I thought it was a SandStorm defect.
Yes it is a Sandforce problem. But unless you are encrypting the hard drive, why would there be a Problem?
Anand says ...
You lost me right there.
I suspect he's been bought and paid for a few times by different OEMs, much like Tom of Tom's Hardware.
With a little help from a friend and a planned stop at Microcenter, I'm going to be able to build two i3-2100 systems with 120GB SSDs for a total of $704 this week. How sweet is that?
Never heard of Anand Lal Shimpi?
That doesn't exactly sound like a ringing endorsement of sandforce to me.
Obviously you haven't been following his work for very long then. Until Intel suddenly fronted up and told him the Sandforce firmware was rubbish and only they could fix it, Sandforce could do no wrong. Now everyone else is crap but - against the evidence of history - anything Intel is guaranteed to be good because he can feel it in his water (or something).
The more gushing promos of OCZ have disappeared (too old I assume), but I did find this little nugget in a review of the Vertex 3:
"Thankfully while OCZ may be a much larger organization today than just a few years ago, it still has a lot of the DNA of a small, customer-centric company."
Obviously you haven't been following his work for very long then. Until Intel suddenly fronted up and told him the Sandforce firmware was rubbish and only they could fix it, Sandforce could do no wrong. Now everyone else is crap but - against the evidence of history - anything Intel is guaranteed to be good because he can feel it in his water (or something).
The more gushing promos of OCZ have disappeared (too old I assume), but I did find this little nugget in a review of the Vertex 3:
"Thankfully while OCZ may be a much larger organization today than just a few years ago, it still has a lot of the DNA of a small, customer-centric company."
My notebook upgrade kit version came with a product key on the back of the Ghost CD envelope.I have the drive and it shipped with current firmware. Downloaded ghost from samsungs support site (right next to the 830 firmware) and that is asking for a registration key that wasn't included. Guess all you get is the ghost 30 day trial.