I bought one OCZ drive a year after Toshiba took over. The SSD failed after one month, and they replaced it with a better model (I had to pay for the shipping), after another month or so, the new drive also failed. I contacted them again but this time I said I was not going to pay for shipping. They agreed, and sent me their top of the line model which has 5 year warranty and it's been working fine (knock on wood) for a bit longer than a year.
While that doesn't speak to the quality of the drives, at least the customer service stepped up. The old OCZ days were just fraught with stories about the customer service affectively being MIA.
both my ocz vertex III and Agility III are still running fine lol. Meanwhile i bought an assorted battery of other SSDs, Main rig running Sandisk Extreme Pro.
Likewise! I have that same drive as my boot drive for my HTPC. Its definitely slower than it once was but thankfully it keeps on chugging. My next gen HTPC will include a newer, bigger boot drive. Not sure what will happen to the SATA II drive when I rebuild...
A Vertex 2 is Super Easy to Kill Just follow OCZ recommendations on upgrading the firmware (NO, I am NOT joking) B.T.W., Anandtech really needs to update their testing procedure for SSD's The original Vertex could copy and paste a 2GB file (to and from the same drive) at a blistering rate of 3.6 - 3.7 MB/sec A Samsung 840 Pro can copy/paste the same file at 56.8 MB/sec A Samsung 850 Pro can copy/paste the same file at 113.7 MB/sec YES, AN 850 PRO IS TWICE AS FAST AS AN 840 PRO! Disclaimer: ALL tests made with XP-SP2 on SATA2 Ports using IDE protocol Your results will vary depending on O.S. / Port Type and Protocol Hardware and O.S. were kept identical to that used when testing the Vertex 1 & 2 which are no longer available for testing on newer hardware
Hi JebSpringfield, As this is my first post on this article please allow me to identify myself as a Toshiba America Electronic Components (TAEC) representative. Thank you for your comment and great to hear the current replacement drive is working well for you. We greatly appreciate both your business and support.
Hi fanofanand, Thank you for your comment and your business. I'm sorry to hear that you had issues in the past. We understand how you feel and hope that one day we will have the opportunity to demonstrate the reliability of our current Toshiba products. Thanks again for your feedback.
I like their RMA... but their Vector series is such a disaster i have to RMA my drive 3 times, and they finally give me a Vector150 which has been solid... SMART reading is getting a lot worse these days, i'm using it sololy for caching now... I have their Vertex 3 and Vertex 4, those drives are quite better than the first gen Vector drives...
Hi bug77, Thank you for your feedback. We believe that there is still a market for mainstream SATA with MLC. For users that are not quite ready for NVMe VX500 will provide the long term reliability/endurance they need. Our 5 year Advanced Warranty service helps ensure mainstream users have peace of mind should there be any issues. Thank you again for your input.
It's nice to see MLC SSDs still out there, but I'm not sure the VX500 is really worth the MSRP. They're asking a lot for their 1TB model. I think the price increase isn't worth the benefits MLC offers over the plethora of much cheaper TLC drives.
They have dropped significantly. Check out the price table from the 850EVO launch review which was less than two years ago. Cheapest $/GB drive was the 240GB ARC 100 @ 42c/GB. That table in this article has a bunch of drives cheaper than that, and it's mid-range SATA drives. There are entry level 480GB drives going today that are only $10 more than the budget 240GB drives from less than two years ago.
I'd call that pretty reasonable progress on the $/GB front.
They've come down, but not as dramatically as before. I remember well over a year ago being able to buy a SDD for 25 cents/GB on a good deal, and now it's about 20 cents/GB. Perhaps it's because of the slow transition to 3D NAND, but I'm hoping the pace picks up again.
I don't really understand the final words giving the drive praise. It didn't seem to perform that much better compared other drives, including it's predecessor. Even in ATSB-Destroyer it had middling performance with good power consumption.
I had a VTR1-25SAT3-512G with a 5 year Warranty. It has 4k Random Write: 95K IOPS; 4k Random Read: 100K IOPS according to the specs. It died a few weeks ago and it is being replaced with a VX500. It has a spec of 4k Random Write: 64K IOPS; 4k Random Read: 92K IOPS. The replacement drive is slower than the one I had before. Wouldn't a more fair replacement be a VT180? 4k Random Write: 90K IOPS; 4k Random Read: 90K IOPS
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Chaitanya - Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - link
How is the after sales service of these drives since Toshiba take over? I have heard some horror stories of RMA with OCZ in past.JebSpringfield - Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - link
I bought one OCZ drive a year after Toshiba took over. The SSD failed after one month, and they replaced it with a better model (I had to pay for the shipping), after another month or so, the new drive also failed. I contacted them again but this time I said I was not going to pay for shipping. They agreed, and sent me their top of the line model which has 5 year warranty and it's been working fine (knock on wood) for a bit longer than a year.Sorry but I don't remember the models.
Meegul - Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - link
While that doesn't speak to the quality of the drives, at least the customer service stepped up. The old OCZ days were just fraught with stories about the customer service affectively being MIA.StevoLincolnite - Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - link
...I'm still running a 64Gb OCZ Vertex 2 from 6-7 years ago... I WANT IT TO DIE SO I CAN UPGRADE.gammaray - Wednesday, September 14, 2016 - link
both my ocz vertex III and Agility III are still running fine lol. Meanwhile i bought an assorted battery of other SSDs, Main rig running Sandisk Extreme Pro.creed3020 - Wednesday, September 14, 2016 - link
Likewise! I have that same drive as my boot drive for my HTPC. Its definitely slower than it once was but thankfully it keeps on chugging. My next gen HTPC will include a newer, bigger boot drive. Not sure what will happen to the SATA II drive when I rebuild...Bullwinkle J Moose - Monday, October 3, 2016 - link
A Vertex 2 is Super Easy to KillJust follow OCZ recommendations on upgrading the firmware
(NO, I am NOT joking)
B.T.W.,
Anandtech really needs to update their testing procedure for SSD's
The original Vertex could copy and paste a 2GB file (to and from the same drive) at a blistering rate of 3.6 - 3.7 MB/sec
A Samsung 840 Pro can copy/paste the same file at 56.8 MB/sec
A Samsung 850 Pro can copy/paste the same file at 113.7 MB/sec
YES, AN 850 PRO IS TWICE AS FAST AS AN 840 PRO!
