EPTMy OCZ SSD died :( - Page 5
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Womwomwom
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Patate
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gruff
Sweden2276 Posts
On November 22 2011 15:38 shubcraft wrote: 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. Backup is good, just don't do what I did and drop the backup drive on the ground right after you have made a clean install of windows. -_- I lost all of my media files as well as most of my saved work from university... Thankfully I'm such a messy organizer and could recover some of the more important things from usb drives and old computers. | ||
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Mr.F.
United States62 Posts
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nihlon
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darkcloud8282
Canada776 Posts
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DeepBlu2
United States975 Posts
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Sxcerino
Canada58 Posts
the 320 drives aren't that fast, it's comparable to solid, maybe agility of the ocz series and usually, the higher the capacity, the faster the drive. the newegg black friday deals are pretty good, if it's your first drive, go for it | ||
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Ashby
Australia204 Posts
I then was asked to get it replaced but I said I want a refund as there is no way I wanted to risk having to send it back to OCZ again. I also bought a corsair SSD drive a few months after I got my OCZ refunded, the Corsair was faulty aswell :@. SO got the COrsair SSD refunded also! SSD's in my opinion are unreliable, although, I have heard that the Crucial and Intel drives use a different type of SSD and are more reliable but have much lower speed. Either way, I won't be touching SSD's again for at least a couple of years unless I see evidence of increased reliablility across the board. | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
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Sxcerino
Canada58 Posts
basically if you're looking for more reliable with good speed ssds, but comes with a price premium go with intel 510, crucial m4 if you're looking for cheap, fast but more unreliable drives, you can roll the dice and go with a sandforce based drive (vertex, corsair, kingston, patriot). heard the later two has better QA so might be slightly more reliable. who knows | ||
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freetgy
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kirdie
Germany221 Posts
Google Code for example gives you a free svn account. SVN is quite old however so I would look around and get one with git or mercurial because it's faster and better. This achieves multiple things: - it is really safe because unlike a usual backup it does not share a physical location - you have the data backed up by a single "svn commit" - you have the data on your new pcs with just "sv checkout" - you have the data synchronized with your other pcs with just "svn update" - someone needs the file from you and you're not at home? just browse to your google code site and give them the link. - same if you are in another place and you need some of your files - you don't have to spend much time to search for your backups and find the right one - you can always restore to a very near point if you commit often enough - even if you overwrite a file you can just restore the older version with one command Problem is however that this puts up your data for everyone to see but for some files that is not an issue. Also it's not that good for binary files. | ||
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TapeDeckChris
Canada38 Posts
On November 26 2011 17:26 Sxcerino wrote: crucial m4's speed isnt muchhhhh lower, it's good enough that you won't notice the difference basically if you're looking for more reliable with good speed ssds, but comes with a price premium go with intel 510, crucial m4 if you're looking for cheap, fast but more unreliable drives, you can roll the dice and go with a sandforce based drive (vertex, corsair, kingston, patriot). heard the later two has better QA so might be slightly more reliable. who knows i agree 100%. ive seen 2 vertex drives die within a few weeks, my friend replaced with an intel 510 and it runs like a dream for months now. if you cant afford to spend that little extra for quality, i would recommend not getting an ssd until you can. if only to save you the head-aches that can ensue. | ||
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Xapti
Canada2473 Posts
Wasn't a big deal that everything wasn't backed up, but it was a bit of an annoyance. | ||
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Skipper240
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Most of you guys know that Crucial is the retail branch of Micron which is why the M4 / C400 are essentially the same drive except for the branding. However, it turns out that every drive Crucial gets actually goes through Micron first - and any drives that are below spec are automatically defaulted to Crucial. So if you end up in a situation where you have to choose between the two with little to no price difference, the C400 is always the safer choice. Edit - I feel like a shining star just passed over my head like on those "The More You Know" commercials. | ||
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haduken
Australia8267 Posts
On November 26 2011 19:01 kirdie wrote: I just put my important non-private data (basically work and other projects, like my home page or source code or stuff for the university like presentations) in a version control system. Google Code for example gives you a free svn account. SVN is quite old however so I would look around and get one with git or mercurial because it's faster and better. This achieves multiple things: - it is really safe because unlike a usual backup it does not share a physical location - you have the data backed up by a single "svn commit" - you have the data on your new pcs with just "sv checkout" - you have the data synchronized with your other pcs with just "svn update" - someone needs the file from you and you're not at home? just browse to your google code site and give them the link. - same if you are in another place and you need some of your files - you don't have to spend much time to search for your backups and find the right one - you can always restore to a very near point if you commit often enough - even if you overwrite a file you can just restore the older version with one command Problem is however that this puts up your data for everyone to see but for some files that is not an issue. Also it's not that good for binary files. Try bitbucket for private hosting or even dropbox (You can setup dropbox as a GIT repository). But i think a SCM is a bit beyond the expertise of non coders. | ||
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haduken
Australia8267 Posts
On November 28 2011 05:27 TapeDeckChris wrote: i agree 100%. ive seen 2 vertex drives die within a few weeks, my friend replaced with an intel 510 and it runs like a dream for months now. if you cant afford to spend that little extra for quality, i would recommend not getting an ssd until you can. if only to save you the head-aches that can ensue. Even the intel 320s are good enough. There is honestly very little difference between the older 320s and the new 510s for real world usage. I just got myself a 120GB 320s and I'm more than happy and paid $50 less compare to Crucial and $100 less compare to 510s. So what if it's not SATA3 :/ | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
btw 320 is newer than 510 actually. Or rather, the launch date is later, the flash is newer generation, the firmware version is presumably newer, but the controller is older. | ||
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FabledIntegral
United States9232 Posts
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