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are sorry for the issues with your older chipset. Please take a look at our help forums at the hyperlink beneath and post in the Flash/SSD section for help. We will be satisfied to assist in any way attainable. Thank youExternal Hyperlink(s): OCZ Support Forums|

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Insanely Quickly!!! Havent attempted this drive individually mainly because I have two in RAID . Developing the array was uncomplicated and with a fresh install of Win 7 Pro, it recognized right away and installed promptly. I have a 128k Stripe size and atto reports more than 500 MB read & create with file size starting at 128kb file size. with 8MB file size Reads @ 533 MB and Writes @ 527 MB.Remarkable worth. OCZ drives are remarkable. The only concern I have is obtaining the two in raid. I know TRIM commands cant be passed in raid so im curious to see how they hold up. For anyone purchasing these drives, the box clealy says they are RAID capable. These drives are good with or without having raid so pick 1 up!

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Installed this 90gigger in my four+ year old 17 inch HP dv8000 laptop and the all round efficiency went through the roof! The tough drive I was utilizing was a prime named brand 300gig 7200 RPM two.five inch drive that worked fine, but noticed the HDD indicator lamp lite almost continuously for the duration of booting either Window XP or Windows 7. I believe that if your HDD access indicator is complete on during boot, then the drive is possibly the bottleneck in your program. I bought the OCZ drive for my laptop immediately after getting a 120gigger ocz 3.five inch type element for my desktop core i7 machine and noticed it booted and opened apps far more than twice as quick as the WD black HDD I was utilizing. I also bought a 60gig ocz SSD for my older, ASUS quad core 775 primarily based method immediately after the a single I got for the HP laptop. NOW, this is crazy, but the HP laptop, operating a normal situation Centrino dual core running about 1.6gig clock actually will boot and shut down considerably quicker than either desktop! Commonly about 35 seconds for XP and two Absolutely nothing to complain about. So far, and it's not a large deal is, that I can not get Windows XP to come out of sleep or hibernation successfully. Pc comes to life, but screen stays black. I have to do a full warm boot to get op sys back. Researching the subject only yielding possible incompatibility with the bios. Of course, HP does not help this machine anymore, so updating bios is a joke. I'm confident drive is operating no exactly where Close to it's possible either. The controller is probably way to slow to tax this drive. Yes, these drives are new and nonetheless quite pricey dollar to storage space ratio, but, still the cheapest way to genuinely bump up your pc's speed! I do not forsee costs plummeting any time soon due to demand and crisis in Japan IMO. When the day comes SSD's get competitive with spinner drives, mechanical drives will go by the way of the Edison crank-up victorola record player!

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Quickly Don't count on a rebate. I have been waiting for two rebates for 13 weeks given that they had been approved. 8-10 weeks is a lie and the 12 weeks that they stated their rebates have been taking is a lie as well. After I emailed OCZ about the rebates my tracking numbers for the rebates became no longer valid. Practically nothing but run around. Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are sorry for the rebate delay. We will be content to get in touch with the rebate property, and will insure that all valid claims are paid. Please e mail rebates@ocztechnology.com and contain your full name, address, item, and spot and date of acquire. Thank you

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Quite fast and snappy when newOS loads really quick Is dying right after three months, lockups now a lot more frequent. Drive goes to a red light and seconds later OS hangs as drive dissapears. I will try a "clean" of the drive prior to returning to OCZ. Sad this occurred so quickly. Other folks on OCZ forums report very same factor. Purchase it and attempt it, maybe you'll get a excellent one particular. it is worth it. Manufacturer Response:Hello, we apologize for the difficulty. Please pay a visit to the hyperlink below and make a help ticket to get in touch with our staff to arrange for a warranty replacement. Thank youExternal Link(s): OCZ Support Page|

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Fast. Installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit in less than ten mins. Opens PS CS5 in much less than 2 seconds, opens quite substantially any other system quickly. Scores a windows rating of 7.6. Temp is sitting at 1C. Low power usage. When I enabled ahci I was able to get it to run at the advertised speed working with ATTO. After installing and updating windows, PS CS5, and a dozen other applications, which includes one 6gb game, I nevertheless have 45 gb left. None whatsoever. Technique Specs: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bitAMD Phenom II X4 955 C3 stepping @ 3.9Ghz 32c idle 48c Load prime 95Prolimatech Megahalems CPU Cooler with IC7 Diamond Thermal compoundScythe DFS123812-3000 "ULTRA KAZE" 120 x 38 mm push pullASUS Crosshair Formula III four GB G.Talent Ripjaws DDR3 1600 @ 7-eight-eight-24 1.65v5870 Crossfire (one Sapphire one HIS both reference)HT | OMEGA STRIKER 7.1CORSAIR CMPSU-750HX 750W Power Provide Antec 1200 CaseOCZ Vertex II 90gb SSD boot driveWestern Digital Caviar Black 1TB x2 Western Digital Caviar Black 640Gb Asus 23 inch monitors x3 in Eyefinity 42 inch Panasonic plasma 1080p with 50ft HDMI cable through 5870 for single monitor gamesLITE-ON Black 24X DVD WriterOnkyo 5.1 Receiver Dynalab Liquid Cooled Towers

