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I've been after a small cheap SSD for a while and $81.99 shipped for a 60GB OCZ Vertex Plus+ SSD seems pretty good.
Can be found cheaper on staticice.com.au, but if you're not in a position to pickup from the cheaper competitors this may be worth it.
Read up on mwave return policies and reviews before you purchase, other items incur normal shipping rates.
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Anyone have this?
I think i heard that the OCZ has a super high failure rate?
Any experts around? =)
I'm not an expert but all I have to offer is a single experience.
I bought the Agility 3 120Gb SSD from Centre Com a few weeks ago. I totally regret not buying it earlier. My laptop now boots up in 16 seconds. I installed Windows 7 in 15 minutes. I haven't had no issues what so ever. I haven't had a single BSOD yet.
But in my opinion do not buy this one as it is very slow for an SSD. Spend $25 more and get the Agility 3 60Gb SSD.
cheers.. will do.
another non-expert opinion: got one 2 months ago, and love it.
sure, it is not as fast as sata3 based ones but honestly if you are coming from a normal hdd it won't make much of a difference.
upgraded to whatever latest firmware was at the time I got it, and haven't had a single problem since.
highly recommended.
I just bought a computer which came with a Vertex Plus.
It came with firmware version 3.02 preinstalled, which is terrible and started corrupting my files (luckily there wasnt anything important on there yet).
Anyway, wiped it, got it updated to 3.55 and alls good now.
Wtf… Mwave is TI computers and they're selling me a 320gb hard drive?
Mwave is selling it but why the link to "ticomputers"?
Not sure why OP posted the wrong link — might have copy pasted from the wrong tab. Link has now been fixed.
thanks for correcting the link, just noticed I pointed to an external 320 verbatim, also not too bad a deal..
I have this model installed a couple days ago. I haven't had any issues so far but be sure to update the firmware before using it. Also i haven't really noticed much difference in speed
If you have a SATA III PC then your better off with http://www.pcdiy.com.au/catalog/partdetail.aspx?PartNo=OCZ03…
I brought the 120gb from Centrecom start of this month. Going strong in my laptop. I used Acronis 2011 home edition boot disc to clone my hdd drive and restored it to my new SSD. Get acronis if you cant be bothered installing fresh copy of Win 7.
Its not as fast as fresh copy of windows (i did a quick test of installing a fresh copy).
Not a bad SSD. Cheap transition to solid state storage if you're skeptical. Got this in my laptop, but got this for a cheaper a couple months back (oddly enough) for $75 at Centrecom. Good for boot ups on my laptop. =)
Terrible SSD IMO. They're not that much faster than your typical hard drive, though you will see the higher read speeds that make things snappier. Fork out a little more ($100) and you wont regret it.
if this is the price for the agility, im getting one.
patience is a virtue..=)
not a bad ssd i have this model roughly a year, significant increase loading speed for gaming,and other. havent have any issue what so ever. And i have read the newer model is problematic but it can be fix with a bios upgrade, anyhow OCZ cover 3 year warranty so i think is ok, just not put any important data in it, btw i only put my system on the 60gb SSD. From my experience the system drive always dead before other….
Would probably spend $20 or $30 extra and get the Agility if I has the choice - There has been a few sales for these as well - http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/61082.
There has been some reported BSOD issues (which I did have on my vertex 3) but upgrading the firmware seems to fix the issues in most cases.
these ultrafast ssd drives sound like a great idea until you read moreabout the nature of ssd (wearing out electrons or something) and hear the advice that any critical or data files should always be on normal magnetic drives.
I think I'll use normal hard drives for a few more years and let other people test out and decide if bad ssd firmware, data corruption, fragmentation issues and unpredictable failure times are worth the 'boot speed' increase. :/
I don't store any critical info on these - it is primarily just for my OS and any essential apps that I use.
Honestly though getting a SSD is one of the best upgrades you can make to your computer.
You have very little or close to no chance to recover any data if one of these SSD goes bad! Above comment is very relevant. Do not store data that you may need to be recovered if something goes wrong.
Depending what happens to a mechanical drive that could hold true also but. That or your house may burn down, a tornado could rob you of your PC, a flood could wash it away or Godzilla may stomp on your desktop. Realistically regardless of drive you need backups and if the data is important, those backups should be off site.
Most work pretty well really now days. I'd argue you aren't really better off sticking to optical drives so much as you are ensuring the data is in two places at any one time. Be that on both a SSD and a mechanical drive so be it. Mechanical drives come with their own bag off issues, the least of all being mechanical failure rates which I imagine you are more likely to hit than an SSD issues assuming you get one that hasn't had reports of known bad firmware.
Fragmentation is probably more an issue for mechanical drive too given they have more to gain from having data stored in one continuous block. They excel at sequential reads where SSDs are good at Random Access Reads and thus have far less of an issue when data is about the place than a mechanical drive.
But yeah, important data should always be on two drives, even if one of those drives is an online one hosted elsewhere. Personally I like the combination of OS and Applications on an SSD and then a mechanical drive for backup with its own backup solution.
Guys, just let you know I got a cool Kingston SSD Deal tomorrow for 1 hour for only $89.99 + $7 Delivery or Pick Up.
I can't post on OzBargain at the moment because I am only limit to posting 1 or 2 deals per week.
If you want to know more info about the deal just go this link: http://www.mwave.com.au/promo_rushhour.asp
Mwave: give us ozbargain users a whole day and free shipping, that would be something worth telling friends about.
Have you checked what ur link points to?