SSD Problems

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NeonFlak

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I have been using SSDs since OCZ's first indilix release. All of my SSDs are some various model with an indilix controller from OCZ.

With that out of the way, how many have run into corruption issues?

All but one of my drives has been rma'd to OCZ at least once. But now all of my drives are having this corruption issue whether they are in a raid array or not. All of my pcs are intel based. I have this issue on every pc in my house (including laptops). I've tried many many different sata cables. RMA's were for issues other then this corruption issue. The corruption issue is getting worse, I'm having to do a secure erase and reinstall of the OS almost every month now. Waiting to hear back from OCZ to try the destructive flash procedure. But I'm also noticing more and more corruption problem posts on OCZ forum as well.

So my question, has anyone else run into this problem?

I have 6 OCZ SSDs, various models but all indilix based and all 6 are having this "problem". It's getting to the point I just may dump them and go back to HDs. As my main rig just had the issue 11 days ago and it is already coming back....
 
What models?

Using 8 x 60gb ocz vertex 2 raid 0 no problems.

(sand force)
 
Vertex, Agility and Solid2, can't remember the exact count for each.
 
My Vertex 30gb started doing this a few weeks ago, I was doing a sanitary erase/fresh install every few days which is very strange because the first 9 months I had the drive were trouble-free. Finally the 4th time I just went ahead and took the damn thing out and put 7 back on my 640AAKS while waiting to see what I want to do. Like you said....tired of this issue coming back over and over; that, coupled with the intial setup requirements and maintenance if you need to reformat again....man, the speed gained on startup from the SSD is starting to pale to the problems and routine stuff I put up with to get it. At this point I'm fed up so (again) I just went back to the trusty AAKS because it gives me 0 problems. I can't have my machine down for 24+ hours on a fresh install every few days especially since I do freelance work at home so I have customers to answer to when my system does go down.

In any event I posted on the OCZ forums and just got an email from Ryder with the destructive flash file I need for my NANDs....I'm going to try that and see if that fixes the problem. If it doesn't, I'm going to RMA the drive (and probably put it FS and stick with my platter drives).
 
zero2dash said:
My Vertex 30gb started doing this a few weeks ago, I was doing a sanitary erase/fresh install every few days which is very strange because the first 9 months I had the drive were trouble-free. Finally the 4th time I just went ahead and took the damn thing out and put 7 back on my 640AAKS while waiting to see what I want to do. Like you said....tired of this issue coming back over and over; that, coupled with the intial setup requirements and maintenance if you need to reformat again....man, the speed gained on startup from the SSD is starting to pale to the problems and routine stuff I put up with to get it. At this point I'm fed up so (again) I just went back to the trusty AAKS because it gives me 0 problems. I can't have my machine down for 24+ hours on a fresh install every few days especially since I do freelance work at home so I have customers to answer to when my system does go down.

In any event I posted on the OCZ forums and just got an email from Ryder with the destructive flash file I need for my NANDs....I'm going to try that and see if that fixes the problem. If it doesn't, I'm going to RMA the drive (and probably put it FS and stick with my platter drives).
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OCZ drives (especially the Indilinx ones) weren't known to be the most reliable, bug-free SSDs you could buy. I don't know why you'd just give up and go back to platter drives when the Intel SSDs are solid as a rock. You hear of VERY few problems with them. I wouldn't buy anything else at this point, as even though the write speeds on the Intels aren't as high as Sandforce or Crucial, at least they are consistent...and they aren't plagued with firmware bugs or throttling issues.
 
can someone link me to the secure erase program for Vertex 2.5" ssd's? All I can find is OCZ Toolbox for Vertex 2's and it doesnt seem to work
 
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