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Hey all, basically my OCZ Vertex 2 SSD has died. It has entered a state called Panic Mode or Engineering Mode. Basically, renders the drive undetectable by the BIOS. Thing is, even though (apparently) OCZ can unlock a paniced drive, if you RMA u will lose all your data and get a fresh drive.
Before you put this in blogs, I just wanted to give out a word of warning to all SSD users....
BACK UP YOUR DATA BEFORE ITS TOO LATE. SSDS CAN DIE INSTANTLY WITH NO WARNING AND UR DATA IS GONE
* My SSD died after i put my laptop to hibernate. Luckyly i keep backups of my most important work but stuff such as databases i forgot to backup and looks like its all lost now.
So please mods, leave this in tech support so people can see and backup before its too late, being in my position waiting for an RMA and wondering wtf to do with no data... is not fun
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happened to me aswell after 2 weeks of working flawlessly...
one day booted up and it wasnt detected by the bios. sent it in and got a new one 
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Wow same problem, OCZ Vertex 2. Looks like OCZ has some work to do.
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It's OCZ. Even their rams are not even close to being ok
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Crikey... I feel your pain. You pay so much (comparatively) to get the cutting edge and all of teh sudden it goes kaput.
If you had a SSD die can you tell us how for how long you've used the drive?
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On March 20 2011 04:52 MOOG wrote:
Crikey... I feel your pain. You pay so much (comparatively) to get the cutting edge and all of teh sudden it goes kaput.
If you had a SSD die can you tell us how for how long you've used the drive?
Im not even an early adopter... i only got it less then a month ago :'(
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Don't stop believing.
Mines still alive 
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On March 20 2011 05:03 reyk wrote:Don't stop believing. Mines still alive
lucky :D i never stopped beliving.. just telling ppl to backup before its too late :D
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yeah and if you really, REALLY needed the data you could probably swap the platters into new drive and recover the data. i don't think there's a way to do this with SSDs.
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oh i thought they were pretty good for being budget ssds, i know a lot of people with ocz vertex 2 without any problems. I think it sold a lot more than most ssds during the last 6 months because of the superior price and write speed.
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=O!!!
you're all scaring me, i have the same SSD (no problems.... YET!?!!?!)
well im hoping it doesnt happen to me ... lol not at least for another 2 years, because i'll probably get something new by then.
lets just hope i have 2 years of FUN FUN FUN FUN, friday
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I went with the cheaper Kingston model. Yay!
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I have a OCZ Vertex 2 @@...
Any recommendations for a program that automatically backups everything to my secondary HDD? I has lots of room so might as well :|
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On March 20 2011 05:33 Yiruru wrote:
I have a OCZ Vertex 2 @@...
Any recommendations for a program that automatically backups everything to my secondary HDD? I has lots of room so might as well :|
i think windows comes with a scheduled backup feature if you're really that concerned. ideally though, important information should be stored on a separate harddrive in the first place.
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Wow is this a testament to the reliability of all SSD drives? I am going to build a new PC soon and was thinking about taking the SSD plunge.
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On March 20 2011 05:56 schaefer wrote:
Wow is this a testament to the reliability of all SSD drives? I am going to build a new PC soon and was thinking about taking the SSD plunge.
Its hard to say with real accuracy as the technology is still pretty young. If you are able, i would suggest having a 80-120 gig SSD to house your OS, starcraft, and other vital programs. Then have a traditional HDD for the bulk of your stuff.
You can always get a traditional HDD for cheap and every so often copy and past your SSD data onto the it to back it up in a lazy manner.
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On March 20 2011 05:56 schaefer wrote:
Wow is this a testament to the reliability of all SSD drives? I am going to build a new PC soon and was thinking about taking the SSD plunge.
lets try to remember that normal hdds aren't exactly failsafe either. While I do not know the ratio of SSD failures vs normal disc hdds, I do not imagine it being that risky buying the SSD.
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I would not recommend ever buying OCZ. They just pulled some really fishy shit even besides this crashing. Apparently the Vertex 2 drives, the ones that are listed as the "best" were switched from a 34nm architecture to a 25nm architecture. OCZ did NOT create a different model number for the different unit and package/advertise them as the 34nm. The reason that is bad is because the 25nm models have a halved life expectancy as well as a noticeable decrease in speed and storage because apparently you lose like another 8gb's of space with the new architecture.
Oh and the only way to tell the two drives apart is to open it up, which voids the warranty.
Long story short, buy Mushkin or Gskill SSD's. They have bad ass speeds and still have the 34nm architecture and don't act fishy as hell like OCZ did.
http://www.overclock.net/ssd/942073-ocz-vertex-2-34nm-nand-versus.html
Oh, and it's also rumored that they were deleting posts off their site about the unannounced change to 25nm.
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Apparently it can be around a 43% decrease in speed. lOOOOOOOOOl
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