OCZ SSD prices at an all-time low

#4939541

Anarion

2014-10-17 11:08

Not sure if it's a good deal when we're talking about OCZ in the SSD departement.

Toshiba owns it now and to be honest it looks like things improved, a lot.

#4939552

fantaskarsef

2014-10-17 11:56

Had the OCZ Vertex 2 XT, it ran about 27 months, then died. Now I own two 120GB 840Evos as well as a Cruicial M4 256GB. As long as they run, you can't complain about anything tbh. Still running all those at Sata 3GB/s, so there's hardly any real difference 😀

#4939817

mohiuddin

2014-10-17 19:50

Wow , really cheap at only 110$ (newegg)

#4939818

ScoobyDooby

2014-10-17 19:53

While it does make them more attractive, Samsung's reliability and innovation is worth the price premium for myself.

I just ordered an EVO 250gb to replace my Mushkin Chronos 120 since games are all 20gb plus it seems these days and I keep running out of space. Managed to price match it and got it for $140CND! Pretty happy with that 😉

#4939895

Fierce Guppy

2014-10-17 21:33

This is a trifle off-topic, but Crucial are offering 1Tb SSD's at a price which tempts even a tight-fist like myself. Anyone have experience of Crucial's SSD's at this sort of size?

I was tossing up between a couple of 1TB Samsung EVO 840s and 1TB Crucial M550s. The Samsung drive has better random read performance but the Crucial drive does better at random writes. The Samsung still wins out because it is 12% less in my country. $632.60(NZD) vs $718.66(NZD).

#4940468

icedman

2014-10-18 20:46

only ssd's i have are ocz vertex 3 and 4 and theyre amazing wouldnt even bother risking to try another after owning these.

#4940470

stereoman

2014-10-18 20:48

While it does make them more attractive, Samsung's reliability and innovation is worth the price premium for myself.

My thoughts exactly, I had ssd's from Samsung, Crucial and OCZ the only drives that didn't fail where the Samsungs, the OCZ failed within 3 months and the Crucial M4 lasted about a year before it developed issues, maybe it's just bad luck but I won't buy anything but Samsung from now on.

#4940576

Fierce Guppy

2014-10-18 23:19

Perfectly happy with my 256GB 840PRO. My next SSD will definitely be PCIe based, though.

I'd much rather stripe 512GB 840 Pros than pay a ludicrous amount for a PCIe SSD with much smaller capacity.

#4940754

vidra

2014-10-19 12:14

Had my OCZ Vertex 4 for a couple of years now and it has worked jim dandy fine so far.

#4940792

Corrupt^

2014-10-19 13:42

As far as the SSD's are going, I'd park my money at Samsung/Crucial for the time being if I were to buy another one. Currently a happy camper with my 512GB 840 Pro though.

#4941149

bigfutus

2014-10-20 08:42

I use still my prehistoric Adata S592 64GB, because i am lazy to move system to my new Samsung 840 Pro 256GB. With 20872 power on hours, he's legitimate a veteran 😀

#4941290

0blivious

2014-10-20 14:13

I've bought 3 of the Kingston SSDs (for 3 different rigs). Two 120GB and One 240 (GB). So far, nary an issue on any of them and the speed is quite nice. I'm about to buy another 120gb for my daughter's Xmas build. Any reason I should avoid Kingston (as I see many folks leery of OCZ drives) or just carry on with what's been working?

#4941317

blkspade

2014-10-20 14:59

I have 512GB OCZ Vertex 4 that'll be reaching the 2yo mark in like 2 days. Its only flaw is not being 1TB.

#4941330

fantaskarsef

2014-10-20 15:18

I have 512GB OCZ Vertex 4 that'll be reaching the 2yo mark in like 2 days. Its only flaw is not being 1TB.

If I'd be evil I'd take bets on how long it will live after that 😀 But well, I suppose your's will probably last longer, quite longer. I'm not sure if I'd go for OCZ though, as there are other performance, or price/performance winners for me.

#4941349

CPC_RedDawn

2014-10-20 15:55

Just gonna leave this here 😉 http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-037-CR

Crucial MX100 512GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter CT512MX100SSD1) Sequential Read2 550 MB/s Sequential Write2 500 MB/s 4KB Random Read2 90,000 IOPS 4KB Random Write2 85,000 IOPS Type 2.5 Inch Height 7mm (with 9.5mm adapater) Memory Type Micron 16nm MLC NAND Controller Marvell® 88SS9189 with Micron® Custom Firmware Interface SATA 6Gbps (SATA III) MTTF 1.5 million hours Warranty 3 Years Endurance 72TB Total Bytes Written (TBW), equal to 40GB per day for 5 years Operating Temperature 0°C to 70°C Hardware Encryption AES-256 encryption engine, TCG Opal 2.0 compliant, IEEE-1667 complaint, Microsoft® eDrive® compatible Advanced Features Native Write Acceleration, Redundant Array of Independent NAND, Multistep Data Integrity Algorithm, Adaptive Thermal Protection, Power Loss Protection, Data Path Protection, Active Garbage Collection, TRIM Support, Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology (SMART), Error Correction Code (ECC) Compliance CE, FCC, BSMI, C-Tick, VCCI, Kcc, RoHS, China RoHS, WEEE, TUV, UL, SATA-IO

Still CAN'T be beaten on the price for 512GB SSD with over 500MB/s read and write and has such a good life span.