11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Rock'n fast, but died after 6 months, February 11, 2011
This review is from: OCZ Technology 120 GB Agility 2 Series SATA II 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive (SSD) OCZSSD2-2AGTE120G (Personal Computers)
I have 3 computers, 1 Gateway FX desktop and 2 Dell Precision laptops, all running Windows 7 64 Bit. Over the past 6 months, I bought 3 OCZ SSD's. I replaced the primary boot drive on all three computers with OCZ SSD to get better performance. The performance increase, especially in boot time, is easily double if not more of what my previous 7200 RPM hard disks. I ran into my first problem with my OCZ Agility 2 120 GB in my oldest laptop, the Dell Precision M4300, when a week ago the computer reported "drive not found" upon boot. Well after less than 6 months of very light use, this drive is dead.
If you look at the
OCZ Technology 120 GB Vertex 2 Series SATA II 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive (SSD) OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G reviews you will see that this type of failure with OCZ drives is fairly common. At least I got a few months of use out of this product; some people experienced OCZ disks DOA and others failed in the first week. I rated this product 2 of 5 stars because for the first few months, it rocked. I purchased OCZ over other brands because of the excellent bang for the buck, price/value ratio. SSD (solid state drives) are expensive and are at least 5 to 10 times more expensive than HDD (hard disk drives) when looking at dollar per GB, but the speed breathes new life into older hardware. So be warned.
Since then, I have dug up my original hard drive and reinstalled it, and after hours of Window Updates, I'm back up and running. But boy is it slow. I do miss the SSD in my Dell Precision M4300. Since this is only a backup laptop, I'm not running out to replace it with an SSD since the old HDD is working fine. Word to the wise, make sure you have a good backup system for any important files before you rely on OCZ SSD.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Buy at your own risk, died in less than a year, August 12, 2011
This review is from: OCZ Technology 120 GB Agility 2 Series SATA II 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive (SSD) OCZSSD2-2AGTE120G (Personal Computers)
The drive was blazing fast when it worked; however it died after 10 months. For the price I bought it at ($233), this is definitely unacceptible. Please do yourself a favor and buy something else. There have been several other reviews with similar outcomes.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
A brick, April 24, 2011
This review is from: OCZ Technology 120 GB Agility 2 Series SATA II 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive (SSD) OCZSSD2-2AGTE120G (Personal Computers)
I know what you're thinking "I'll be one of the lucky ones to get a stable 120gb drive!" yeah thats what I thought! I've never had a hard drive fail....Until 10 minutes after installing windows 7 64bit on this one. Worked fine and then froze and then motherboard would no longer recognize it was there- even if i changed sata cables and changed sata port. Don't test your luck- go with a more reputably reliable drive.
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