BingBangBop
Storage is cool
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Do you mean GB rather than TB?
They are not saying how much is stored on the SSDs, but rather how much has been written to the drive over its lifetime.
Do you mean GB rather than TB?
I hope the amount was not much.
My OCZ Vortex SSD that has been used only a few hours per month for less than a year is already crapping out. Writes take far too long and hesitation sometimes freezes the computer. What is the best way to destroy the drive, for example, open the covers and break up the circuit boards and memory chips into pieces? :idea:
My OCZ Vortex SSD that has been used only a few hours per month for less than a year is already crapping out. Writes take far too long and hesitation sometimes freezes the computer. What is the best way to destroy the drive, for example, open the covers and break up the circuit boards and memory chips into pieces? :idea:
Open it up and smash the board with a hammer.
Any zerofill software ought to be enough. Unlike magnetic disks, by their nature SSDs don't partially retain older data when sectors are overwritten. A cell is either a zero or a one. If you flip everything to zeroes, the old data will be completely gone beyond the ability of even the NSA to recover. Destroying it seems a waste of a (potentially) useful to someone SSD.My OCZ Vortex SSD that has been used only a few hours per month for less than a year is already crapping out. Writes take far too long and hesitation sometimes freezes the computer. What is the best way to destroy the drive, for example, open the covers and break up the circuit boards and memory chips into pieces? :idea:
I might suggest RMA'ing the drive and selling the replacement....My OCZ Vortex SSD that has been used only a few hours per month for less than a year is already crapping out. Writes take far too long and hesitation sometimes freezes the computer. What is the best way to destroy the drive, for example, open the covers and break up the circuit boards and memory chips into pieces? :idea:
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/f...-A-simple-guide-for-speeding-up-EOL-OCZ-SSD-s.I could not easily figure out anything from their website the last time I checked it. There is no end user support other than forums as far as I oculd determine.
Lunar doesn't RMA drives. He's too worried about his data getting out into the wild. :bomb:I might suggest RMA'ing the drive and selling the replacement....
It was a hundred dollar drive in Q1 and is not worth the hassle. Besides, who wants a nasty old refurb and who knows what kinds of disgusting data it may have contained?
I dunno. I've never heard of anyone getting a refurb drive from OCZ.Besides, who wants a nasty old refurb and who knows what kinds of disgusting data it may have contained?
And I will take a nasty old refurb if the price is right. I've gotten a lot of perfectly good reworked parts on the cheap.
Is this SSD a good choice?
It must at least be really cute.The Munchkin drive is running out of bus speed for some reason.
I've looked at the websites for Corsair, G.Skill, MachXtreme, Patriot and Solidata. Only MachXtreme appears to be offering updated Sandforce firmware; it's 3.20. This makes me lean very heavily towards the firm that actually bothers to pay for production-ready updates and make them available to their customers. :-x