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Review on ๐Ÿ’พ 120 GB OCZ Vertex 2 SATA II 2.5" SSD (OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G) by Sourn Debremarkos

Revainrating 2 out of 5

WARNING DO NOT BUY VERTEX 2

My SSD has been running for a year and a half. You shouldn't automatically be excited about the first sentence because it means my SSD is dead. There is a known bug in the Sandforce 2 technology used in this drive that causes it to become "bricked". Literally becomes unrecognizable in your BIOS or Windows. This happens when your computer goes to sleep and wakes up. My computer had sleep and hibernate disabled for most of that year and a half until I reverted to default settings when I reinstalled Win7. So just a minor bug means my drive is now a doorstop. Luckily I kept the receipt and box; 3 year guarantee, that's nice. The downside is I am currently waiting to get my RMA number to send the faulty one back so I can get another disc with all the same known bugs! I think I should be lucky because I got another replacement. UPDATE: When I was fixing the drive I asked for a 60GB Vertex 3 Agility instead if they could. Well, to my surprise, they did! After that I apparently disabled sleep/hibernation - the new Vertex 3 Agility worked GREAT by the way. So +1 to OCZ customer service for updating my RMA. It was amazing of them.

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