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  1. Santilli

    Fastest , most useless RMA ever, for me, OCZ

    4-4 arrived at 9:03 am. Formatted through the toaster. This drive appears unused, no crossed out serial number on the box, doesn't appear to be worn around the connectors at all. SN is 0140411-3000067 PN OCZSSD2-1VTXT30G OCZSSD2-1VTXT30G However, the connectors aren't bright copper, but...
  2. Santilli

    SSDs - State of the Product?

    They knew it was you Merc, and, figured they needed some good press on the website;-)
  3. Santilli

    SSDs - State of the Product?

    drive showed up as dead on my controller card, where it had been fine before. Better to RMA the drive, or so far, maybe not;-( Anyway, the replacement drive wasn't formatted, so should be zeroed when formatted, if a long format is used.?
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    SSDs - State of the Product?

    OK: So a pagefile of let's say 1 gig, on a 30 gig blank drive, would be distributed over the drive, as the wear indicates, not just in a 1 gig space. The problem I had with the OCZ drive was once it was pulled from the array, and put in the beast, it showed up as 128 gigs, even though it was 30...
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    Failure rate statistics

    "Food: - 6,16% : Fortron Blue Storm Bronze 500 - 6.16%: Fortron Blue Storm 500 Bronze - 2,63% : HIPER New S S625 - 2.63%: HIPER New S S625 - 2,26% : Antec EarthWatts EA650 - 2.26%: Antec EarthWatts EA650 " Hmmm. Perhaps this article is computer generated? Hal lives?;-)
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    SSDs - State of the Product?

    Page file on SSD? If so, how big? Raid stops trim? Hi Couple questions. If you get a RMA'd OCZ Vertex Turbo, that you now have little use for, and, you wanted to set it up as a page file drive, how big would you make the page file to avoid writing to the same area over and over? Second: Is it...
  7. Santilli

    Fastest , most useless RMA ever, for me, OCZ

    Yesterday was Tuesday.
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    Fastest , most useless RMA ever, for me, OCZ

    I called this morning, and, they emailed me the prepaid shipping label. It's on the package, and, going out today.
  9. Santilli

    Fastest , most useless RMA ever, for me, OCZ

    The RMA posted 4 days ago. STILL haven't got the shipping label emailed. What's the cheapest way to ship a drive that size, with delivery confirmation? Post office fixed rate box, 5 bucks? Throw it in an envelope, and send it?
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    Fastest , most useless RMA ever, for me, OCZ

    Sunday and no emailed UPS label.
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    Fastest , most useless RMA ever, for me, OCZ

    RMA today, no shipping label Trouble Ticket ID: 176120 Description: OCZSSD2-1VTXT30G ------------------------------------------------------- Please be advised that the status on your trouble ticket has been changed from Waiting on Customer to In Progress with the following comment...
  12. Santilli

    Fastest , most useless RMA ever, for me, OCZ

    No response today...
  13. Santilli

    Something Random

    Two Lacrosse games Friday night. Up at 5 am, drive to sac, work till 6pm. State finals in basketball tomorrow night. Have a floor seat to watch the finals at 7:30 PM.
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    Fastest , most useless RMA ever, for me, OCZ

    Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: ocztechnology@exdesk.com Technical details of permanent failure: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the...
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    Fastest , most useless RMA ever, for me, OCZ

    Second day email: "Hi EU147402. Trouble Ticket ID: 174509 Description: OCZSSD2-1VTXT30G ------------------------------------------------------- Please be advised that the status on your trouble ticket has been changed from Waiting on Customer to In Progress with the following comment...
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    Fastest , most useless RMA ever, for me, OCZ

    Today's message: "Trouble Ticket ID: 176120 Description: OCZSSD2-1VTXT30G ------------------------------------------------------- Please be advised that the status on your trouble ticket has been changed from Submitted to Acknowledged. "
  17. Santilli

    Companies that have burnt...

