OCZ/Toshiba new SSDs

[barnsley]

The first product to come crawling out of the ashes from OCZ is their new vertex 460s. These ssds come with toshiba's NAND flash memory. They come with a 3 year warranty and they are rated at 20GB/day.

Pricing is reasonable as well, The 120GB version will cost $99.99 (£60 approx), the 240GB version will cost $189.99 (£115) and the 480GB one will be priced at around $359.99 (£218).

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now, many people here at OC3D have had awful experience with the previous OCZ. I, for example, have had all of the OCZ ssds I've used die on me within a few months. Could this 'new' OCZ be a rival to Samsung's SSDs or are they still up there with Thermaltacky on the hate list of this forum.

 

[SuB]

20gb a day? I can download that in an evening if i try even remotely

 

[Wraith]

Lets face it Toshiba are at the forefront of Nand Flash technology and are very specific as to who gets to use there controllers and chips in hardware so we might just be seeing the beginning to the new OCZ that won't let us down. I doubt they would use their own chips knowing that it could tarnish there already near perfect reputation. Anyway if the graph is anything to go by exciting times ahead in the SSD field.

 

[SieB]

£218 for a 480GB SSD I paid £186 for my 256GB 840 Pro a year ago.

I've never had a OCZ SSD, but i've seen a quite a few people over the years on here having them fail on them. Seen as OCZ are no longer the OCZ we once knew, i'll give them the benefit of the doubt and wait on reading user experiences before passing judgement.

 

[barnsley]

£218 for a 480GB SSD I paid £186 for my 256GB 840 Pro a year ago.

I've never had a OCZ SSD, but i've seen a quite a few people over the years on here having them fail on them. Seen as OCZ are no longer the OCZ we once knew, i'll give them the benefit of the doubt and wait on reading user experiences before passing judgement.

Toshiba ssds are bullet proof, easily the most reliable out there imo (Apple use them in macbooks as well I think) so it could be the start of something great

-edit- I might pick one up as a game ssd, I'll keep you lot updated on how it behaves.

 

[Snortan]

Rated for GB/day :lol:. So what happens if you exceed it?

 

[maniac]

Rated for GB/day :lol:. So what happens if you exceed it?

Nothing special, instead of lasting you 15 years, it will last 7 years. By time we will have something like sata 5 or 6 and you would have forgotten you ever bought a sata 3 ssd

 

[barnsley]

Nothing special, instead of lasting you 15 years, it will last 7 years. By time we will have something like sata 5 or 6 and you would have forgotten you ever bought a sata 3 ssd

If its anything like the old OCZ, change years to minutes

 

[Tripp]

well i have a 60gb ocz agility 3 an it hasn't missed a step, so i think i will upgrade to one of these if it fails anytime soon

 

[WillSK]

I'm willing to give OCZ the benefit of the doubt considering their new Toshiba overlords but the proof will have to be in the pudding and until then i'll stick with Corsair, Samsung etc. I'm all for great competition though so i'll keep my fingers crossed for them

 

[barnsley]

I'm interested in this as well I might add as I've given up with corsairs ssds and that only really means I have 3 choices of ssd companies :s.

 

[Dicehunter]

Toshiba invented flash technology in 1987, They are the founders of the technology so they have had a lot of time to get things right.

 

[Remmy]

I'm interested in this as well I might add as I've given up with corsairs ssds and that only really means I have 3 choices of ssd companies :s.

Have you had bad experiences or something Barnsley?

 

[barnsley]

Have you had bad experiences or something Barnsley?

Ok, well at my work all of our staff PCs are running either Corsair Force SSDs (~30%) or Kingston SSDs (~60%)(the basic ones). I might add these are all Shuttle Pcs running i3 540s,i3225s and the occasional low end i5 3330. All the ones with hard drive issues have been corsair ones. I have a pile of around 5 that have died on my desk at the mo' (just from post Christmas time) and I've replaced/repaired many more. Not a single Kingston one has died (excluding Tea damage). The PCs with corsair SSDs are about a year and a half old. They also are basically office PCs, so not exactly a taxing life...

I should probably add the 10% are random ssds that were replaced by the other guys , usually either OCZ ones (not a failure yet oddly) or samsungs.

 

[Remmy]

Ok, well at my work all of our staff PCs are running either Corsair Force SSDs (~30%) or Kingston SSDs (~60%)(the basic ones). I might add these are all Shuttle Pcs running i3 540s,i3225s and the occasional low end i5 3330. All the ones with hard drive issues have been corsair ones. I have a pile of around 5 that have died on my desk at the mo' (just from post Christmas time) and I've replaced/repaired many more. Not a single Kingston one has died (excluding Tea damage). The PCs with corsair SSDs are about a year and a half old. They also are basically office PCs, so not exactly a taxing life...

I should probably add the 10% are random ssds that were replaced by the other guys , usually either OCZ ones (not a failure yet oddly) or samsungs.

That's so cool that all the office computers have SSDs That's a shame really, I'd always thought of Corsair's SSDs as being among the most reliable.

 

[QuietOne]

My Corsair SSD has been fine so far. 2 years old in March, I am debating whether to ditch it and get a bigger one or continue using it for an OS drive and getting a bigger one anyway.

 

[barnsley]

That's so cool that all the office computers have SSDs That's a shame really, I'd always thought of Corsair's SSDs as being among the most reliable.

So did I...

Our systems have ssds as we don't use local hard drives for storage/saving.