The point of RAID is to add fault tolerance to the hard disks that are carrying your data. So if a hard disk kills itself, you don't lose all of the data on that disk - instead you take the dead disk out, put a new disk in, get the RAID array to rebuild itself, and if everything works as intended you end up with no lost data and just lost time.

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.

John Peterson

United States9 Posts

May 28 2011 14:45 GMT

#62

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.

hackeron

United Kingdom1 Post

October 08 2011 00:39 GMT

#63

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.

JingleHell

United States11308 Posts

October 08 2011 00:48 GMT

#64

Even though OCZ has a bad rep, I'm a little curious about anyone who registers just to necro a thread to thrash them.

TadH

Canada1846 Posts

October 08 2011 02:24 GMT

#65

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.

Myrmidon

United States9452 Posts

October 08 2011 02:30 GMT

#66

And people are worried about OCZ (and anybody's really) SandForce SSDs. Vertex Plus is Indilinx, from back before OCZ bought Indilinx.

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).

JingleHell

United States11308 Posts

October 08 2011 02:45 GMT

#67

Well let's just get all technical and specific, Myrmidon. You're just an OCZ fanboy, I see right through your unbiased presentation and supporting evidence!

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.

TadH

Canada1846 Posts

October 08 2011 03:13 GMT

#68

TBH I'm starting to dislike my Kingston SSD, constant file corruptions and disc checks. I've had to reinstall windows twice so far.

I'll be going with intel in the near future.

Stoids

United States636 Posts

October 08 2011 03:14 GMT

#69

Had my OCZ for a while here, no problems.

*knock on wood*

Ben...

Canada3485 Posts

October 08 2011 03:31 GMT

#70

On October 08 2011 12:14 Stoids wrote:
Had my OCZ for a while here, no problems.

*knock on wood*

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.

BoilOlo

United States139 Posts

October 08 2011 03:47 GMT

#71

ya, i have the OCZ 120gig SATA2 SSD for about 3 months on my main comp ( that i havn't been on much cuza work.....stay in school kids) and no major problems yet. however, i have noticed a certain scratchy sound whenever the SSD is looking for info. idk if its on its way out or what but i never heard this sound before on the comp. wondering if this is the begining of the end on this drive as i have heard numerous complaints about OCZ drives.

skyR

Canada13817 Posts

October 08 2011 03:51 GMT

#72

SSDs do not make noise. What you're hearing is from something else...

tsmitho

United States93 Posts

October 08 2011 16:11 GMT

#73

I have had mine for about 11 months. so far so good. even if it did crash I wouldnt really care. the only thing I have on it is my OS which can be reinstalled in an hour. all important data is on other drives.

Kinetik_Inferno

United States1431 Posts

October 08 2011 16:24 GMT

#74

OCZ products are inherently unreliable. SSDs in general are also kind of funky what with the page/block relationship when writing and erasing data.

I'm currently using a Crucial M4 64GB

Telcontar

United Kingdom16710 Posts

October 08 2011 16:28 GMT

#75

My OCZ Vertex SSD (250gb) has been going strong for 2 years now. I really hope it doesn't die on me for at least another 2. If it does, I'm so fucked since I have all my programs and games on there.

Remember to never touch defrag and keep updating the firmware!

maka.albarn

United States102 Posts

November 22 2011 05:49 GMT

#76

My ssd just died, but it is picked up by the BIOS. When I try to boot from it, I get a blue screen saying windows has failed to start because of missing component. When I boot up from another hard drive, windows does not detect ssd at all, even though BIOS did. Does anyone know anything about this, looked around and it seemed to only happened to me.

Cyro

United Kingdom20343 Posts

November 22 2011 06:34 GMT

#77

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

shubcraft

Germany145 Posts

November 22 2011 06:38 GMT

#78

Slightly OT but most needed advice:

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.

alwinuz

Netherlands77 Posts

November 23 2011 00:55 GMT

#79

SSD of my little brother died too last week (OCZ Vertex 2).
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