Holy crap

Newegg.com - OCZ Petrol PTL1-25SAT3-256G 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

$169.99

 

pretty cheap but ive seen crucial m4 256GB ssd's go for 179.99 and it's a top tier ssd.

 

^ What he said. I bought my 128GB Crucial for $110 but the same guy was selling the 256GB for something around $180. I have read that the Crucial M4 is significantly better than the OCZ (or most others). Do you want to purchase a SSD? It was on eBay. I think the sale ran out tomorrow.

 

Crucial has nothing on ocz. The vertex 4 can't be touched atm and this drive differs because it has an everest controller, not sand force.

 

Sadly, it's a bad deal for me because Newegg charges tax in CA

 

You are also buying an OCZ product, which if you just read the statistics on the number of bricked/dead drives in a short time period, will convince people not to buy it. The M4 has had it's issues ironed out, as Crucial actually tries to fix issues unlike a certain company.

 

Crucial doesn't use Sandforce either. And while OCZ makes some excellent drives, OCZ Vertex4 > Crucial M4 > OCZ Petrol. The Crucial M4 is an excellent buy over the Petrol (which is meant to be an econo-SSD. ). The Crual M4 is last-year's tech, but it's still designed to be a performance SSD.

 

Lol ocz isn't perfect but after the vertex 4 was released, it was found that a lot of systems weren't compatible. Within a month they have come out with a new firmware that fixes most of the problems. I bought two 256gb vertex 4's. I made a stink on their forums and got one rma'd for a 480gb vertex 3, roughly $300 more expensive than the vertex 4 I returned. I'd say their customer service is stellar.

I know?

 

There are reports of posts being deleted by customers on OCZ support forums by forum moderators. Also OCZ got caught red handed selling 25nm NAND SSD as 34 nm pocketing the profits. That alone will judge their dwindling integrity.

 

In the vertex 4 section the first 10 posts at any given time are bashing ocz, their customer service etc. I haven't heard any "reports" of censoring... and there is plenty to censor trust me. If someone posts in the wrong section and the post is moved I wouldn't call that censoring. I'm all about the vertex 4 right now, even though they weren't compatible with my new dv6 at the time. But for me, for gaming it is the best way to go because of how it handles incompressible data. Which is most games... things people actually use computers for.

One thing I can say about their support is anyone on the website is a tool bag.. So condescending but willing to help and it worked out pretty well for me like I said.

MOD NOTE: No personal advertising outside the marketplace, please.

 

Well your the first I've seen say OCZ support is good... that being said they do make some decent SSD's... I have an Aglility 2 90GB in my 2010MBP and can't complain one bit... works amazingly.

I seen it over and over again, OCZ will delete posts... and it's also true that they got caught over the 25nm thing, which is disgraceful at best...

I would personally pay 10$ to get the M4. but not 50$.

 

about that 25mm thing...they were advertising their drives had 34nm NAND, but they actually came with 25nm NAND?

 

They just made no distinction between the two at launch. Not a huge deal and they offer replacements. Doesn't exactly warrant pitchfork & torch wielding villagers, but still a good point to nit pick if someone feels the need to nit pick.

@Ferarri $250

Thanks his name his jake, he is the sweetest dog on earth. He's alot bigger now though lol.

 

After FOUR DEAD OCZ drives and a crucial drive that worked flawlessly I know what brand I am sticking to.

Also beyond a point you wont notice the difference anyway.

 

That's some bad luck you have there. I have never gotten a bad ssd and I have had quite a few. All but one have been ocz, the one being patriot.

 

They were advertising 115 GB drives as 120 GB drives and 57 GB drives as 60 GB drives. The raw NAND capacity on both was the same but 25nm NAND requires more spare area due to the lower number of P/E cycles, hence the difference.

Of course, there was also the issue of the initial batches of 25nm drives being only 50-60% as fast as their 34nm cousins.

It's not like they set up a replacement program willingly - they only offered replacements after angry users complained loudly and publicly for about a month, by which time all of the major tech media had picked up on it and began pressuring OCZ on behalf of their readers.

Their initial responses were along the lines of "there's nothing wrong with selling a 115 GB drive as a 120 GB drive" and they tried to play all sorts of games with their customers like blaming the retailers for false advertising when in fact the box itself said 120 GB, so I'd say that it does warrant pitchfork & torch wielding villagers.

There's good reasons why people think OCZ is a shady company, even without Sandforce.