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Curse you sandforce!

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ZodaEX

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Ugggh. Just had my 3rd Sandforce SSD go crazy on me. First in early 2011, My Vertex 2 just stops being detected and becomes a paperweight. Then a couple of months later, I buy a Corsair Force GT and it makes my computer reboot randomly about ever 2-3 days. And now last week my Kingston HyperX 3k went crazy and is making my apps crash and my minecraft server unstable to the point of being unusable. On the flip side I still have 2 Crucial M4s going strong and two Intel 320 SSDs that have been flawless from day one. I know i'm not the only one to have similar experiences. It's pretty unbelievable that company making these sandforce chips hasn't been sued out of existence by this point. I've had less issues booting windows off of old compact flash cards. Probably beating a dead horse but it makes be feel better to tell someone about it as I wasted at least 300 dollars on these bad products.
 
Why not move the OS to one of the M4s and then move the SF drives into a non-OS role?
 
I gave up on sand force after my 13th failure...it's just part of the SSD buying cycle for most
Buy cheap, failure, then buy right

Btw you might enquire about the non public soft recall on those OCZ drives to hopefully get some real help instead of just another junk drive
 
ZodaEX said:
Ugggh. Just had my 3rd Sandforce SSD go crazy on me. First in early 2011, My Vertex 2 just stops being detected and becomes a paperweight. Then a couple of months later, I buy a Corsair Force GT and it makes my computer reboot randomly about ever 2-3 days. And now last week my Kingston HyperX 3k went crazy and is making my apps crash and my minecraft server unstable to the point of being unusable. On the flip side I still have 2 Crucial M4s going strong and two Intel 320 SSDs that have been flawless from day one. I know i'm not the only one to have similar experiences. It's pretty unbelievable that company making these sandforce chips hasn't been sued out of existence by this point. I've had less issues booting windows off of old compact flash cards. Probably beating a dead horse but it makes be feel better to tell someone about it as I wasted at least 300 dollars on these bad products.
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IMO, I think it could be a system compatibility issue. On the other hand, Top SSD manfacturers like Intel, Sandisk, Plextor use Sandforce controller. There aren't any reported issues till date that I know of. Atleast, I've not seen any issues
 
I hear you, I have a Vertex 2E collecting dust on a shelf.

Bough a Vertex 2 before the OCZ rep went to hell. The damn thing held together nicely until the end of 2012.

The SSD just died and refused to be recognised with any motherboard.
I got excited when I found I still had a little of the warranty time left. Unfortunately the shop just send me a new Vertex 2 in the mail.
The damn thing is bound to fail horribly, so why should I even consider using it.
 
Have you tried updating the firmware on the SSDs?

I updated the firmware on my Vertex and it went from flaky to stellar.
 
staticlag said:
Have you tried updating the firmware on the SSDs?

I updated the firmware on my Vertex and it went from flaky to stellar.
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I was not running latest, I do not know about the OP.

The latest update if from June 2012, It claims to cure a sleep issue.
It is probably a fix to the bug that killed a lot of OCZ SandForce drives during 2011.

It's to little to late, once faith on a drive manufacturer has been lost, it takes lot to get it back.
 
Try power-cycling it..(plug-unplug during boot) then download ocz toolz and burn to disk to update firmware.My first 2 OCZ drives crapped out..I RMA'd..still have one..I bought 2 more as well :) The one I got from RMA has crapped out once already,but it has been revived :D
 
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staticlag said:
Have you tried updating the firmware on the SSDs?

I updated the firmware on my Vertex and it went from flaky to stellar.
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My Corsair and Kingston sandforces I just RMAed and had them send me working models. And to the guy who said it was probably a hardware compatibility issue - it wasn't as once I got back the replacement drives they were fine.

As far as my in warranty Vertex 2 that crapped out I still have it because OCZ won't repair it for me. (I can't remember the shop I bought it from unfortunately but it was made less than 3 years ago.) OCZ told me that my Vertex 2 isn't fixable since it's a Vertex 2e that is lacking the jumpers to fix it. - Funny though when I bought it there was no way of knowing it was the crap E version.
 
OCZ likes to try to deny RMA.IMO That is unacceptable..The thing says 3-yr warranty.It's been less than 3 years.I would not let that go.I'm sure it was over $100
 
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