EPTA lot of people use Green drives because they're quiet, don't use a lot of power, are fairly cheap, and 5400RPM is good enough for simply storing data.
You're probably thinking of RAID 0 where the intended purpose is to simply improve performance.
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Womwomwom
5930 Posts
A lot of people use Green drives because they're quiet, don't use a lot of power, are fairly cheap, and 5400RPM is good enough for simply storing data. You're probably thinking of RAID 0 where the intended purpose is to simply improve performance. | ||
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John Peterson
United States9 Posts
On March 20 2011 04:18 Lyzon wrote: * My SSD died after i put my laptop to hibernate. Same here. Or to be more precis the Sleep mode in Windows 7. Now my SSD is sleeping for good! After I opened to lid to have it back from Sleep the Windows desktop had frozen, (although strangely the mouse pointer still worked, but everything else was unresponsive including ctrl + alt + del). After a hard reboot I'm told by BIOS that the Internal HDD is "Not Present". I don't know if it's Sleep mode itself or just a faulty drive. It was an OCZ Vertex 2 E Series SATA II 2.5" SSD 60GB. It only lasted three months! (Sitting in a Dell Vostro 3700 laptop all the time.) For about a month I had also gotten repeated, unexplainable bsods that was probably related to the ssd since I've never gotten them with a hdd in the laptop, sometimes after returning from Sleep, and sometimes ssd content had been damaged so that Startup repair had to be run to prevent another bsod during boot. | ||
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hackeron
United Kingdom1 Post
1) I took the OCZ SSD and my trusted Crucial M4 SSD 2) I installed the same OS on both (same system, same everything) 3) I tried various scenarios such as pressing reset button when system idle, pulling the power chord out, filling up ram and causing a kernel panic, etc. 4) My Crucial was just fine in all tests, the OCZ Vertex showed severe filesystem corruption, large directories simply missing, etc in all tests - including the system freeze test! I am sending my OCZ back on Monday. | ||
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
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TadH
Canada1846 Posts
On October 08 2011 09:48 JingleHell wrote: Even though OCZ has a bad rep, I'm a little curious about anyone who registers just to necro a thread to thrash them. Surprised his name isn't crucialOWNZ or something. | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
Then again, most of the other controllers from back in the day were not that reliable either. TBH I think that the hardware.fr SSD failure rates (returns really) that get quoted, are mostly looking at the time period when OCZ was mostly selling those Indilinx drives (pre SandForce). | ||
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
Wow, I could actually feel my IQ going down saying that. And I've heard it enough to have some karma saved up for it. | ||
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TadH
Canada1846 Posts
I'll be going with intel in the near future. | ||
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Stoids
United States636 Posts
*knock on wood* | ||
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Ben...
Canada3485 Posts
On October 08 2011 12:14 Stoids wrote: I have one in my Mac, I am making no statements on its status so I don't jinks myself. Though I kinda want it to die so I can get a bigger drive. My dad won't let me get a bigger drive since he spent like $200 on it last Christmas for me. Instead I may replace the optical drive with a second hard drive. It is supposed to be really easy.Had my OCZ for a while here, no problems. *knock on wood* | ||
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BoilOlo
United States139 Posts
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
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tsmitho
United States93 Posts
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Kinetik_Inferno
United States1431 Posts
I'm currently using a Crucial M4 64GB | ||
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Telcontar
United Kingdom16710 Posts
Remember to never touch defrag and keep updating the firmware! | ||
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maka.albarn
United States102 Posts
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Cyro
United Kingdom20322 Posts
On October 08 2011 09:39 hackeron wrote: I got my OCZ Vertex Plus 60GB - my test was simple:· 1) I took the OCZ SSD and my trusted Crucial M4 SSD 2) I installed the same OS on both (same system, same everything) 3) I tried various scenarios such as pressing reset button when system idle, pulling the power chord out, filling up ram and causing a kernel panic, etc. 4) My Crucial was just fine in all tests, the OCZ Vertex showed severe filesystem corruption, large directories simply missing, etc in all tests - including the system freeze test! I am sending my OCZ back on Monday. My crucial c300 (previous gen from m4) has massive data corruption issues. Fine when booting from HDD etc in same system using OS cloned FROM the ssd | ||
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shubcraft
Germany145 Posts
Always, and i mean ALWAYS, backup your data!! Regardless if its a SATA, SSD, SAS, internal or external drive. Every disk can die a sudden, unannounced death. I work for a storage company and our customers deal with 2 problems: 1) physical data loss (i.e.: dead disks, power outage, dead raid array or burned datacenter) 2) logical data loss (i.e.: corrupted databases or a stupid admin/user who hit the wrong button) Both of these points apply for private use as well so your minimal configuration should be a SSD for your daily doings and an external SATA disk to backup your stuff. If you have a gazillion of FABulous material on your PC so it wont fit the external drive, please at least backup your real important data such as personal documents, emails and pictures of your firstborn which you have not copied to someplace else yet. I get calls every week from friends who have friends who have a mate who told them that i can fix harddrives, simple fact is in 9 out of 10 cases you just cannot and without a valid backup you are doomed. You have been warned! ;-) Back top topic: I have an OCZ Vertex 2 in my gaming rig, an Intel in my desktop at work and a cruiser in my work laptop, all 3 have been totaly fine for over 1 - 2 years. I barely hybernate tho as a full reboot is a matter of seconds. | ||
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alwinuz
Netherlands77 Posts
Thankfully he had a HDD where everything was backed up automatically. To repeat after shubcraft: - Use SSD + HDD - If you use Windows 7: use Windows backup to save your data and an image of your SSD. If the SSD fails you can put in a new one and restore the image with the Windows install disc. Voila, you got your old Windows back. If you use other OS, use other backup software. - Have off-site backup! ---- Save important stuff on Dropbox, SkyDrive or something. ---- Consider using online backup for everything (costs 5$ a month? totally worth it) ---- Use an external hard drive, and leave that at your parents' house for example. Think about it, what do you loose when your house burns down? Remember, you always think about making a backup when it's too late. Don't postpone. Good luck keeping your data safe  | ||
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Patate
Canada441 Posts
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