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Re: Hard Drive Deals Dble post.
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said by IamGimli:The thing is, you can't salvage customers after pulling such stunts.
I know I'll never again buy an OCZ product, or any product that may come from a company that rises from OCZ ashes.
I experienced something similar with graphics cards from Sapphire, who were using coolers that didn't meet the minimum cooling specs of the generic ATI chipset they were using and I'll never again buy anything from them ever again either.
Those two experiences, within about 6 months, actually taught me a very valuable lesson which I had never had a use for before (and I've been doing IT personally and professionally for over 20 years): that extra 10-15% you pay for the better brands pays for itself in the long run.
Crap. I think my computer is going to implode. It has both an OCZ SSD and a Sapphire Video card.. lol. The Video Card is 1.5 years old now, but the SSD is only 10 months old. |
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| I have two OCZ Agility 3s in service right now, one in my subnotebook (it's not a netbook damnit! haha) and another in my sister's computer. So long as you've got the latest firmware you'll be fine.
My own rig has an Intel 520 as a Windows/boot drive and a Mushkin SSD for Intel SRT on my profile/game drive. The Intel drive obviously won't have any issues, but I haven't had any with the Mushkin either. |
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| Not sure if anyone brought up the high rate of failure for OCZ, as trended on behardware.com, this was all the news in the summer
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- Crucial 0.82% (as against 0.8%)
- Intel 1.73% (as against 0.1%)
- Corsair 2.93% (as against 2.9%)
- OCZ 7.03% (as against 4.2%)
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The first question is of course where the stats come from. They’re taken from a large French etailer, whose database we have had direct access to. We were therefore able to extract the stats we wanted directly from source
So, take it with a grain of salt - »www.behardware.com/articles/862-···s-6.html |
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said by EUS:Sometimes spending more also gets you nowhere.
My two BFG GPUs with lifetime warranties attest to that fact.
As far as I know BFG were never a discount brand. They're not the most expensive but sit well into the middle of the pack price-wise.
They do make great products, I've had a couple of graphics card made by them and they were rock-solid as well.
I've had similar stability from ASUS (except for one MB that shipped with a corrupted BIOS, but that was easily fixed once I was able to figure it out), MSI, Corsair, Intel, Enermax and wouldn't hesitate one minute to pay the extra 10-20$ (if that) for those.
said by zod5000:Crap. I think my computer is going to implode. It has both an OCZ SSD and a Sapphire Video card.. lol. The Video Card is 1.5 years old now, but the SSD is only 10 months old. 
Keep in mind just because one brand is known not to be very reliable doesn't mean you'll necessarily have problems with them. That's particularly true if you don't over-tax those components capabilities.
I have no doubt that Sapphire graphics card I had with the under-spec cooler would've been fine in 90% of home computers which rarely ever really need much graphics horsepower. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. brought it to it's knees though, and most memory chips burned up within a week. Same on the RMA unit. |
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| said by IamGimli:said by EUS:Sometimes spending more also gets you nowhere.
My two BFG GPUs with lifetime warranties attest to that fact.
As far as I know BFG were never a discount brand. They're not the most expensive but sit well into the middle of the pack price-wise. They do make great products, I've had a couple of graphics card made by them and they were rock-solid as well. I wasn't calling BFG a discount brand, I was simply stating that paying a premium sometimes does not work out either, as the company can exit the marketplace for whatever reason.
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OCZ has had numerous major issues with firmware on the 3-series Sandforce drives of which I have no doubt bumped up those numbers. A model-specific breakdown of their RMAs would be interesting to see, as it would probably confirm this.
But, like I said, I have two Agility 3s in service and have had no issues at all. |
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| I have had a Vertex 2 120GB in this laptop, formerly in another laptop with no issues. It has had some vigorous I/O along the way and nothing. I've kept the firmware updated when I get the chance to zero the drive out though. |
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NewEgg.ca $79.99
Western Digital WD Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
»www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as···22136533
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Nice Faxcap, great main hardrive for OS etc...
For those looking at SSDs, I noted tigerdirect has the 240Gb Agility on sale.
»www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/···261-9802
I found this site that appears to do a reasonable tech review which convinced me that if I buy OCZ, its going to be the Vertex 240gb version (hoping it goes on sale).
»www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storag···y-4.html
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said by urbanriot:Not sure if anyone brought up the high rate of failure for OCZ, as trended on behardware.com, this was all the news in the summer
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- Crucial 0.82% (as against 0.8%)
- Intel 1.73% (as against 0.1%)
- Corsair 2.93% (as against 2.9%)
- OCZ 7.03% (as against 4.2%)
- PLEXTOR 0.6%
added one to your list...
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kudos:3 | When I hear the name Plextor, the only thing that comes to mind are CD burners that cost four times as much as the same thing from someone else. |
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North York, ON | said by Gone:When I hear the name Plextor, the only thing that comes to mind are CD burners that cost four times as much as the same thing from someone else.
Oh yes. At one time, they were the drives to get, but they never dropped their prices when the rest of the market did and the premium was not worth it. |
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said by Gone:When I hear the name Plextor, the only thing that comes to mind are CD burners that cost four times as much as the same thing from someone else.
What donoreo said. Back in the day the Plextor's had functions you couldn't find in other drives. At one point it seems they simply gave up... |
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| They were something special back before CD-ROM drives were commodity items, and had some decent burners back in the early days of those products. They quickly became irrelevant though, especially since they still demanded a hefty price premium for their name despite being absolutely nothing fancy in terms of product.
To this day, I just can't shake that image of Plextor. I kind of even feel the same way toward their SSDs, too. |
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| Oh, no, they were the cream of the crop well into the DVD-RW days too. They were one of the first with SATA DVD-RW drives and right out the gate the error correction tests were great coupled with extremely low error rates on scratched discs. They'd also put out firmware updates for better media compatibility, continually, more than anyone else.
Your average person wouldn't appreciate the difference but for people that were archiving music, scratched discs, overburning (at the time a newer concept), and navigating around copy protections, it was the best you could get.
I believe it was around 2004 that the company took a nosedive and stopped producing anything of merit. |
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It was actually around 2006 when it nosedived; in late 05 I had to replace my Plextor 716 and they were still around making a decent product. For accurate rips using Exact Audio Copy nothing beat a Plextor. Then they started rebadging other makes, quality suffered and there was no point in Plextor anymore. |
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| You're right, I just went downstairs to a back storage room and a shelf agrees with you. On it, amongst other pieces of technological nostalgia, is a PX-708A and a PX-716SA. I think I used the PX-708A more recently to extra audio from a heavily scratched out-of-print commercial disc. |
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| Decent deal for Seagate 2TB 7200rpm, $89
»www.canadacomputers.com/product_···d=042241
Sad part it's only 1 year warranty.
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