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OWC SSD's Die Fast?
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there is a two year warranty on it.
SSDs should last years so I'm not sure why it died so fast
I'm pretty sure the OWC 120 I just bought has a 3-year warranty. I think the rule-of-thumb is: any electronics can die at any time.
The OWC warranties are either 3 or 5 years-not 2 years. I do not know where you heard about 6 months and die. Never heard that before your post. If that where the case all the SSD manufacturers (and that is most) with 3 year warranties will be replacing them 6 times during the first units warranty period.
Fact is things break. I have had plenty of platter drives go in my lifetime so far-maybe 12 to15 up until now-that's one a year on average.
I've seen several OCZ Vertex 2's dying quite soon and some being DOA so it could be an issue with SF-1200 controller. However, both, OCZ and OWC have great customer service so just give them a call and your issue will be solved
Good point about the controllers. Many months back on the high priced OWC's they had a SF-1500 controller issue and dropped back to the 1200's. I confirmed that about 7-10 days ago with OWC. They are still using the 1200's until the 1500 issue is worked out-what ever that means?
look at how many OCZ fail ?
yeah bummer for sure the one thing would love to hear how OWC handles the return so if you can keep us posted how they handle the return would be thankful
they dont call it the comfy cozy snuggles edge
I was daisy chaining some OWC mercury elite pro alu enclosures and one of the FW800 ports on one was dead. Called customer service and even on that small item they 2day aired one to me on a cross-over shipment.
No questions asked- just replaced it and the replacement works fine.
It looks like my OWC SSD just went belly up. It doesn't mount at all and isn't visible anywhere. Under eight months young. We should have a survey of people posting their brand and time of death in a chart somewhere. That would be useful reading before buying one.
Apple uses Toshiba and Samsung in MacBook Airs and apparently those two brands seem to be the most reliable at the moment. Nothing to worry about.
mine went at 6 months. back to my trusted scorpio black.
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I buy my Mac's stripped down, bone stock with exception to processor version and then max them out with drives and ram from OWC. I have had ram go bad, sent my SSD in for a firmware upgrade. In return I get brand new sets of ram and they even gave me a brand new SSD instead of the old one with firmware, they are truly above and beyond in product support and customer service, I don't bother with anyone else...
That said, I do regular backups of my boot drives via Time Machine and off site storage, my intel 160GB has been faultless in my MacBook Pro as well...
I buy my Mac's stripped down, bone stock with exception to processor version and then max them out with drives and ram from OWC. I have had ram go bad, sent my SSD in for a firmware upgrade. In return I get brand new sets of ram and they even gave me a brand new SSD instead of the old one with firmware, they are truly above and beyond in product support and customer service, I don't bother with anyone else...
That said, I do regular backups of my boot drives via Time Machine and off site storage, my intel 160GB has been faultless in my MacBook Pro as well...
At the risk of repeating a common piece of forum wisdom, I'd point out that web forum posters tend to be the most tech-savvy, unsatisfied, unlucky subgroup of users...because the 90% of users who are fine report nothing.
What you may see here as a higher incidence of failure may be nothing more than selection bias.
After all, Intel recently had an issue with their new batch of SSDs. When it comes to storage, I'd just treat SSDs like HDDs - expect failures, back up, view the warranty as nothing more than a free replacement in case of early failure.
What you may see here as a higher incidence of failure may be nothing more than selection bias.
After all, Intel recently had an issue with their new batch of SSDs. When it comes to storage, I'd just treat SSDs like HDDs - expect failures, back up, view the warranty as nothing more than a free replacement in case of early failure.
This.
It doesn't matter the brand, how long you've had it, etc. Any electronic can go at any time. Its completely common believe it or not.
At work the other day we got 20 new laptop hard drives in, 4 got sent back because they were DOA. Its normal with electronics.
I have one of the original OWC SF1200 100GB SSD's that I bought when they first came out ( @ $4.00/GB), it's still running fine. There was an interesting article on Tom's Hardware on SSD reliability.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-reliability-failure-rate,2923.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-reliability-failure-rate,2923.html
That concentrates on NAND wear out, it doesn't take e.g. controller failures into account. We'll be launching an SSD reliability survey over at AnandTech soon though, so we may finally get some real data on the reliability.