OCZ Technology 30 GB Agility Series SATA II 2.5 Inch Solid State Drive (SSD) OCZSSD2-1AGT30G

by OCZ

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6 x 2 x 5 inches ; 12.3 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B002C1B9HI
• Item model number: OCZSSD2-1AGT30G
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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  Electronics > Computers & Accessories > Internal Laptop Components > Solid State Drives

• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 2, 2009

Product Description

Product Description

The OCZ Agility SATA II 2.5” Solid State Drive (SSD) Series is the affordable midrange offering for enthusiasts, system builders, and mainstream computer users demanding the latest technology in this fast-developing sector of the storage market. This cost-efficient SSD offers a reliable upgrade from traditional hard disc storage while maintaining a price point that is truly within the reach of a wide range of consumers. Offering your notebook or desktop system the incredible benefits of flash-based storage, the OCZ Agility Series is the result of all the latest breakthroughs in SSD technology, including new internal RAID 0 architecture, updated controller design, and speedy 230MB/sec read and 135MB/sec write speeds. OCZ continues to place flash mass storage technology within reach of the average consumer with the Agility Series and delivers on the promise of SSDs as an alternative to traditional hard drives in consumer targeted mobile applications. The OCZ Agility Series drives feature a durable yet lightweight alloy housing, and because OCZ SSDs have no moving parts, the drives are more rugged than traditional hard drives. Designed for ultimate reliability, Agility Series SSDs have an excellent 1.5 million hour mean time before failure (MTBF) ensuring peace of mind over the long term. All Agility Series drives come backed a two year warranty and OCZ’s legendary service and support.

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars difficult to use this small of a drive; reads much faster than writes, April 8, 2010

By	Bryce Conner "College Student" (Syracuse, NY) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: OCZ Technology 30 GB Agility Series SATA II 2.5 Inch Solid State Drive (SSD) OCZSSD2-1AGT30G (Electronics)

I decided to leap into an OCZ SSD drive, to improve my system performance. Here's what I've noticed:

* 30GB is barely enough for Windows 7 and all of my programs. I had to do a special procedure to mount another drive to the /users directory, and compress the whole SSD drive. Everything runs so fast despite the goof of getting only 30GB, and having to compress.

* The read speed is about 3-5 times faster than the write speed. This is not true of IBM SSD drives, which have a more even, but slightly slower, performance, and cost more per GB, as of the last time I checked.

* I've had to chkdsk once already, when I was doing something extreme, my system hung and wouldn't boot after that. Be prepared to use a solid backup system, and you'll be fine.

* It says it will run umpteen million hours on the box, but who knows. That number of hours hasn't gone by since the beginning of the manufacture of the drive, so it is really a marketing number.

* 30GB is actually 30GB, not 30,000,000,000 bytes. (30x1024x1024x1024) Of course, when you format it, it loses some space to the file system, but not much.

Tip: Don't defragment the drive, it works fine fragmented, and if you do, you can shorten the life of it.

Tip #2: You don't need to flash the firmware: It comes with Rev 1.5, which is more modern than rev 1.4 on their website (as of April 9th, 2010)

It's really OK to treat it like a normal drive, except you do need to have a backup almost daily (just in case), which on my system, takes less than 10 minutes for 30GB.

Good luck, and full speed ahead!

5.0 out of 5 stars 3 x OCZ Agility - 30gb Raid 0, March 7, 2010

By	C. Mathews "HiTechRedneck" (Sunnyy, Florida) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This review is from: OCZ Technology 30 GB Agility Series SATA II 2.5 Inch Solid State Drive (SSD) OCZSSD2-1AGT30G (Electronics)

I purchased 3 of these for a Raid 0 array for my desktop..My specs. are -

Cooler Master HAF 932 case
MSI k9n2 platinum sli motherboard
AMD Phenom2 x4 -965 Black Edition overclocked to 3.92ghz
Corsair 750watt power supply
3 x OCZ Agility SSD hard drives - Operating system Drive and a few programs
1 - 500 Seagate hard drive - Game and media drive,Files ect..
4 x 2gb OCZ Reaper 1066 memory 8gb total
2 x 9800GTS Evga Videocards in SLI - mild overclock on both cards
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit operating system

This is being cooled with a custom water cooling setup.


Now for my reviews of the OCZ agiity SSD hard drives..


Now for the only downside..They weren't free....
The SSD prices are comeing down slowly. Until they are the main stream the price will stay up.

Once past the bios screen and the windows screen comes up I am at the desktop and working in 6 seconds..
My total boot time with the bios and raid detection screen is under 15 seconds..

All of the programs that are loaded is instant. There is NO lag or Skipping with these drives at all..
I would recomend this drive to any one..

The price keeps going up and don so make sure youo check back oftem..