Deal of the Day. Available online or instore. Limited to 5/customer.
Looks like free shipping, but $1.40 handling charge if shipped.
Each is best price listed on Staticice.
Other products shown, but I have not checked out their bargainicity.
OCZ ARC100 SSD Deals at MSY 120GB $70 (normally 80) 240GB $114 (129) 480GB $225 (257)
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Perhaps this will put your mind at rest:
http://www.storagereview.com/ocz_releases_ssd_reliability_da…
Have you bought an OCZ since they were taken over by Toshiba?
Nope.
Still prefer Intel, Samsung or Micron (Crucial). They control fabrication/QA from the silicon to the shipping box and make the only enterprise-grade SSDs.
Everyone else is re-badging and Frankensteining.
If a manufacturer has to be bought out and restructured for them to start coming good, that doesn't speak too highly of their work ethics.
I tend to agree with Amar89. Give it some more time to be sure. They do appear to have turned a new leaf, I'd still rather wait and look at the data in 6-12 months, to be sure.
From my understanding they took the same engineers who worked on the earlier less-reliable drives. Chalk and cheese from the same team is interesting.
I'm too butt hurt to even touch OCZ, those Vertex 2 days…
I paid $264 for a 500gb Samsung 850 drive from the current shopping express deal.
I have 2 dead Vertex's, a 2nd gen one and a 3rd gen one.
OTOH My Intel 530 (1.5 years) and Crucial M4 (3 years) still going strong.
I bought a brand new OCZ ARC 100 off Gumtree in February for 40$ and its performing well, PC boots in seconds. I would recommend it.
Until it dies.
Well, it just has windows 7 installation on a main partition and dropbox sync folder on a small partition (120GB SSD). So not much to lose for 40$ should it bites the dust.
Edit: ARC 100 has a firmware update - http://ocz.com/consumer/download
have two OCZ SSDs for years now, one is a SATA II only, still going.
never had any issues (knock wood)yep me too, i have that arc 240g and it just works, i also have two older OCZ and they're fine too
I realise that OCZ is a shitty company, even though theyre owned by Toshiba but for me, thats 3/3 success
i also have two samsungs… 840s etc.
oh my god what piles of shit, firmware updates to fix o/s breaking issues and rma
2/2 fail
I am getting charged $10.91 delivery fee and $2.50 handling fee. May not be free shipping to WA.
They wanted to charge me for delivery so I checked the thing again
According to the flyer free shipping is only for back-orders if you order and pay at the store.
Seems like they are trying to discourage online orders.I think you are right - I misread the flyer in my haste to get the deal posted.
Nice price but I would go back to using mechanical 10MB Quantum Fireballs before I ever touch OCZ again. Have owned 4 different types of OCZ SSD (excluding warranty replacements) and all but 1 died within the first year, the last died just after a year. Ironically the replacements were different generations but still suffered from serious issues.
By the good grace of the shop (PCCG) from whom I bought them, I was able to eventually switch a them for couple for Samsung's - eternally grateful.
Hearing that Toshiba bought out OCZ just makes me believe they got ripped off and not that the product quality has changed.
Yes, I believe people are still talking about their bad experiences with Hyundai cars, and how they would never buy one again.
Don't forget Great Wall cars, though I think the price difference between SSD's & cars means this analogy isn't quite apt for the situation ;)
But you're correct, thanks to the companies shocking name most computer enthusiast wouldn't touch OCZ gear much as most car enthusiast wouldn't touch a Hyundai or Great Wall.3 years ago they moved away from memory leaving many people (like myself) in purgatory when requiring support. It was almost 2 years ago (April 13) when the failing company received a stock "Delist Notice" from NASDAQ - that's really bad news. They finally filed for bankruptcy at the end of 2013, which is where Toshiba picked them up for a measly US$35 million.
So what happened to us OCZ fans? Well we received notice that our warranty issues would still be "taken care of", certainly didn't work out that way for me. OCZ had their brand badly tarnished from poor quality products and reliability issues, takes time for a name to shine through that type of crud.
I've owned OCZ, hit and miss in terms of reliability. Mostly miss. Owned being past tense, they all died on me.
Better to spend a few dollars more on Samsung or Intel and save yourself some grief.