meat_loaf writes:
> You prefer OCZ? That company has an extremely bad rep and is bankrupt for making bad quality products.
Blah blah, the usual nonsense based on
early fw issues of
old products. Makes me laugh people
keep trotting out this stuff. Talk about beating a dead horse. They fixed the issues, and the later models
like the Vertex4 and Vector were massively better. Ever occured to you that maybe one reason they went
bust and got bought out was that continued unwarranted PR put people off buying their later,
very good
products? ie. people complaining about them way past when it was relevant just made it worse. Plus, all
other companies including Intel and Samsung have had their own SSD screwups (oh how quickly so many
here choose to forget the bricked '8MB' Intel fiasco). OCZ's mistake was releasing some models far too
early with too many problems, but they stopped doing that after the early Vertex series.
I have more than 30 OCZ SSDs (Vertex2E/3/4, and Vector/Vector150). Only the 2/2E/3 and other older
models were affected by the early fw problems, and once the fw is updated they are absolutely fine, I've
not had problems with any of them. I do however avoid the low-brow products like the Solid. I also have
various Samsung models (830/840/Pro), Crucial, Corsair, Sandisk, etc. Maybe 40 or 50 total, lost count.
In the numerous system builds I've done for other people, I've used Samsung 830/840/Pro for C-drives
and either Samsung or OCZ Vector/Vertex4 for high-IOPS data drives. Univ. of Utah is running one of
them right now, filled with three 840 Pros (128B, 256GB and 512GB), so take back your comment saying
I 'prefer' OCZ because that's inaccurate; I use OCZ because they work fine, just like the other models
I use, but I tailor the task to suit. For my own systems, I have lots of V2E/3s as C-drives on benchmarking
systems (at least two dozen) along with some other models (many of the V3S are MAX IOPS units), while
my own systems have a Vector 256GB with a 5GHz 2700K/M4E, Samsung 840 250GB with a 3930K rig,
840 Pro 256GB in another 3930K, several Vertex2Es in my SGI Fuel (OCZ fw is one of the very best for
use in systems that do not support TRIM), V3 in my firewall/gateway, and a RAID with eight 120GB V3 MXIs.
> On the other hand there are top 3 brands that are popular for SSDs on the market.
And if you'd bothered reading my other posts you'd notice I consistently recommend the
Samsung 840/EVO/Pro as a system drive, but point out that models like the Vertex4
and Vector are just as good as well, along with the GTX and various others. I like the
Samsungs because they have excellent long term consistency, but the Vector is just
as fast if not quicker, and the Vertex4 is very good too. I fitted a 512GB Vertex4 in a
3930K build as a cache drive for AE, it gets absolutely slammed every day, running A-ok
for almost a year now.
Top brands... talk about filtered history. People have forgotten now that the 840 was
slower than the 830 in some ways when it came out. Reliable? Yes. Fast? Sure, but
I'd be just as happy with a Vector or Vertex4, which is why I use all of these models.
And btw, at least one can s.e. a drive with OCZ's Toolbox, can't freakin' do that with
Samsung Magician most of the time.
> 3. Kingston ----> Good brand since its RAM sticks are very well regarded
The only Kingston RAM kit I ever had (4GB DDR3/2K) was absolute rubbish. I will never use
Kingston again. I don't think Kingston's RAM is well regarded at all. GSkill or Mushkin on the
other hand, definitely. Hence why my 3930K has 64GB GSkill running perfectly @ 2133. There,
how's that for selecting narrow experience and generalising? Same thing you did with OCZ.
Ian.
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