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    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Xellon, Jan 10, 2012.

  1. Xellon

    Xellon Shinobi of the wind

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    Its been months since I last posted here or even bother about looking up the latest laptops from asus (noticed intel's new 17-2670).

    While I was configuring the ASUS G74SX-DH71, I found 3 drives that I may be interested in:

    1 - vertext 2
    2 - vertex 3
    3 - OCZ Vertex 3 MAX IOPS

    Well, I'm assuming the vertex 3 is faster so I would be interested in that. Whats the difference between choice 2 and 3?

    Whats the IOPS about?
     
    Xellon, Jan 10, 2012
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  2. JOSEA

    JOSEA NONE

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    JOSEA, Jan 10, 2012
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  3. Abidderman

    Abidderman Notebook Deity

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    Check out some of the threads, OCZ has a bad rep for their SF based ssds. IIRC the Ver 2 was good, the Vet3 are not getting a lot of love.
     
    Abidderman, Jan 10, 2012
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  4. adrianu

    adrianu Notebook Geek

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    Loads of people complaining about OCZ lately, I am pretty sure I will never buy any OCZ SSD. :)
     
    adrianu, Jan 13, 2012
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  5. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Any OCZ is pretty much guaranteed to have reliability, stability, or firmware problems. After a few major problems with their drives I'm done with the brand.
     
    Greg, Jan 13, 2012
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  6. tijo

    tijo Sacred Blame

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    Any word on the octane regarding this yet.

    In any Xellon, if you can wait up to next week, we'll know if Crucial will fix their 5000 hours bug and the M4 will become a viable alternative again.
     
    tijo, Jan 13, 2012
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