    I maybe adding OCZ to this list;-(
  18. Santilli

    Fastest , most useless RMA ever, for me, OCZ

    Works for me;-)
  19. Santilli

    Watching old fight films of Tyson and Pacquiao

    torrents. 31 fights of Manny, and the complete Mike Tyson.
  20. Santilli

    SSD in RAID

    Might be something like come out with a quality product, low profit margin. Get customer acceptance, and following, then follow with a cheaper, higher profit item, at near the same price? Just guessing...
  21. Santilli

    Fastest , most useless RMA ever, for me, OCZ

    Moderator around? I think we should change the title;-) No response so far today.
  22. Santilli

    Fastest , most useless RMA ever, for me, OCZ

    3 PM, no response. Going to work. Looks like the first day of waiting.
  23. Santilli

    SSD in RAID

    HMMM. I'm using two Vertex Turbo's on the 9550 with no problems, in Raid 0, and, prior to that, was running 3 in Raid 0. I'd test each drive. Sounds like one of them is not working. The vertex turbo that went bad was seen by 7 Ultimate, but would not format. Try different cables, and try them...
  24. Santilli

    It's 34 degrees, and snowing outside, in Northern Kalifornia???WTF?

    It rained pretty much all last week. LaCrosse you ref in the rain. Baseball you get canceled, and don't get paid. It's raining, pretty much non-stop, all this week, maybe clearing Sunday. This week is all Lacrosse, with me canceling the baseball to do basketball Saturday, and, hoping it clears...
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    SSD in RAID

    Yes. I'm kind of curious. For a server, isn't the load usually very heavily in favor of Reads? Also, keep in mind that Crystal Disk Mark has a bit of variation from version to version. The last test was done with 29% full drive, vs. 49% for the first test.? So, perhaps it does read faster the...
  26. Santilli

    Watching old fight films of Tyson and Pacquiao

    I've been watching a bunch of Tyson's old fights. When you see them one after the other, at least the early ones, and your an old fight fan/boxer, it brings up the following conclusions, at least for me: Cus DeAmato kept Tyson in shape. When he would bob and weave, and throw combinations, he...
  27. Santilli

    SSD in RAID

    My observations: First Crystal bench mark, on newly installed array last year: Here is a test ran today: Comments? Conclusions?
  28. Santilli

    Fastest , most useless RMA ever, for me, OCZ

    The plastic around this SATA connector is so old or worn that it would not hold a Sata cable in place, and broke off. I've created ANOTHER RMA, SENT IN THIS MORNING. So, we'll see if Merc's right about the slow email reply. I also asked them to pay for shipping. GS PS The drive worked fine in...
  29. Santilli

    Fastest , most useless RMA ever, for me, OCZ

    I opened the box and noticed the serial number is similar to the one I sent in, and, this ones serial number has been written over on both box and drive. It appears the drive has been 'recertified', and is not new. The model number is the same as the one I sent in. Guess I better plug it in...
  30. Santilli

    Fastest , most useless RMA ever, for me, OCZ

    Merc: What RMA center did you decide to deal with, Hong Kong>;-)?
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    Fastest , most useless RMA ever, for me, OCZ

    I just checked the packing slip and box. OCZ got the drive the 18th, and shipped an RMA the next day, via FEDIPD, whatever that is. It took Fedex till the 22nd to deliver. So the drive arrived the 18th, replacement shipped the 19th, and Fedex took Monday, one business day, to get it to me this...
  32. Santilli

    Fastest , most useless RMA ever, for me, OCZ

    I was lucky the whole way around UPS was closed, and the guy just happened to be at the back of the store, and was nice enough to take it. I've NEVER had anything get to the destination in less then one day. It was on the truck at 8PM, and arrived the next afternoon. It might be that the only...
  33. Santilli

    Why ECC RAM?

