http://windowssecrets.com/forums/showthread.php/141651-High-failure-rate-of-OCZ-SSDs-yields-answers-that-raise-troubling-questions Lol excuse the links url but shows a little info. Hope This helps a bit Pete On 14 May 2013 19:33, "Peter Salisbury" <peterthevi...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Thanks for the warning: what are the symptoms of failure do you know? > ATB, Peter > > > On 14 May 2013 16:57, Martin N <marti...@bluebottle.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> >> At 22:14 13/05/2013, you wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> Just to resurrect this thread and let you know what happened. >>> >>> I tried rsyncing the contents of my system partition to a new >>> partition on the same disk and surprisingly that gave a significant >>> speed-up, around 10-20% at a guess. This is with ext4 fs. Not sure why >>> that would be, but perhaps different placement on the platter meant >>> less head movement, or defragmentation if that affects ext4? >>> >>> THEN I splashed out £40 at eBuyer for a 60GB OCZ SSD. I put the old >>> system disk into an external caddy on USB with all my data, so the SSD >>> is just for the system. Wow! Start-up times for the computer and for >>> applications are fantastic (about 45 seconds from power on to using >>> firefox, of which the first 10s or so are for POST and grub, compared >>> with over 2 minutes total before). The CPU is now maxed out (all four >>> cores) and the disk activity indicator hardly flickers. >>> >> >> >> OCZ SSDs are notorious for failing early. >> I would keep monitoring it at regular intervals. >> >> Martin N >> >> Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary >> Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. >> Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) >> >> -- >> Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk >> Web Interface: >> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/**mailman/listinfo/hampshire<https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire> >> LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk >> ------------------------------**------------------------------**-- >> > > > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------- >
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