That's my last OCZ SSD!

[GTP]

OCZ/Toshiba SSD's are junk!
I bought 10 of them (240Gb) and fitted the last one about 10 days ago. Out of 10 of them, I've had to replace 8!
Even the replacements fail!

 

[Larry Sabo]

That's a lot of grief for customers who never make back-ups, unless the drives contained just the OS. That's why I'm reluctant to go with SSDs for anything but the OS -- too much regret when it eventually fails, unless you set up automatic back-up to a HDD.

 

[HFultzjr]

OCZ/Toshiba SSD's are junk!
I bought 10 of them (240Gb) and fitted the last one about 10 days ago. Out of 10 of them, I've had to replace 8!
Even the replacements fail!

That's totally unreal!
Man, they must of really fallen asleep on that run.
Good luck.

 

[Your PCMD]

@Barcelona sorry to hear that. You may have got a bad batch. I've deployed several dozen of these with out a hitch and none have failed. (knock on wood). I even have 2 in my own personal system and have had for over a year.

In the way @Larry Sabo said, I always include a 1TB mech HDD and set it as the system drive with the SSD as OS only. Any downloads, docs, pictures, even installed programs get shifted to the HDD. After OS install, I set a small partition name Recovery and do a full image to it for recovery AFTER all programs are installed that need to be. That way, if the SSD fails, I can easily reinstall the OS with all the settings and points to locations of the HDD. Sure, its a bit more work, but its a CYA.

 

[Larry Sabo]

+1 to ^^^ this. The real problem is with laptops, where you only have one drive. In those cases, unless the customer also has an external drive always connected and running continuous back-ups, it's a ticking time bomb.

 

[Kitten Kong]

I usually try and get the client to go for the dvdrw adapter, so that they will have the additional drive space.

I mean, how often do they actually use their writer these days.

 

[sapphirescales]

We've installed over 500 of the OCZ Trion 150's without even one issue. The Trion 100's sucked. However I'm willing to entertain the notion that they've recently installed a cheaper controller or whatnot because these are pretty cheap drives. Basically unless you're using Samsung drives these days, you're gambling. Even the newer Intel drives use cheap crap NAND. They're just branded Intel. Intel didn't even make them.

I sell mostly Samsung 850 EVO's, but I do trial runs with SSD's all the time. My most successful so far has been the OCZ Trion 150's. Over 500 drives and 0 failures is pretty impressive. With Samsungs we've done about 2,000 drives and have had 0 failures, but they're much more expensive drives.

 

[GTP]

These were Trion 100's. Luckily all clients had backups (cloud or ext) so just a replacement (Samsung 850's) and move on.
These all failed over the last year. Last 2 were installed 10 days and 2 months ago, so will be interesting to see if they go.

 

[fencepost]

The real problem is with laptops, where you only have one drive.

I will note that for some laptops (but generally not ultralights) you may be able to put in both an NVMe/M.2 SSD and a regular HD. Laptops with the capability of adding LTE wireless connections are the ones most likely to have this, I believe on ThinkPads it's the same slot and can be used for one or the other.

 

[NJW]

I bought 10 of them (240Gb) and fitted the last one about 10 days ago.

Perhaps there's an argument for not buying large (well, larger than immediate requirements) quantities at a time. If there's a batch problem, you're likely to have multiple issues. Plus, if a given make & model subsequently shows issues, you've got inventory of questionable reliability.

If you're talking about ten drives over the course of a year, the failures have cost you more than any order discount for buying ten at once.

 

[GTP]

If you're talking about ten drives over the course of a year, the failures have cost you more than any order discount for buying ten at once.

At the time I bought 10 1TB Seagate's (non SSD), 10 Samsung 250GB Evo's, and 10 Kingston SSDNow's as well. I got them all on a "special" so intended to mix them up. This is why it has taken a year to use them up.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Threw out a few of them years ago.
I never will buy OCZ brand, quite a few years ago (Win98 days or something)...in the early days of OCZ, they were caught buying vanilla RAM sticks, putting their own custom covers on them, and reselling as high performance. The name stuck in my head ever since then as dishonest.

 

[lcoughey]

I bought one new OCZ once to cross reference the circuitry to find a short point on a client drive. At that point, discovered that the Sandforce controller went stupid and was unrecoverable. So, I decided to use the new OCZ in one of my systems and it lasted only a few months before going stupid. From what I've seen, it isn't so much the OCZ issue as much as the Sandforce controller they were using. At this point, you are all probably wise to stick to Intel & Samsung SSDs.

 

[trevm999]

The only SSD I've seen fail was an OCZ, a thin MBP upgrade model. However, the first SSD I purchased (and only OCZ drive purchased) was a REFURBISHED 60GB OCZ (risky eh?) but it is still going.

I've been getting cheap 120GB Kingston SSDNow drives, and then Crucial MX drives for 250GB. However based on your recommendations, my latest batch of SSD order was Samsung. $10 more than Kingston for 120GB, but it will be worth it for the speed increase alone.

 

[Easy PC]

Sandisk SSD's are still giving me bother with new HP ProBooks - just does not see the drive. Cloned a Sandisk for a Samsung laptop last week and it did not see the drive either - back to using Kingston and Samsung drives - cost a little more but worth it.