    "So you're saying that we should worry about our PCs turning into rubber or catching fire and flying around the room?" Considering what just happened in Japan, that is no longer funny, and, in some places, my guess is that's exactly what happened. "I notice you managed to acknowledge her skill...
  34. Santilli

    Failure rate statistics

    Good link, and post. Thanks. The page listing Power supplies under the heading, "food" certainly gave me pause, and wondered who, or what wrote the article;0
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    SSD in RAID

    DD: How many OCZ Vertex Turbos have you used, with what failure rate? I really see only one drive for this sort of thing. That would be the Intel X-25M. Not even SP1 messed them up;-). Two 160 gig X-25M's still going strong, in Raid 0, using onboard Gigabyte GA 58 onboard Raid 0.
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    Fastest , most useless RMA ever, for me, OCZ

    Hi I sent my drive out Wednesday last week. Met a UPS driver outside a store in Pleasant Hill at about 8 PM. He took, and scanned the package. It was delivered to OCZ's RMA location in Silicon Valley the NEXT day, that would be Thursday, by order confirmation. This morning, Tuesday, two...
  37. Santilli

    Companies that have burnt...

    Mine.
  38. Santilli

    Companies that have burnt...

    Seems to Supermicro tried to enter cheap markets, and, their stuff is just that, cheap. Atom servers from a high end server company? The Sata 'backplane' they sold was cheaper then the 100 bucks it cost, and I returned it. I wonder if they cheapening of the line applies to their high end...
  39. Santilli

    iPad: any experience?

    I tried that. Have a weird login problem, person doesn't know her password. So, we can't login on the itunes site. I tried the instructions to sync books, but, didn't work. Doesn't matter, since it takes seconds to download the books from Gutenberg. I now feel dirty, used, and abused. Apple...
  40. Santilli

    iPad: any experience?

    Kindle was easy to plug in, and transfer ebooks from Gutenberg. Using the USBcable from the ipad, I plugged it in but, it wouldn't transfer files, in fact the drive doesn't even show up. More research...
  41. Santilli

    iPad: any experience?

    Anyone have a cheap, or favorite way of transfering data, like ebooks, from a PC, with let's say Guetenberg, to the ipad2? USB cable? ImTOO software, etc.? Thanks GS
  42. Santilli

    Hi David I was wondering if you might have some old, LONG cables laying around. My home...

    Hi David I was wondering if you might have some old, LONG cables laying around. My home theater system is driving me nuts. I'm looking for a long cable to connect the sound card to the amp. I use the one plug cable that looks like, and currently is, a monster cable, single end on both sides...
  43. Santilli

    Worst and best movie of the year: and the winner is...

    I'm reviewing more movies, prior to posting the best of the year. So far, the worst was a clear winner;-)
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    Worst and best movie of the year: and the winner is...

    For me, so far, worst: Universal soldier: Regeneration Complete Cast of Universal Soldier: Regeneration * Jean-Claude Van Damme - Luc Deveraux * Andrei Arlovski - UniSol * Garry Cooper - Dr. Porter * Emily Joyce - Dr. Fleming * Kerry Shale - Dr. Colin * Dolph Lundgren...
  45. Santilli

    SSDs - State of the Product?

    I just had one of three Vertex turbos die. Is it worth trying to RMA the drive? Experience?
  46. Santilli

    Companies that have burnt...

    "Sense of Adventure?" Odd, but no one has ever accused me of lacking THAT;-) Turns out, it didn't work, even in compatibility mode, and, Nero does so little I can't do with other programs, I don't see a reason to waste anymore time on it. Still, the media player, if it does play Blu-ray well...
  47. Santilli

    tsunami

    http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/tsunami-photo-gallery_53348/
  48. Santilli

    tsunami

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/infographics/earthquakes/ This earthquake is huge. David, which harbor?
  49. Santilli

    Anybody still using Nero? Tried their Bluray player?

    Installed 6. Didn't like 7 Ultimate. Ran it in compatibility mode, no luck. Don't see any reason for it. Windows burner pretty much worked.
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