OS SSD died. What to get now.

[deejayburnout]

Disaster

My OCZ 60GB Vertex 2E SSD has suddenly died.

its 3 years old on the 30th of this month and i am wondering if i can go down the route of getting it replaced as it should have a 3 year warrenty.

if that is a no goer then what about a replacement.

i was looking at one of these for a replacement > http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/storag...10a-ssd-256gb/

Thoughts ???

Thanks

[iTsHutchy]

Get a kingston HyperX SSD worth every penny

[MrJim]

Disaster

My OCZ 60GB Vertex 2E SSD has suddenly died.

its 3 years old on the 30th of this month and i am wondering if i can go down the route of getting it replaced as it should have a 3 year warrenty.

Since their takeover of OCZ, I don't think Toshiba are honouring previous warranties - although I could be wrong. Worth checking though...

[Domestic_Ginger]

Anandtech do a ssd comparison. They have one benchmark across all years iirc.

Crucial mx100
Kingston ultra plus
Samsung 840

All are quite cheap, been umming and arring over getting a 128 and moving my 64 to the laptop. The one you linked looks OK.

[Agent]

Crucial and Samsung are the current recommendations from most people.

Kingston have been playing silly monkeys and swapped NAND out for lower quality stuff on some of their drives. I'd stay away from them purely due to that. They're also quite slow with firmware updates.

Benchmarking wise, There isn't much between either of them in real world performance.

[Bagnaj97]

Crucial MX100 or Samsung EVO seem to be the top choices currently. The Samsung is faster in benchmarks but probably not noticeably different in real world usage. The Samsung uses TLC NAND, which has a shorter lifetime (fewer program/erase cycles) than the MLC NAND in the Crucial.

Either is a great choice, but personally I chose the more durable drive over the faster one. The 256G Crucial is currently £73.79 on Amazon, which seems a bit of bargain!

[MrJim]

The Crucial MX100 is a good SSD, but it doesn't perform all that well in the lower capacities - I'd go for 256Gb or higher. At 128Gb I'd go for the M550 instead, although the cost difference still makes the 256Gb MX100 better value.

[MrJim]

Either is a great choice, but personally I chose the more durable drive over the faster one. The 256G Crucial is currently £73.79 on Amazon, which seems a bit of bargain!

The durability of the MX100 isn't necessarily any better than TLC based drives, as the former uses Micron's newest 16nm NAND. As NAND cells get smaller, the number of program / erase cycles they support decreases. Of course all SSDs use wear-levelling & over-provisioning to mitigate cell failures, and the MX100 does still carry a 3 year warranty.

[watercooled]

According to this, it looks like your drive warranty should still be honoured: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7727/a...czs-warranties

[deejayburnout]

I have had feedback from OCZ and they have asked me to

1. Uninstall the SSD, have it sit powerless for about 1-2 hours.
2. Clear the CMOS of your mainboard as described in your mainboard's manual.
3. Test the SSD again, also on different SATA cable and port if possible.


none of that worked.

my warranty runs out 30th of this month, so good timing for it to pack in. wonder if they will replace it with a newer model?

thanks for the pointers guys.

[philipmathews]

OCZ seem to be the only manufacture that has died for me too. My Samsung and Curcuals going strong! (in my experience they will replace it with a newer model but possibly of a lesser range) Although who bought OCZ....

[Marcvs]

Samsungs all the way here - haven't had one fail yet (either at work or at home)

[adidan]

My Samsung and Curcuals going strong!

My Crucial M225 64Gb is still going strong from 5 years ago (roughly the same price then as 512Gb today ).

Yup, warranty return - great timing and they should replace with a newer model I would hope.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

It appears the 840 EVO has a bug especially for older data:

http://www.overclock.net/t/1507897/s...a-in-the-drive
https://translate.google.com/transla...604&edit-text=

[deejayburnout]

well i got my RMA number and was sent yesterday.

Fingers crossed i get a new one and not a refurb.

Will update when i know more.

[peterb]

well i got my RMA number and was sent yesterday.

Fingers crossed i get a new one and not a refurb.

Will update when i know more.

I guess it will depend on the terms of the warranty - if it says "New for old" then you will get a new one - otherwise it is possible that it will be refurbished - which isn't really a problem if it refurbished back to the original specification.