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SSD Pricing Plummets

I wouldn't take an OCZ SSD if it were free. Samsung, Kingston, Crucial, thanks.
 
BladeVenom said:
OCZ drives got mostly favorable reviews from tech sites.
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Almost everything gets "favorable" reviews from most websites. Very few sites will shit in a product as that could cost advertising revenue later, just the nature of the business. People dislike OCZ because they put out a lot of bad SSD drives into the market and had bad suppport.
 
Anand seems to think pretty highly of some of the OCZ drives. Maybe they deserve some flak for the garbage sandforce drives, but the Vertex 460 seems pretty solid.
 
Who cares if they throw some good drives. The point is their leadership was plenty happy enough to throw crap on us multiple times and they will do it again if something goes wrong. Bad quality control and testing. Manipulative product component switching. If a company pulls something like that they can have a "time out" for 5 years minimum for screwing people over.
 
I guess I'm just picky, I only want to buy from Crucial or Samsung.
That being said, I can't say SSDs prices are plummeting, but I can say they're finally low enough you don't have an excuse NOT to have one in your PC or laptop.
Really, fixed a laptop without one today and jesus friggin christ that thing took forever to do ANYTHING with that 5400rpm HDD in it.
 
rudy said:
Who cares if they throw some good drives. The point is their leadership was plenty happy enough to throw crap on us multiple times and they will do it again if something goes wrong. Bad quality control and testing. Manipulative product component switching. If a company pulls something like that they can have a "time out" for 5 years minimum for screwing people over.
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It's Toshiba now—they're just keeping the OCZ brand name.
 
Doesn't matter first because much of the ssd leadership is not going to be replaced second toshiba bought the bad name, and kept it so they will pay for it. I will not touch or recommend an ocz linked drive
 
ME thinks that the hate towards OCZ is a case of "YMMV".... cause I have bought several of them in the last few years and neveranottaproblemo for any of them, ALL of which are still running just fine....even the one in the machine from which I am typing this post, which is over 3 yrs old.....

Are there better ssd's out there ? Most definitely, but I too am glad to see the prices finally falling down to more reasonable levels, hopefully this will spark a buying frenzy and they will drop even further so everyone can afford & enjoy the benefits of better performance for less $$ :)

Now if only the mfgr's are ready for the increased demand, so we don't end up with a supply shortage ....cause we all know what happens then........ :D
 
rudy said:
Bad quality control and testing. Manipulative product component switching. If a company pulls something like that they can have a "time out" for 5 years minimum for screwing people over.
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Is this really true? If so, you're perfectly justified in your opinion and I might even share it.
 
Here is an article about the switch, Basically OCZ has a drive that is successful and well known. They swap out the nand for inferior nand and it results in BOTH lower capacity and lower performance in the same named drive. They don't bother to tell people this until it is exposed. This was a prime bait and switch case OCZ new it and tried it anyway. When they switched a major component they should have made a new product name so people knew to review it and judge it separately.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ocz-vertex-2-25nm-ssd,2867.html

After that OCZ had a run of time where they were dumping low reliability SSDs onto the market. This is why you always saw them at cheaper prices than anyone else. But lots of people were having failures. You couldn't go anywhere with out seeing hot deals on OCZ garbage. This is when people who were more willing were all flocking to Samsung and Intel SSDs because they were scared of the smaller brands almost entirely because of the garbage OCZ was throwing out.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/277608-32-failing-drive-reliability-performance
 
Heya wabbit, a certain unnamed peroon got mad at me for cooling someone a terrorist over there, so been over here a bit.

Oh well, have been wanting to awhile now, that's a bit immaterial.

Sorry, went off topic a bit.
 
^ +1
My slim ps3 is rocking a 120gb vertex II that came from my rig in 2010, almost 5 years old now.
 
I was the recipient of a faulty OCZ psu, ddr and cpu cooler (bad retention clip).
No way in hell I'd ever buy ANYTHING with the OCZ brand name stamped on it again.
They'd get great reviews so I'd pick up an emergency replacement by OCZ at Bestbuy and sure enough it'd screw up and cost me more than if I just waited on New Egg.
 
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