Editing my previous review
If you follow the tweaks that are on the OCZ website, this drive is a welcome upgrade to ANY computer, PC or laptop. The price per gig ratio is still a little high, but that will come down as more people adopt this technology. In my desktop PC, I have noticed considerably faster bootup speeds, and most web pages load almost instantaneously. I wish the drive was bigger,...
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I bought a Solid State drive from OCZ, with shipping and customs it came to [...]$ I read the package and it said "Faster access times, shock resistant, exceptional performance, excellent reliability, more efficient and more durable than convertional hard drives, top it off with an excellent MTBF and you have an excellent drive that wont let you down. Let me start by...
This review is from: OCZ OCZSSD2-1SLD60G Solid Series SATA2 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive (Electronics)
If you follow the tweaks that are on the OCZ website, this drive is a welcome upgrade to ANY computer, PC or laptop. The price per gig ratio is still a little high, but that will come down as more people adopt this technology. In my desktop PC, I have noticed considerably faster bootup speeds, and most web pages load almost instantaneously. I wish the drive was bigger, but for now I just make sure to load only programs on it and save all my other data to a 1TB SATA drive. I will be ordering another of these soon for a RAID0 setup, but even now I get a 5.9 rating in the Windows Vista Experience. Again, though, follow all the tweaks on the OCZ site before passing judgement on this drive. Highly recommended.
Update 4/18/2009: DO NOT buy this drive if you are expecting OCZ to honor any advertised rebates. The web is littered with tales of people being denied rebates for any number of arbitrary reasons. I am no exception. The only people who ever seem to receive their rebates are those that push the issue with OCZ, and even then results are iffy. Again, the product itself is fine, just purchase it knowing that the initial price you pay will most likely be the final price as well, and if you are fortunate enough to get your rebate, all the better.
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This review is from: OCZ OCZSSD2-1SLD60G Solid Series SATA2 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive (Electronics)
Though these MLC SSD with a single controller have been burned for having issues with random writes thanks to the inadequate JMICRON controller, I got some very impressive speeds after some tweaking.
I installed into my Asus Eee 1000HE and used the ghost files from the restore DVD to restore Windows XP to its factory state. I did the majority of the tweaks that OCZ recommended, and now my system loads amazingly quickly. I havent had any major stuttering issues like some have, but then again, this is a netbook, Im not going to be doing heavy writing to disc like many enthusiasts might with their desktop PCs.
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This review is from: OCZ OCZSSD2-1SLD60G Solid Series SATA2 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive (Electronics)
I've been watching this technology for a while now and have been anxious to give SSDs a try. I feel the price/performance has finally reached a point where it made sense to give it a go...
I recently purchased a Lenovo W500 laptop and decided to downgrade from Vista Business back to XP Pro. The factory installed 5400 RPM hard drive was sluggish and noisy so I thought I would kill two birds... I installed this SSD with a fresh copy of XP Pro and the machine is EXTREMELY fast now and almost completely silent.
The manufacturer has an excellent support forum (www.ocztechnologyforum.com) that contains lots of useful info for setting these drives up and getting the most out of them. I followed the recommended formatting/optimizing procedures in the forum and have been VERY satisfied with this drive so far...
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I was a bit skeptical at first as to wether this would be a wise investment until I saw the improvement one of these had on my buddies macbook. It was unreal how fast it was so I bought one for my mac mini.
WOW - it was THE single best investment I ever made to breath new life into a computer. I've been impressed with memory upgrades but this was even more dramatic and impressive. Booting now only takes about 25 seconds. Loading any microsoft product is under 3. Virtual memory issues are a thing of the past. I'm sold on these and highly recommend them.
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I've been wanting to try an SSD drive for some time but the price has been too high. I bought this drive from Amazon at a very reasonable price and have not been disappointed. I installed it as my boot drive on my XP Pro PC (desktop). It boots quickly, seems a little faster overall compared to my former SATA conventional drive (7200 rpm). It generates no heat that I can tell and is totally silent. So far I am very impressed.
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I decided to replace my old 5400 rpm hd with a new flash disk (i already used one in my other notetook for an year). The read performance is 5 starts, the write performance is 4 stars. If you can afford it, get a SLC flash drive. If not, get this drive and that's it. Windows XP now starts faster, as well all other programs.
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I work with computers all day long and have several, but this is my first SSD drive. I bought it for an older Windows XP notebook computer. I can't complain at all for the price. There are better SSDs out there (Intel, Samsung) but not for this price.
This is my "story" for upgrading an older Seagate 7200.1 2.5" hard drive in a Windows XP notebook to a new OCZ Solid Series SSD.