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Quite quick, quiet, keeps power consumption fairly low. Boot time for Fedora was around 5 seconds. Immediately after about 3 months of each day use, the drive began behaving oddly. It will function for about five-10 minutes at a time, and then quit responding to any system calls. Utilizing the brief window of usage time I was capable to recover all of the vital data I had on the drive. Even so, it truly was a discomfort trying to time it suitable to make sure the drive did not absolutely lock up.I even attempted to clone the drive using a industrial grade cloner without having accomplishment. The key partition came back having bad superblocks. Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are extremely sorry for the difficulty. Please visit the link below and develop a support ticket to get in touch with our staff. We will be delighted to assist you with an RMA for a warranty replacement drive. Thank youExternal Hyperlink(s): OCZ Help Web page|

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Especially rapid when it worked.OCZ support forums are beneficial. Drive failed after about 2 months of light use. One particular day Windows did a BSOD for the duration of boot up. After that the drive would not be recognized in BIOS. Attempted installing it in one more computer and it wouldn't recognize there either. A red light comes on the back of the drive which after a bit of study is a "FTL" error. There are 2 lights on the back of the drive: 1 for energy, one for FTL (flash translation layer). Under operating operation, they ought to both be green. Did a RMA by way of Newegg, but they wouldn't take it back as a result of the UPC code on the box was missing. I cut it out for the primary-in-rebate. Now I am stuck with a broken drive (assuming Newegg ships it back to me) AND I am out the eight bucks shipping for for sending it in for RMA to commence with. I guess the moral of the story is don't do the mail-in-rebate if you might need to RMA later. Commonly I'm a diehard Newegg supporter but I'm fairly disappointed with Newegg for this one. The next step is to go through the dreadfully slow OCZ warranty approach and be out yet another 8 bucks for shipping. Ugh. Rampage III Gene w/i7 920 @ 4ghz. 12GB ram. Radeon 5830. Win7 Pro x64. Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are rather sorry for the dilemma. Following 30 days all warranty claims should be processed directly via OCZ. We will be delighted to assist you, and will be confident to get you a replacement drive as easily as potential. Please stop by the link beneath and make a help ticket to get in touch with our staff. Thank youExternal Hyperlink(s): OCZ Help Web page|

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This drive is just SICK, SICK I inform you. I've read numerous testimonials on these SSD drives and have constantly wanted to get one, but always to high priced. I decided to take the plunge and get a single. I can't inform you how substantially faster it tends to make my Pc (XPS 410, 5 years old.) The boot time from the time I hit the energy button till the desktop is 30 sec!!! Genuinely incredible. It wasn't no cost Make positive you get the most current firmware. Also download the SSD utitlty that will "tweek" your SSD to get the most of out it.

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Small, compact and work fantastic Not as fast as I had hoped. I went from a 76 second boot with two raptors in raid to a 66 second boot with 2 of these in raid .... Hardly worth the 踰 to get them. Not certain if it there is one thing I missed to not make them appear quite rapid but if I could I would have returned them and stayed with my Raptors... Manufacturer Response:Hello, we will be pleased to look into your installation and boot instances on our assistance forums at the link beneath. Thank youExternal Link(s): OCZ Help Forums|

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very quick switching among screens and apps ie. from starcraft2 to desktop and back was two-three sec now much less than 1sec easy. incredibly responsive now. was suprised with how a lot more response 2 of these in raid are compared to 4 wd hfls300 raptors in raid . watching the windows7 efficiency mon it was displaying sustained read and writes of more than 800mb/s when putting in applications now. not to shabby they show that as advertised i must get 250mb/s sustained compose on just one drive i just edge over that at 260mbs with two in raid0 with passmark on w7 with fw 1.25 on the drives. it may just be passmark and the size files its writing but it was sort of a downer seeing my 10k drives win in that catogory but its 4v2 to be honest so what ever i7-940 2.9ʄ.1ghz, 12g ocz plat 1333򜦒mhz 7-7-7-20 1N, 4 wd hfls300 raid0, two ocz vertex2 raid0, HIS hd4870, rampage two intense ,1200w silverstone,w7x64. its fast cant wait to get them onsale again need to have to get four running in raid0 to put the hurtin on the raptors 2in r0 passmarked at 440mb/s read, 260mb/s write, 478mb/s random r/w. four raptors 411 mb/s write ,420 mb/s read, 26mb/s random r/w thats the huge pickup for certain randoms r/w these things are killer and if your like me and demand perfection (use all your sata2 port in raid0 and just go ludacriuos speed) its way worth it :D SSD's rule!!!!!

