SSD Thread (Benchmarks, Brands, News, and Advice)

[James D]

Too late. Nobody trusts OCZ and SF anymore

[tilleroftheearth]

Yep. SF released new firmware which fix BSOD issue and it works.

Lol... how is this 'fix' any different from the previous (year's worth) of 'fixes'?

I thought that they were blaming Intel for the 'bugs'? Or Microsoft?

Or, Mike down the street or Sandra because she used mascara on Tuesday?

For the sake of the people who have been guinea pigs for the last few months, I sincerely hope that this is indeed fixed now.

However, I still want SF to disappear (because I don't see them able to do a complete about-face) and let the real SSD guru's bring real improvements in storage subsystems once more (and they will, when their sales go flat and they need to see the upward climbing graphs again).

OCZ, by backing SF so blindly, is not too high on my list either - I'm hoping that they will learn from their 'marriage' to SF and return to providing real value and service to their customers. But I want to see real proof of that before they're my vendor anytime soon.

SF on the other hand is all about smoke and mirrors, broken promises and deceit. In all ways they conduct themselves.

SF? Not even on my death bed.

(Now, watch me proved wrong).

[madmattd]

Yep. SF released new firmware which fix BSOD issue and it works.

Sadly, I doubt it. OCZ release an alleged fix for BSODs a few months back that fixed roughly ZERO of the cases. Granted this is Sandforce releasing a fix, but still.

And wonder of wonders, they claim the issue is in the firmware. After 8-10 months of saying the issue was definitely NOT firmware.

BURN SANDFORCE, BURN! Take OCZ with you...not just for their blind lemming-like follow-the-blind-leader mentality. Some of the worst customer support people I have ever had the displeasure of working with...liars too! /RANT

[Abula]

Its going to be interesting to see if people here recommend intel when they start using sanforce in the 520s.

[tilleroftheearth]

If it's Intel firmware running - I'll probably be the first to recommend them.

My 'line' won't have changed - it will still be 'buy Intel'.

[Abidderman]

Lol... how is this 'fix' any different from the previous (year's worth) of 'fixes'?

I thought that they were blaming Intel for the 'bugs'? Or Microsoft?

Or, Mike down the street or Sandra because she used mascara on Tuesday?

For the sake of the people who have been guinea pigs for the last few months, I sincerely hope that this is indeed fixed now.

However, I still want SF to disappear (because I don't see them able to do a complete about-face) and let the real SSD guru's bring real improvements in storage subsystems once more (and they will, when their sales go flat and they need to see the upward climbing graphs again).

OCZ, by backing SF so blindly, is not too high on my list either - I'm hoping that they will learn from their 'marriage' to SF and return to providing real value and service to their customers. But I want to see real proof of that before they're my vendor anytime soon.

SF on the other hand is all about smoke and mirrors, broken promises and deceit. In all ways they conduct themselves.

SF? Not even on my death bed.

(Now, watch me proved wrong).

LOL. This is too funny. But unfortunately, too true. Good stuff Tiller.

[cknobman]

Wow a lot of SandForce hate in here!!!!

I have a 2nd gen SandForce drive and several of my developer coworkers do as well. We have all been running our systems without any problems. Both of my coworkers have Sandy Bridge systems and I have what is in my sig.

We are completely happy with our drives performance and reliability so far. In fact I was at the point of selling my laptop until I slapped a Corsair Force 3 120gb SSD in it. Now my laptop is the system of choice for me to use again (since my desktop does not have a SSD yet).

FTR both of my coworkers drives are 60gb OCZ drives.

[tilleroftheearth]

Nah, not hate: just trying to protect ourselves from immature/beta/alpha products passed off as retail.

Consider yourselves lucky then that you have had no reliability/dependabilty issues.

OCZ/SF would not have released this latest Firmware specifically for this problem (again) if there were no issues to fix.

[madmattd]

Nah, not hate: just trying to protect ourselves from immature/beta/alpha products passed off as retail.

Consider yourselves lucky then that you have had no reliability/dependabilty issues.

OCZ/SF would not have released this latest Firmware specifically for this problem (again) if there were no issues to fix.

Right!

And of course said issues have dated back to the first drives they released, and they kept saying the problem didn't exist...interesting that they finally changed their story.

[davepermen]

I left for a while, and I'm back now. First scan reveals: nothing new, same old same old.

my ssd plans are the new win7 samsung tablet (same as the win8 tablet), with 128gb ssd in it. i guess it's a samsung ssd in there.