First, my story:
I bought 2 SSDs back in sept 2009, both of them 60gb OCZ vertex turbo's.
I first used them in raid0 since there was no such thing as trim support for them back then due to firmware being unavailable for it yet.
For about 9 months they worked great then I started getting some errors from one of the drives. I managed to fix them with a chkdsk and some other means.
I got the same issue happen to me 3 months after that, and after lots of hassle and messing around, it resolved itself. A month later I had the same problem but this time I had no solution for it and my SSDs were corrupted to the point where I couldnt even attempt to fix them in any way.
At that point I reformated using the OCZ d-flash and updated the firmware on both of them. Reinstalling them seperately this time to take advantage of TRIM, they worked for a month or 2. Till yesterday where they messed up again. This time I used a special d-flash given from OCZ Ryder and reformated them, installing windows from scratch.
Once again, issues arise the next day (today) where one of my SSDs stops showing up in the computer.
Here is a thread to the issue I had and when I reformated a couple months ago with a d-flash and updated firmware: http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?84259-Continuing-SSD-errors-corruption.
Now what Im thinking about:
It has been a huge hassle to deal with these SSDs since they started to give me problems. Im on the verge of either giving up on them (which I do not want to cause I put 500bucks into both of them back in sept09 ) and buying a harddrive and installing on that. OR, I might just buy a newer SSD, 120gb in size but don't know what to look at.
I don't want to deal with so many dumb hassles, with my 2nd SSD not showing or detecting, I cant install anymore programs since my main SSD has the OS and some important school programs on it leading it to have 10.5gb free on it. With SSDs, I was told you want to leave about 20% of its volume free for preformance so that is the 20% ish. I also noticed that if you get within 1gb free of these SSDs, they develop massive issues and crash if not stop working.
So Im sitting here now and the only place I can think of to go that can give me some wise advice would be these forums. What should I do? Go back to HDDs untill SSDs develop further and I can garantee myself some stable system uptime. Or attempt to stick with SSDs and buy a new one thats in the next generation up from what the vertex turbo was in(same gen as original vertex), so vertex 2 generation related SSDs.
What is the best thing to do for me?
I bought 2 SSDs back in sept 2009, both of them 60gb OCZ vertex turbo's.
I first used them in raid0 since there was no such thing as trim support for them back then due to firmware being unavailable for it yet.
For about 9 months they worked great then I started getting some errors from one of the drives. I managed to fix them with a chkdsk and some other means.
I got the same issue happen to me 3 months after that, and after lots of hassle and messing around, it resolved itself. A month later I had the same problem but this time I had no solution for it and my SSDs were corrupted to the point where I couldnt even attempt to fix them in any way.
At that point I reformated using the OCZ d-flash and updated the firmware on both of them. Reinstalling them seperately this time to take advantage of TRIM, they worked for a month or 2. Till yesterday where they messed up again. This time I used a special d-flash given from OCZ Ryder and reformated them, installing windows from scratch.
Once again, issues arise the next day (today) where one of my SSDs stops showing up in the computer.
Here is a thread to the issue I had and when I reformated a couple months ago with a d-flash and updated firmware: http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?84259-Continuing-SSD-errors-corruption.
Now what Im thinking about:
It has been a huge hassle to deal with these SSDs since they started to give me problems. Im on the verge of either giving up on them (which I do not want to cause I put 500bucks into both of them back in sept09 ) and buying a harddrive and installing on that. OR, I might just buy a newer SSD, 120gb in size but don't know what to look at.
I don't want to deal with so many dumb hassles, with my 2nd SSD not showing or detecting, I cant install anymore programs since my main SSD has the OS and some important school programs on it leading it to have 10.5gb free on it. With SSDs, I was told you want to leave about 20% of its volume free for preformance so that is the 20% ish. I also noticed that if you get within 1gb free of these SSDs, they develop massive issues and crash if not stop working.
So Im sitting here now and the only place I can think of to go that can give me some wise advice would be these forums. What should I do? Go back to HDDs untill SSDs develop further and I can garantee myself some stable system uptime. Or attempt to stick with SSDs and buy a new one thats in the next generation up from what the vertex turbo was in(same gen as original vertex), so vertex 2 generation related SSDs.
What is the best thing to do for me?