For my main system, I have a Vista x64 system with two drive docks, an eSATA one and a USB one. I removed the old Seagate 7200.1 80GB HD from my Windows XP Dell E1505 notebook. Unfortunately I forgot the hard drive was password protected so I had to install it back into the notebook and remove the password before I could put it in the dock and my computer would see data on the drive. I wonder if the OCZ drive supports password protection? I may have to investigate that.
I put the OCZ 60GB Solid drive in my eSATA dock and followed the directions on the OCZ forum for using diskpar to create an aligned partition. NOTE: I use a program called "HotSwap!" to install/remove drives in my eSATA dock which I find very handy (makes it work more like USB drives). NOTE: Don't forget to make the new partition on the SSD the actve partition.
I then used robocopy (included in my Vista install) to copy the files to the OCZ drive (two commands because two partitions):
robocopy d: l: /MIR /COPY:DATSOU /R:2 /W:2
robocopy f: m: /MIR /COPY:DATSOU /R:2 /W:2
I had some errors trying to copy some "crypto" files (and some others). Security related?
To restore the MBR, I used "mbrfix64.exe" from http://www.sysint.no/Nedlasting/MbrFix.zip:
mbrfix64.exe /drive 8 fixmbr
I then put the drive back in the notebook and hoped it would boot up... and it did!
I then applied some of the tweaks mentioned on the OCZ forum. This included some registry tweaks and disabling the Indexing Service. I did not do the "tweak in beta test" and I did not disable my page file even though I have 2 GB of RAM in the computer. I also did not setup a RAM disk.
I had some problems with Outlook XP. It may have been how the files were copied with robocopy (I would have preferred to use Acronic True Image but was concerned about it preserving the partition alignment). Doing a "Detect and Repair" operation in outlook and then shutting down and restarting Outlook seems to have fixed it.
So far my impressions are very positive. The computer boots much faster and is very quiet. Programs load faster. I have not experienced any obvious stuttering.
UPDATE 2009-06-18: I'm reducing this to 2 stars now because this drive use to be "cheap" but the price has risen and better SSD prices have come down making it (at this time) a bad buy. I recommend a Vertex or other Indilinx based SSD. Intel is also tops but more expensive. A Samsung ontroller is another good choice.
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I use this as a system drive for windows 7 beta, i like it much better than the velosiraptor it replaced. Using a AMD 790gx/sb750 board i have had no problems. no pausing as some get with the cheaper ssd drives. copied a 4gb movie file 70-80 megabytes per second with sata and 30-40 with the usb interface. I also installed windows xp pro on the 30gb version and it runs great. its not the fastest ssd out there but it does the job and i like it more than the best mechanical hard-drives. I am so happy my computer is quiet, no hard drive clicking,vibrations,whining... I have waited over 10 years for a silent computer... finally
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I bought a Solid State drive from OCZ, with shipping and customs it came to [...]$ I read the package and it said "Faster access times, shock resistant, exceptional performance, excellent reliability, more efficient and more durable than convertional hard drives, top it off with an excellent MTBF and you have an excellent drive that wont let you down. Let me start by saying those are all lies plain and simple. My western digital 1TB My book has way faster access times. The OCZ SSD dropped in and out like no tommorw until you found it's sweet spot. Durable is not the best word to describe this drive, it's like holding a SSD wrapped in tin foil. The drive was no where near efficient, or reliable. My OCZ drive died a horrible worthless death after only one month of light non-continueous use...thats pathetic. It says it has a mean time before failure of 1,500000 hrs, try 1.5 months total in my case. Between my WD Mybooks, Acomadata drive, and old school maxtor drive they have a total life thus far of 13.5 years and counting, the drives still perform wonferfully. I can only strongly recommend that consumers wait a while before going with SSD and use what we know works. There is nothing wrong with a conventional HD, i've had some last me over 10 years, and I only stopped using it because I would buy a new computer or drive. This SSD only lasted a month and was a pain since the first day. The mission statement from OCZ says "you will have an excellent drive that wont let you down" clearly it was a big, lame, pathetic let down. Another interesting thing about OCZ that I found out the hard way was, WARNING: If you do the whole rebate thing with OCZ after you buy this peice of junk, you do so at your own risk, because after you get the rebate you in turn make any OCZ warrenty's void. That shows me that OCZ knows they make shotty products and have rebates in place to void the warrentys when the ssd sitting on your office desk in close to ideal conditions fails a month out of the box. Needless to say only for I had my files backed up on my WD my book I would have lost 12 years worth of work, music, pics etc. because of this cheap, tin foil housed piece of garbage. Plus it doesen't work on any Macbook or IMac as mac doesen't have RAID support. Im a PC user 100% and don't use mac's anymore just putting the info out there. I tried it on my sons mac and it didn't support raid anything. So all in all, OCZ are a web of lies and whatever you do if you truly want to burn you hard earned money of this tripe then DON'T cash in the rebate! If you do you'll end up at a loss with no OCZ to back up their shotty garbage drives. [...]
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