Dead SSD after a month!

[thescreensavers]

When I read about people having this issue I Thought it was a flewk.

Well my OCX 60gb Vertex 2 only one month old (jan 5th) is no longer being detected by the bios.



WTF! Ugh

Well thank god all my data was put onto my hdd

 

[a.white05]

Hi, one month is good. My 120GB OCZ Vertex 2 died after only one week. I'm thinking mine was related to the S3 sleep mode problems I've read about. So far I'm not impressed with OCZ's RMA process.

 

[Numenorean]

I have a 120GB Vertex 2 in my main system and my laptop and both go to sleep and so far no problems.

What I read was that it was an earlier version of the Intel RST driver that was causing that.

I had one DOA though.

I don't store any critical data on my SSD's at all. That is on my RAID 1 arrays. I do have some important things on my laptop but I have an external HD that I can hook up to it as well as I use dropbox to sync the files since they are not that large.

 

[zip1385]

Before I even entered the thread my guess was OCZ. I was right. Good luck getting it replaced. OCZ's RMA sucks and I will never be buying OCZ again.

 

[a.white05]

Yes, I've been very disappointed w/ OCZ's RMA thus far. I just had to go through an RMA on a WD drive recently, and it was so painless - I even printed the UPS shipping label right from their site! The OCZ experience thus far has not been as easy.

 

[Voo]

Just make sure that you don't get a new drive with reduced performance (and size!) back! You probably can't make much if they do though, but it would still be extremely interesting for the rest of us.

 

[thescreensavers]

Just make sure that you don't get a new drive with reduced performance (and size!) back! You probably can't make much if they do though, but it would still be extremely interesting for the rest of us.

Uch, I just read about that now too lol

I need to call them, they do advanced replacments

 

[thescreensavers]

So apparently the drive I had was the 25nm one lol

It was on 1.27

fuuu so I never saw how fast the real vertex 2 is

 

[Vidman]

that's why I went with Kingston. Top of the range customer service.

 

[thescreensavers]

Arent Kingston rebranded intels?

 

[tweakboy]

So is the lesson to not buy OCZ SSD ...thx

 

[FSH42NA]

Arent Kingston rebranded intels?

most of them aren't

 

[Anexate]

just to think, that one of the main marketing slogans, beside speed, was that SSDs practically never fail (as opposed to known HDD failures).

to quote one of the biggest PC magazines: "a SSD has never failed on us".

Anyway, the web is buzzing with OCZ failures of the new 25nm drives; apparently OCZ is taking down reports from its forums as a mean of "damage control".
and they were just a good month on the market to cause such explosive results

 

[Blain]

You should start a new thread titled...

"Post all your dead OCZ SSDs here"

 

[watzup_ken]

I think this is just unlucky. Hope you get one that works well.

 

[Emulex]

i bought a seagate 7200.11 it died in less than a day. should we start a thread on everythign that just dies?

OCZ is like g.skill. low end. the go-bots. the all new pioneer kuro rubbish.

 

[Blain]

i bought a seagate 7200.11 it died in less than a day. should we start a thread on everythign that just dies?

Yes, of course we should.

 

[thescreensavers]

Update:

OCZ RMA Sucks. Amazon accepted my return. I just decided with all the crap online just to get my Money back.

 

[Emulex]

ahem ocz sux

buy an intel

 

[thescreensavers]

Intel does not offer anything good at 120 bucks lol

40gb is too small

 

[frostedflakes]

Yes, I've been very disappointed w/ OCZ's RMA thus far. I just had to go through an RMA on a WD drive recently, and it was so painless - I even printed the UPS shipping label right from their site! The OCZ experience thus far has not been as easy.

WD's RMA service is excellent, definitely above average. OCZ's is on-par with most other manufacturers IME, not better and not worse. Just the typical you send the part to us on your own dime, wait a week or so while we take our sweet ass time to process it, then we send a replacement out deal.

Anyway, FWIW, I've owned a 60GB Vertex and 120GB Vertex 2 and both worked great. But anecdotal evidence doesn't really mean squat, you need to look at the aggregate data. This article has some interesting info on return rates (which, keep in mind isn't necessarily the same as failure rate, it could include returns that are due to user error, people returning drives that worked fine but they just decided they didn't want, etc.) for HDDs and SSDs with a French computer parts retailer.

http://www.hardware.fr/articles/810-6/taux-pannes-composants.html

One interesting thing is that the return rate is higher for SSD in some cases than HDD. Suggests that SSD may not in fact be more reliable than a well made HDD. It also lists return rate for SSD by brand. Most seem to have a pretty similar return rate, between 2-3%. For example, based on the data I don't think you could claim with a high degree of certainty that Corsair SSDs are more reliable than OCZ. However, I think it's pretty safe to say that Intel SSDs tend to be much more reliable than other manufacturers.

 

[jwilliams4200]

For $120, the best SSD you can get is the 64GB Crucial C300.

 

[Xorp]

WD's RMA service is excellent, definitely above average. OCZ's is on-par with most other manufacturers IME, not better and not worse. Just the typical you send the part to us on your own dime, wait a week or so while we take our sweet ass time to process it, then we send a replacement out deal.

Anyway, FWIW, I've owned a 60GB Vertex and 120GB Vertex 2 and both worked great. But anecdotal evidence doesn't really mean squat, you need to look at the aggregate data. This article has some interesting info on return rates (which, keep in mind isn't necessarily the same as failure rate, it could include returns that are due to user error, people returning drives that worked fine but they just decided they didn't want, etc.) for HDDs and SSDs with a French computer parts retailer.

http://www.hardware.fr/articles/810-6/taux-pannes-composants.html

One interesting thing is that the return rate is higher for SSD in some cases than HDD. Suggests that SSD may not in fact be more reliable than a well made HDD. It also lists return rate for SSD by brand. Most seem to have a pretty similar return rate, between 2-3%. For example, based on the data I don't think you could claim with a high degree of certainty that Corsair SSDs are more reliable than OCZ. However, I think it's pretty safe to say that Intel SSDs tend to be much more reliable than other manufacturers.

Translation:

For the first time, we also integrate SSDs in this article type. The rates of failure recorded by manufacturer:

- Intel 0.59%
- Corsair 2.17%
- Crucial 2.25%
- Kingston 2.39%
- OCZ 2.93%

 

[n7]

Not sure how OCZ's RMA sucks so bad?

I RMAed my 60 GB Agility without them requiring a receipt, & got back a new sealed one.
Only way for it to have been better would be if they were willing to cover shipping to them, but that's rare & i wouldn't expect that.

I've got 5 Intel SSDs, zero failures.
2 OCZs, one failure, so my luck so far hasn't been great with OCZ SSDs, but i wouldn't go saying they are way worse than everyone as i've not had other brands to compare to (other than Intel).

 

[Emulex]

think about it. intel makes the full meal deal. ocz is scrapin' the barrel for the highest margin parts to sell to you - ever wonder why they come up with so many strange size brands? Parts du jour. you guys know how it works shenzen stylee.