Hello!
Back in November I got an OCZ Vertex2 120gb for my late 2008 unibody 2.4ghz 15.4 inches Macbook Pro, and put it in an optibay caddy instead of the superdrive, while my old drive remained for data and big stuff in the main bay. Now all was fine and blazing fast until a month ago, all of a sudden, eternal spinning beachball of death, computer hangs, I reboot and nothing happens, blocked at the gray screen before the apple appears. After fiddling around I discover that the SSD broke down and as long as it was connected you could not even boot. OCZ RMA is very good and in a couple of weeks I get the replacement. I put it in the main bay this time, to avoid problems. Install SnowLeo, update to latest software, install all apps, start working... in less than two hours: spinning beachball of death. I hard reset, and now it hangs a couple of seconds after successfully booting. I put it in an external enclosure to check and it disconnects randomly. Did Disk Util repair and disk permissions, disable SMS, etc. No change. RMA again I guess.
My question is: have I really been unlucky with two faulty SSDs or could it be my computer somehow? It works a charm now with my old hard disk in. Also, I did not remove the optibay caddy, so that works perfect. It is a problem with the SSD. Reluctantly I bought an OWC Mercury, to see if maybe there is some metaphysical problem with OCZ that I'm the only one experiencing, but I am really scared that even this one will get bricked for no reason.
Any clues?
Have I just been unlucky? (this theory is endorsed by the fact that in the same days I had to RMA my kindle and also my dehumidifier...)
Back in November I got an OCZ Vertex2 120gb for my late 2008 unibody 2.4ghz 15.4 inches Macbook Pro, and put it in an optibay caddy instead of the superdrive, while my old drive remained for data and big stuff in the main bay. Now all was fine and blazing fast until a month ago, all of a sudden, eternal spinning beachball of death, computer hangs, I reboot and nothing happens, blocked at the gray screen before the apple appears. After fiddling around I discover that the SSD broke down and as long as it was connected you could not even boot. OCZ RMA is very good and in a couple of weeks I get the replacement. I put it in the main bay this time, to avoid problems. Install SnowLeo, update to latest software, install all apps, start working... in less than two hours: spinning beachball of death. I hard reset, and now it hangs a couple of seconds after successfully booting. I put it in an external enclosure to check and it disconnects randomly. Did Disk Util repair and disk permissions, disable SMS, etc. No change. RMA again I guess.
My question is: have I really been unlucky with two faulty SSDs or could it be my computer somehow? It works a charm now with my old hard disk in. Also, I did not remove the optibay caddy, so that works perfect. It is a problem with the SSD. Reluctantly I bought an OWC Mercury, to see if maybe there is some metaphysical problem with OCZ that I'm the only one experiencing, but I am really scared that even this one will get bricked for no reason.
Any clues?
Have I just been unlucky? (this theory is endorsed by the fact that in the same days I had to RMA my kindle and also my dehumidifier...)