Hard drive and SSD technology improvements continue

And to think that last year I bought a Vertex 2 60GB for R1200, these days you can buy a SSD that is double the size and double the speed for cheaper.
 
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My advice from prior experience: Stay away from OCZ. Had two drives fail on me in two months. No support from vendor, and no proper firmware update cycle.
They're relatively new to the game. I trust the likes of Intel and established brands.

Personally I will never buy OCZ again.
 
jacauc said:
My advice from prior experience: Stay away from OCZ. Had two drives fail on me in two months. No support from vendor, and no proper firmware update cycle.
They're relatively new to the game. I trust the likes of Intel and established brands.

Personally I will never buy OCZ again.
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Sorry to hear about your problems. On my side everything is ok though. My old OCZ still works without missing a bit. And 2 months ago i bought a 128GB one and is even faster. If 2 ssd's failed consecutively, have a look at your power supply and/or mother board. SSD's are sensitive to voltage fluctuations/spikes
 
intel8080 said:
Sorry to hear about your problems. On my side everything is ok though. My old OCZ still works without missing a bit. And 2 months ago i bought a 128GB one and is even faster. If 2 ssd's failed consecutively, have a look at your power supply and/or mother board. SSD's are sensitive to voltage fluctuations/spikes
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They were installed in different machines, and both on UPS.. different make/model UPS
 
Never thought I'd see the day when 6 Gigabit/sec drive channels are considered bottlenecks.
Bloody awesome.
 
I have a Samsung 830 512Gb SSD in my iMac and its a wonderful drive. Apparently one of the most reliable and the main reason I praise it is because it doesn't use data compression like those with Sandforce chips and therefor it is faster when using with an encrypted partition.
 
jacauc said:
My advice from prior experience: Stay away from OCZ. Had two drives fail on me in two months. No support from vendor, and no proper firmware update cycle.
They're relatively new to the game. I trust the likes of Intel and established brands.

Personally I will never buy OCZ again.
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I had the V2 120GB and it died after about 10 months. I sent it back to Sybaritic and a week later it was replaced with a V3 120GB. The V3 has been fine so far.
I have also purchased a V4 256GB for my PC as their controller issues are apparently resolved now.

Would not write them off so quick. Their drives are pretty good.
 
NomNom said:
And to think that last year I bought a Vertex 2 60GB for R1200, these days you can buy a SSD that is double the size and double the speed for cheaper.
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In 2008 the Samsung 60 GB SSD cost R10,000. My Lenovo X300 came with one. It's still working fine with zero problems. It's only 100 MB/s but still feels fast.
 
+1 to what biometrics said.

I'm still using my OCZ Vertex 30GB, which cost me R1400 in 2010, even though I imported it!
It is still going strong with Ubuntu on it and it is still pretty fast in comparison with a normal HDD.

I now recently bought an OCZ Agility 4 128GB, and it is also working rather well.

If you had issues with RMA, then you should just use a better retail shop - like Wootware/Prophecy Shop.
These 2 shops has helped me so much in the past with RMA's! They really went out of their way to get things swapped out/refunded for me.
 
What a revelation this article is. To think that there could be a relationship between time and cheaper faster computer technology. I'm stunned.
 
NomNom said:
And to think that last year I bought a Vertex 2 60GB for R1200, these days you can buy a SSD that is double the size and double the speed for cheaper.
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I bought my 64gb for R 1700, so paid R 500 less than me. Though I had my SSD fix earlier than you, so the R 500 premium was worth it.
 
cerebus said:
What a revelation this article is. To think that there could be a relationship between time and cheaper faster computer technology. I'm stunned.
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To someone like me who doesn't follow developments in SSD technology closely, and don't know how much the prices have dropped, it's a nice summary of the state of affairs.
 
I find SSD very strange as there seems to be a lot of consumers using it but in the business sector we have not even looked at SSD. We are still consistently using SAS drives.
 
TheGuy said:
I find SSD very strange as there seems to be a lot of consumers using it but in the business sector we have not even looked at SSD. We are still consistently using SAS drives.
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In the enterprise sector SSD's has been around for quite some time, especially with big database systems where you need lots of IOPS (input/output per second).

Just have a look here:
http://www.slideshare.net/gharriso/ssd-and-the-db-flash-cache
http://www.slideshare.net/rajadurai/ssd-based-storage-tuning-for-databases * Rather old (2009)

If you're not using SSD's at your office, then you're definitely behind the trend!
 
NomNom said:
And to think that last year I bought a Vertex 2 60GB for R1200, these days you can buy a SSD that is double the size and double the speed for cheaper.
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Know what you mean. I bought a 120GB Agility 3 in the beginning of this year for R2100.
 
MeercatMilker said:
I have a Samsung 830 512Gb SSD in my iMac and its a wonderful drive. Apparently one of the most reliable and the main reason I praise it is because it doesn't use data compression like those with Sandforce chips and therefor it is faster when using with an encrypted partition.
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I have an OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 3G for over a year now. It's a 512GB SSD but only shows 480GB - as the remaining data is for over provisioning which allows more efficient wear leveling - so the drive keeps the same speed over time.
Assembly is in the USA too which eliminates most faults and failures.

OWC also have a 960GB SSD out but that's a RAID-0 combo of two 480GB (512GBx2) drives. I would stay away from that because of the dangers inherent to RAID-0.
 
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