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Upgrade to SSD = Fail
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<blockquote data-quote="armchair" data-source="post: 1378256" data-attributes="member: 240466"><p><strong>SSD = Fail</strong></p><p></p><p>the first ssd i installed i went through the palava of using diskpart to align the partition on 1mb boundary as the os couldnt do it ( xp ). i then installed xp on it, then setup my applications and did a database build - after 47 hrs the drive was stuttering so badly it was useless, and a reformat didnt improve matters. nb. i always turn defrag off as in my experience it doesnt really improve drive performance that much - time is better spent reformatting and reinstalling operating system.</p><p></p><p>returned to ocz who sent me the next model up, and installed xp on it although didnt bother with the partition realignment as i came to the conclusion it didnt improve things. used it faultlessly for compiling the odd application here and there and a couple small database builds ( no stuttering ) for 11 months until i turned on the machine and the bios no longer detects the drive.</p><p></p><p>third ssd is a ocz vertex ( sep 2011 ) with xp and photoshop installed, again no attempt to change partition alignment for the same reason as before. 3 months later my friend phones up saying his computer no longer boots - again the bios no longer detects the drive. its rma'd replacement is sitting in its box waiting for me to install it - but i told him i'll only install it if he uses it for nothing other than his photoshop scratch disk.</p><p></p><p>somehow i dont think ill be buying anything else with the word 'ocz' written on it, and im kind of thinking that the marriage of flash memory and disk based operating system is just a bad dream. but i will try a different brand and a TRIM os and see if one day i am able to tell customers that ssd is a viable option.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="armchair, post: 1378256, member: 240466"] [b]SSD = Fail[/b] the first ssd i installed i went through the palava of using diskpart to align the partition on 1mb boundary as the os couldnt do it ( xp ). i then installed xp on it, then setup my applications and did a database build - after 47 hrs the drive was stuttering so badly it was useless, and a reformat didnt improve matters. nb. i always turn defrag off as in my experience it doesnt really improve drive performance that much - time is better spent reformatting and reinstalling operating system. returned to ocz who sent me the next model up, and installed xp on it although didnt bother with the partition realignment as i came to the conclusion it didnt improve things. used it faultlessly for compiling the odd application here and there and a couple small database builds ( no stuttering ) for 11 months until i turned on the machine and the bios no longer detects the drive. third ssd is a ocz vertex ( sep 2011 ) with xp and photoshop installed, again no attempt to change partition alignment for the same reason as before. 3 months later my friend phones up saying his computer no longer boots - again the bios no longer detects the drive. its rma'd replacement is sitting in its box waiting for me to install it - but i told him i'll only install it if he uses it for nothing other than his photoshop scratch disk. somehow i dont think ill be buying anything else with the word 'ocz' written on it, and im kind of thinking that the marriage of flash memory and disk based operating system is just a bad dream. but i will try a different brand and a TRIM os and see if one day i am able to tell customers that ssd is a viable option. [/QUOTE]
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