Disclaimer:
ALL tests made with XP-SP2 on SATA2 Ports using IDE protocol
Your results will vary depending on O.S. / Port Type and Protocol
Hardware and O.S. were kept identical to that used when testing the Vertex 1 & 2 which are no longer available for testing on newer hardware
ocztaec - Thursday, September 15, 2016 - link
Hi JebSpringfield,As this is my first post on this article please allow me to identify myself as a Toshiba America Electronic Components (TAEC) representative. Thank you for your comment and great to hear the current replacement drive is working well for you. We greatly appreciate both your business and support.
fanofanand - Wednesday, September 14, 2016 - link
I won't be taking the risk. They refused to honor their warranty when my OCZ DDR2 sticks failed. Lifetime warranty my azz.....ocztaec - Thursday, September 15, 2016 - link
Hi fanofanand,Thank you for your comment and your business. I'm sorry to hear that you had issues in the past. We understand how you feel and hope that one day we will have the opportunity to demonstrate the reliability of our current Toshiba products. Thanks again for your feedback.
zodiacsoulmate - Monday, September 19, 2016 - link
I like their RMA... but their Vector series is such a disaster i have to RMA my drive 3 times, and they finally give me a Vector150 which has been solid... SMART reading is getting a lot worse these days, i'm using it sololy for caching now... I have their Vertex 3 and Vertex 4, those drives are quite better than the first gen Vector drives...shabby - Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - link
Will you be reviewing the intel 600p and samsung pm961(960 evo) any time soon?Ryan Smith - Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - link
Yes, we have the 600p in-house. So you will be seeing it soon.bug77 - Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - link
Looks like a pretty pointless product to me. Then again, maybe it's only meant to tick a few checkboxes so that it can be sold to OEMs.ocztaec - Thursday, September 15, 2016 - link
Hi bug77,Thank you for your feedback. We believe that there is still a market for mainstream SATA with MLC. For users that are not quite ready for NVMe VX500 will provide the long term reliability/endurance they need. Our 5 year Advanced Warranty service helps ensure mainstream users have peace of mind should there be any issues. Thank you again for your input.
Arbie - Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - link
For at least six months we've had the Mushkin Reactor 1TB drive for $230. How is this OCZ worth $340 today?BrokenCrayons - Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - link
It's nice to see MLC SSDs still out there, but I'm not sure the VX500 is really worth the MSRP. They're asking a lot for their 1TB model. I think the price increase isn't worth the benefits MLC offers over the plethora of much cheaper TLC drives.kfleszar - Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - link
I wish Intel 540s was included among the compared SSDs.DanNeely - Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - link
Am I missing it, or are these not in Bench yet?Billy Tallis - Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - link
They're in Bench, I just forgot to uncheck to box that keeps them hidden. We can't set the to automatically go public when the review embargo expires.Lolimaster - Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - link
LOL $337? You can get 1TB and 1 500GB Crucial MX500 with just a few more bucks.Lolimaster - Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - link
MX3002016, still no edit button, GG.
sonicmerlin - Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - link
Feels like SSD prices/GB have been pretty stagnant the last couple years.rhysiam - Wednesday, September 14, 2016 - link
They have dropped significantly. Check out the price table from the 850EVO launch review which was less than two years ago. Cheapest $/GB drive was the 240GB ARC 100 @ 42c/GB. That table in this article has a bunch of drives cheaper than that, and it's mid-range SATA drives. There are entry level 480GB drives going today that are only $10 more than the budget 240GB drives from less than two years ago.I'd call that pretty reasonable progress on the $/GB front.
rhysiam - Wednesday, September 14, 2016 - link
Here's the table from the 850EVO launch review: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8747/samsung-ssd-850...sonicmerlin - Wednesday, September 14, 2016 - link
The EVO was always higher priced. Look at the average prices:https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/internal-har...
They've come down, but not as dramatically as before. I remember well over a year ago being able to buy a SDD for 25 cents/GB on a good deal, and now it's about 20 cents/GB. Perhaps it's because of the slow transition to 3D NAND, but I'm hoping the pace picks up again.
Hiniberus - Wednesday, September 21, 2016 - link
When will these go on sale? I'm curious about them but I can't find any store that has them in stock!superunknown98 - Friday, September 23, 2016 - link
I don't really understand the final words giving the drive praise. It didn't seem to perform that much better compared other drives, including it's predecessor. Even in ATSB-Destroyer it had middling performance with good power consumption.cargostud - Thursday, February 2, 2017 - link
I had a VTR1-25SAT3-512G with a 5 year Warranty. It has 4k Random Write: 95K IOPS; 4k Random Read: 100K IOPS according to the specs. It died a few weeks ago and it is being replaced with a VX500. It has a spec of 4k Random Write: 64K IOPS; 4k Random Read: 92K IOPS. The replacement drive is slower than the one I had before. Wouldn't a more fair replacement be a VT180? 4k Random Write: 90K IOPS; 4k Random Read: 90K IOPS