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Crazy fast, Got it for 赅, not considerably else to say. :D Size, but 90GB seamed to be adequate for music, photographs, apps, and 2 games or so with ㅌgb space left. Nevertheless 240GB is 踿-蹢, seams worth it if you want everything on an SSD. I sold this and I'm going for that 240GB one.

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Very fast boot instances and just about every program loads and runs quicker through 1st few hours of up timeAdditional shock resistant than regular 5400 rpm or 7200 rpm spinning challenging drives, far better for laptops like my 14" Asus N82JQ-A1 laptop.Nonetheless it has incredibly small capacity, so I can't shop all my music, movies and other stuff on here, I wish I bought a Seagate Momentus XT SSD Hybrid drive which as massive 500GB Capacity and cost a lot less. About 1 month into use, this SSD is acquiring stuttering challenges, if the computer is on for a lot more than 10 hours or the laptop or computer was to sleep and resumed from it, this SSD will start out to stutter, so when I variety a thing, my laptop freezes for two seconds then the words seem, and when I click on anything, it freezes for 2 seconds then it clicks. I spent practically 赨 for the finest of the best Sandforce SSD and it nonetheless stutters ??? I believed low cost and old SSDs will stutter thats why I purchased the most costly Sandforce controller and it nevertheless stutters.I updated to the Most recent 1.24 OCZ Vertex 2 firmware and it doesn't repair the stuttering, most current motherboard BIOS also didn't fix the stutteringI attempted AHCI and IDE mode, it stutters in AHCI and my laptop won't even boot, blue screen error in IDE modeI googled how to fix SSD stuttering, and read about 20+ pages of comments on tech web-sites, the only answer I discovered was keep restarting your laptop or computer, which isn't incredibly handy Quite disappointed in the OCZ Vertex two, and in all SSDs in general, while these days SSDs are considerably more affordable and bigger than SSDs of 4 years ago but they are nevertheless really little capacity and quite pricey per GB, which isn't so undesirable if you're obtaining excellent efficiency but for me, I have to restart my laptop just about every handful of hours simply because if my laptop have much more than a few hours of up time the SSD stutters.I guess I ought to have purchased a Seagate Momentus XT SSD Hybrid drive as an alternative of this OCZ Vertex 2 SSD, the Hybrid drive is slightly slower than the SSD but has about 5x greater capacity, 500GB vs 90GB, about half the cost, 贘 vs 赨, and possibly doesn't stutter into a handful of hours into technique up time like this Vertex 2.I believe I'll give SSDs a different attempt in a few years when SSD price/size ratio and efficiency improves, as effectively as no stuttering, so until then, I would suggest a Seagate Momentus XT Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are sorry that you are getting complications. We will be content to assist you with troubleshooting on our support forums at the link under, and make suggestions to get you running properly. Thank youExternal Link(s): OCZ Assistance Forums|

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Ran good in my Win7ኜ, ASUS mobo, quad core Intel Pc for 60 days, then BSOD on boot-up. BIOS will no longer recognize the drive. Precise exact same BSOD and BIOS failure as reported by numerous other individuals. Appears that OCZ has a serous QC issue on its hands.No "live" phone tech assistance. You call a phone number which tells you to create a assistance ticket by way of the site. If this is your only Pc and it is now dead... what are you supposed to do? Utilised an additional Computer to register a trouble ticket. The dead Pc is my bread-and-butter Development laptop or computer. How long need to I expect the e-mail exchanges, RMA processing, and shipment to take? The clock is ticking... Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are sorry for the challenge. We do have a full help employees able to take calls. When they are busy, you will get the recorded message you describe. We also have completely staffed assistance forums obtainable at the link beneath where our buyers can get timely answers to their queries. We also have a wealth of info obtainable there as properly. Our support employees will be happy to assist you, and will getting you operating again as swiftly as doable. Thank youExternal Link(s): OCZ Support Forums|