I had enough OCZ SSDs go on me that I just won't touch that brand anymore. They may have made improvements to their quality control, but once burned twice shy - I'll never waste time/money on them again
Buy Intel/Samsung if you want quality, performance, and more importantly peace of mind. The time you waste on fidgety or poor quality drives is worth more than the few quid difference
topss to Destard
15 Feb 165#2
Samsung is probably the better drive of the three. But currently around £17 more expensive than this OCZ.
The OCZ is (under normal use) comparable to the Sandisk of similar capacity.
If you're going from a mechanical HDD, I doubt you would be disappointed with any of the three. Going from an OCZ/Sandisk to a Samsung, I doubt most people would notice any significant speed benefits.
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Destard
15 Feb 16#1
how does this compare to it's Sandisk and Samsung rivals?
topss to Destard
15 Feb 165#2
Samsung is probably the better drive of the three. But currently around £17 more expensive than this OCZ.
The OCZ is (under normal use) comparable to the Sandisk of similar capacity.
If you're going from a mechanical HDD, I doubt you would be disappointed with any of the three. Going from an OCZ/Sandisk to a Samsung, I doubt most people would notice any significant speed benefits.
brad25577 to Destard
15 Feb 16#3
i've got a 240GB ARC 100 with OCZ for my OS on my gaming build and it works fine, the Trion seems to be a better model though
richchampness1
15 Feb 16#4
the new trion 150 have just come out
robodan918
15 Feb 165#5
I had enough OCZ SSDs go on me that I just won't touch that brand anymore. They may have made improvements to their quality control, but once burned twice shy - I'll never waste time/money on them again
Buy Intel/Samsung if you want quality, performance, and more importantly peace of mind. The time you waste on fidgety or poor quality drives is worth more than the few quid difference
Avalon-One
15 Feb 16#6
As above I purchased a few older OCZ's, I updated to the latest firmware (said to fix issues and prevent the sudden death others have had). They were wrong. I have a pile of dead OCZ SSD's in the corner, i'd suggest paying the extra personally for something that hasn't had as significant a failure rate recently.
matt101101 to Avalon-One
15 Feb 161#7
Outdated advice, OCZ drives are fine these days. OCZ were bought by Toshiba in early 2014, so these drives are essentially Toshiba drives with an OCZ logo on them.
topss
15 Feb 161#8
They seem to have much better reliability since Toshiba took them over. Saying that, and I know this is just anecdotal, I have an old OCZ (Vertex 2 I think)120GB SSD in a laptop and hasn't failed or had any problems - 5 years old now and used on a daily basis.
ollie87
15 Feb 16#9
I agree. I have an ARC 100 in my HTPC and it's a great bit of kit.
davycrocket
15 Feb 16#10
Careful if you use Macs/OSX there is a compatibility issue with older Nvidia chipsets - it wont work
As you say, they are much improved since Toshiba took the helm. God knows why Toshiba decided to keep the OCZ name and not just brand their SSDs as Toshibas. They obviously didn't do enough market research into just how tarnished the name OCZ had become with regard to SSDs. Either that or it was some stupid requirement of the buy-out that the OCZ name lived on.
Just look at all the confusion on here, it's been over two years since OCZ were bought out and their SSD line up replaced with Toshiba technology inside an OCZ branded case and still people spout about them being unreliable pieces of junk. No doubt there'd be none of it if these were the exact same drive but with "Toshiba" written on the front.
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Buy Intel/Samsung if you want quality, performance, and more importantly peace of mind. The time you waste on fidgety or poor quality drives is worth more than the few quid difference
The OCZ is (under normal use) comparable to the Sandisk of similar capacity.
If you're going from a mechanical HDD, I doubt you would be disappointed with any of the three. Going from an OCZ/Sandisk to a Samsung, I doubt most people would notice any significant speed benefits.
All comments (30)
The OCZ is (under normal use) comparable to the Sandisk of similar capacity.
If you're going from a mechanical HDD, I doubt you would be disappointed with any of the three. Going from an OCZ/Sandisk to a Samsung, I doubt most people would notice any significant speed benefits.
Buy Intel/Samsung if you want quality, performance, and more importantly peace of mind. The time you waste on fidgety or poor quality drives is worth more than the few quid difference
They seem to have much better reliability since Toshiba took them over. Saying that, and I know this is just anecdotal, I have an old OCZ (Vertex 2 I think)120GB SSD in a laptop and hasn't failed or had any problems - 5 years old now and used on a daily basis.
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Just look at all the confusion on here, it's been over two years since OCZ were bought out and their SSD line up replaced with Toshiba technology inside an OCZ branded case and still people spout about them being unreliable pieces of junk. No doubt there'd be none of it if these were the exact same drive but with "Toshiba" written on the front.