OCZ has new SSD firmware coming

[PeterStoba]

OCZ have realised that the performance of SSDs are effected over time, and are releasing a firmware to improve the speeds and lifetime of the drives. Is it too late?

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[SwaleSmith]

can you upgrade firmware without loseing your data?

 

[mayhem]

Any thing that expands the life of these drives are worth it esp since the outlay for such drive is quite expensive.

Good on them for sticking at it. just proves good customer support ....

 

[PeterStoba]

can you upgrade firmware without loseing your data?

As far as I know, yes. Although I would back up before hand just in case.

 

[Pyr0]

tony has posted a beta version of 1.40 for vertex users on the ocz forums:

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=60700

 

[Rastalovich]

What's the deal about defrag'ing damaging SSDs ?

 

[Pyr0]

They weren't designed for SSDs and they add tons of unneeded reads and writes

SSDs don't need defragging cos they can access any part of the drive at the same speed

This is why Windows7 disables defrag on a drive if it detects it as an SSD

 

[Pyr0]

1.40 firmware is dead, long live 1.41 (with TRIM and Garbage Collection)

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=60758

 

[SwaleSmith]

Not for the OCZ Summit though???

Not that I can say I have any gripes....

 

[Pyr0]

Hi SwaleSmith

The last I heard, samsung sent a beta flasher to OCZ, but asked for it not to be released to the public and said they were working on a public release.

But Tony has said that if UK peeps really want the latest 18C Summit firmware asap, you can contact him to send it for flashing or Ryder for US customers.

 

[SwaleSmith]

Will wait until public release just incase have no promblems so wont mess if th enew revision comes out and boosts performance then of course I will give it a go...free upgrade LOL

 

[Pyr0]

it's not so much for performance increases but to stop the performance decreasing over time

 

[Rastalovich]

They weren't designed for SSDs and they add tons of unneeded reads and writes

SSDs don't need defragging cos they can access any part of the drive at the same speed

This is why Windows7 disables defrag on a drive if it detects it as an SSD

What I don't understand about this is that we're inherently talking about memory chips.

Within our wildest imagination, the DDR2/3/5 already in computers gets accessed infinitely (not really ofc, but practically speaking) more times than memory chips emulating a harddrive ever could.

So where's the beef ?

I do understand however that there is practically no need for a defrag - the time savings are measured in micro seconds, but the lifespan theory I'm finding hard to digest.

 

[SwaleSmith]

What I don't understand about this is that we're inherently talking about memory chips.

Within our wildest imagination, the DDR2/3/5 already in computers gets accessed infinitely (not really ofc, but practically speaking) more times than memory chips emulating a harddrive ever could.

So where's the beef ?

I do understand however that there is practically no need for a defrag - the time savings are measured in micro seconds, but the lifespan theory I'm finding hard to digest.

Very good point something I have never thought off, but isn't it something like 100,000,000hrs before failure or something.

The way I see it is before my SSD goes pop there will be a way way better (needed alternatives) e.g extra capacity faster read/writes etc so am not worried.