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OCZ SSD Test Panel Up and Running - following 10 people for two years
A few weeks ago we asked a handful of Guru3D readers if they would like to participate in an SSD group test, that lasts two years. The past week not five but a selection of enchanted ten Guru3D readers have received a OCZ Storage Solutions Vertex 460A SATA3 480GB SSD.
In the upcoming two years we'll be monitoring and thus closely following these guys. Each month each participant will post their status on the SSD in our forums alongside with an overview of SMART info, TB written, lifespan expectancy and of course performance. This is an open project meaning everything gets reported transparently each month in the forum thread with a screen-shot or two. The good but also the bad will be reported. User feedback based on real-world user experiences, and not forced synthetic stress-tests that destroy an SSD in weeks.
It is going to an interesting two years to see how this hardware will keep up and to see how good SSD technology anno 2015 really is. We'll post regular news updates on how things are going.
If you like to follow the test-panel you can do so in this forum thread.
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#5065991 Posted on: 05/08/2015 04:02 PM
I never had any issues with my Vertex 3 and Agility 2, which I ended up selling after a couple of years. I would recommend them to anyone.
I never had any issues with my Vertex 3 and Agility 2, which I ended up selling after a couple of years. I would recommend them to anyone.
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#5065998 Posted on: 05/08/2015 04:18 PM
This is going to be very interesting indeed (fab idea Guru3d ) , i will be following this experiment very closely.
This has to be the best Tech community and review site on the net .
Congrats to the lucky Lab rats .
This is going to be very interesting indeed (fab idea Guru3d ) , i will be following this experiment very closely.
This has to be the best Tech community and review site on the net .
Congrats to the lucky Lab rats .
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#5066035 Posted on: 05/08/2015 04:53 PM
Ho do we know they are not selected/gold samples? Well, we will never know.
Anyway, I'm sure they will perform satisfactorily.
I've a 2'5 years old OCZ Vertex 4 and the new Vector 180. The first one is still running fast and solid like the first day
.
We can always ask ourselves that question, but I'd be more worried with golden-sampling when it comes to big websites doing performance tests on highly-stressed, high-performance, thermally-limited devices (and in fact I am).
Than with lonely wolves testing long-term consistency and reliability like in this case. How do you golden-sample reliability and consistency?
Too much effort required vs potential gains and vs potential backfire.
Ho do we know they are not selected/gold samples? Well, we will never know.
Anyway, I'm sure they will perform satisfactorily.
I've a 2'5 years old OCZ Vertex 4 and the new Vector 180. The first one is still running fast and solid like the first day
.
We can always ask ourselves that question, but I'd be more worried with golden-sampling when it comes to big websites doing performance tests on highly-stressed, high-performance, thermally-limited devices (and in fact I am).
Than with lonely wolves testing long-term consistency and reliability like in this case. How do you golden-sample reliability and consistency?
Too much effort required vs potential gains and vs potential backfire.
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#5066252 Posted on: 05/08/2015 08:15 PM
Very small sample size, like extremely small. Then again, I guess you guys have your limitations.
Very small sample size, like extremely small. Then again, I guess you guys have your limitations.
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Ho do we know they are not selected/gold samples? Well, we will never know.
Anyway, I'm sure they will perform satisfactorily.
I've a 2'5 years old OCZ Vertex 4 and the new Vector 180. The first one is still running fast and solid like the first day
.