I find it quite entertaining. I've been following this BSOD bug for the last few months and they've blamed everything from Intel CMOS curruption, OEM sata cables, SATA timings, users not running WEI (lol), users not clearing CMOS, overclocks, not secure erasing before reinstalling OS, AHCI drivers. They've had 3 firmware fixes already which haven't fully solved the problem
As stated in this post, they blamed as good as everything already but i can tell loudly, the true issue is the drive itself and nothing different.
I am running a Vertex 3 MI 240 GB now as a secondary game drive, and so far no problem with. However, some time ago i had a 120 GB Vertex MI for OS drive and that caused BSODs, freezes and programs locking up (almost any program, there was no limitation on that). So my system wasnt responsible for, its the drive thats to blame, sorry to say. The firmware probably only helps in order to remove stress from the controller but the issue is most likely much deeper and it may need a new SF design.
It may work properly, but thats a dice, and not sure how long the drive will last because i am worried that the SF controller someday will burn down (happened to many people already). Although the Toshiba toggle nand will last for eternal, but that doesnt help when design is having failures Personally i do only recommend SF drives as a secondary game drive (may work good for very long time) but for OS i would take a M4 or Intel SSD, they can handle the continuous stress a OS is generating without making you worried. I mean, SF basically had the most innovative design from any controllers, but they kinda risked to much steps at once and that was causing unknown risk and users being labor rats.
Besides: Hotplugging has never been enabled on my system drive, and the OS would never allow to enable it, so i dont know why OCZ recommend to disable hotplug because that only helps on non OS drives, as far as my common sense goes. All in all the whole story is just to much of a mess. A user can expect just to stick in a drive inside theyr bay and then it works proper, thats the theory at least.
One thing i would like to clearly state: Flashing your SSDs is at the risk of the users at 100%, means, even if a manufacturer is releasing a new firmware, they will not give any warranty for and IT WILL BREAK WARRANTY, in theory, however, in real terms they may not be able to detect. Under optimal circumstances, users have a issue, manufacturer do recommend flashing it using theyr own tool, then the issue still here. Users RMA the drive, the manufacturer says that it got flashed and no warranty anymore, so issue solved, for the manufacturer at least.
