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Sam

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12th May 12 at 15:41

In particular the 120/8GB Agility 3 and Petrol ones.

Seem to find loads of people online complaining about them being shit, is this due to firmware problems or bad components?

I always thought OCZ drives were meant to be good

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12th May 12 at 15:53

If you buy cheap stuff you get cheap stuff. No matter the manufacturer.

I have an OCZ Vertex Plus in my work MBP and I can't fault it.

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12th May 12 at 16:37

I'm still going to get the Crucial one I mentioned in my other thread, but I'm just thinking in terms of a cheap performance upgrade for older laptops whether this would be OK or not.

I suppose it comes with a 3 year warranty which is good for replacements if they are shit.

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12th May 12 at 16:45

I had an agility 2 for a year which gave me no problems and now using an agility 3. think it's just the usual case of internet overhype

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12th May 12 at 17:30

quote:
Originally posted by Sam
I'm still going to get the Crucial one I mentioned in my other thread, but I'm just thinking in terms of a cheap performance upgrade for older laptops whether this would be OK or not.

probably ideal for that. but for the main PC, get corsair

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12th May 12 at 18:25

OK, I recently had back my old HP laptop (got the GPU reballed as it fucked up due to overheating).

Curiosity got the better of me so I went down to PC World and bought one of these OCZ Petrol drives to try in the HP.

It froze twice when it got to the 'finalising settings' screen of Windows 7 setup, and then when I rebooted it the laptop wouldn't go past the HP logo screen (that shows up when you first power it up).

I put the SSD into my SATA hard drive cradle which I connected to my MacBook Pro via USB, nothing.

The SSD is now totally bricked, I guess those Internet complaints were valid

Going to take it back to PCW tomorrow for a refund. Think I'll just stick to Crucial or Corsair for SSDs now seeing as their other products like RAM and in Corsair's case PSUs all work brilliantly.

Don't buy OCZ Petrol SSDs!

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12th May 12 at 18:55

Update #2 - just ordered the Crucial 128GB SSD off Amazon which should hopefully get to me on Monday at some point.

Here's hoping I have better luck with this

Should have just stuck with my gut instinct and bought this first instead of being so impatient!

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13th May 12 at 05:45

Will be interesting to see how the Crucial works. A fast or slow drive should still boot.
The fact that it's freezing could be a CPU / memory problem.
Time will tell...

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13th May 12 at 07:56

I thought this too at first, but when I plugged the old HDD back in (with Windows 7 installed on it) it works perfectly. Doesn't freeze or do anything weird.

Seems to be a manufacturing fault with the SSD according to these other sites.

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13th May 12 at 09:07

I picked up a crucial 128gb for my MacBook in the week, can't complain it's transformed it!

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13th May 12 at 15:27

Well I returned the OCZ this morning. They didn't seem particularly bothered about why I was returning it, I thought I'd have to get into a long argument with them over why it's not working and why I wanted to return it

Can't wait to receive the Crucial SSD tomorrow

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14th May 12 at 10:52

Update - received the Crucial SSD this morning, sucessfully installed Windows 7 on it and currently downloading/installing a zillion updates for it...

Even though I just installed Windows and it's only running at SATA I speeds, it seems much quicker than the old 120GB HDD it replaced!

Once I've got it all set up is when I'll be able to tell for sure I guess!

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14th May 12 at 21:22

Got a Crucial M4 128gb in my laptop and an OCZ Agility 3 120gb in my desktop, can't fault either of them at all.

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15th May 12 at 13:02

Just purchased a new PC for work, overclocked Ivybridge I5 to 4.6Ghz and 3x 128GB Crucial M4s for a raid0 array

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15th May 12 at 13:40

Isn't M4 a low budget SSD?
Seems like Crucial M4 and OCZ Vertex Plus are the route to go, if price is an issue.

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15th May 12 at 13:56

I could have bought an Intel SSD if I wanted to but it would have been a bit pointless seeing as it's just going to live in an old HP laptop.

And the Crucial worked out the box unlike the OCZ...

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15th May 12 at 15:54

Mine is the M4 as well

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15th May 12 at 19:40

I think Intel is the way to go for reliability

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15th May 12 at 20:18

Crucial M4 is a great little drive at really good price. Seen so many problems with the vertex 2 & 3 lately it's amazing. So many drives failign after 12 months old.

So many new drives out atm and because samsung slashed the chip prices SSD prices have been slashed. Gonna have to wait and see what further reliability is like.

Early signs are the M4 is the drive to go for.

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16th May 12 at 07:22

I'm still using it perfectly happily in my laptop.

I'm tempted to buy another laptop (but with SATA III) and install it on that for the full experience

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16th May 12 at 09:59