Cheap (and potentially nasty) SSD has dropped its price again since last time at MSY, back to similar price to this PLE deal a month ago.
As of performance
Pros
- Affordable
- Decent performance during everyday operations
Cons
- Performance drops to hard drive levels during even modestly large data transfers
- Only three-year warranty
I did hear that their process have improved over the last 2 years. However too many people have been burnt by their earlier products and many would automatically associate OCZ = dodgy SSD. Performance wise it's also lacking though.
I am not sure if that link applies for advance warranty in Australia. I tried to read full detail and could not find a mention that advance warranty will be provided to Australian OCZ customers.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
@saty1296: "OCZ ShieldPlus is available in USA, Canada, European Union, Russia and these countries: " and the drop down box lists Australia.
I had an old 64GB OCZ Petrol drive that lasted a solid 3 and a half years, not sure if that's decent but it was cheap!
Yep so tempted to get the 480GB but with three from three dead OCZ's, I wouldn't piss them if they were on fire. So far no issues with Samsung or Intel. One was DOA that was caught up the OCZ ownership change so I basically took that hit as no warranty WTF!
The very popular (in their day) Vertex 2 & 3 were pretty unreliable, had a 120GB V2 die after 1yr, but also have a 60GB V2 still working although it runs pretty hot and needs good ventilation.
For whatever reason the 960GB drive hits some good numbers in the "real world" testing at Storage Review - much better than the 480G. The result seems anomalous to me but putting it out there for anyone interested in the 960GB version of the Trion 100.
http://www.storagereview.com/ocz_trion_100_series_ssd_review
I belive ocz offers great warrenty atm though. I think I read if you register it they will ship the replacement before you send back broken one.
Hmm I couldnt find the article to link, so take with a grain of salt.