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Vertex 2 & 3 are crap?

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mark28

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I saw some really good prices on those 240 gb Vertex 2, only to find alot of people hating on the Vertex 2 and 3 due to unreliability.

Any issues with the MBP in combination with the Vertex 2? They seem to be priced pretty good in comparison to other SSD's and they are really fast too.
 
mark28 said:
I saw some really good prices on those 240 gb Vertex 2, only to find alot of people hating on the Vertex 2 and 3 due to unreliability.

Any issues with the MBP in combination with the Vertex 2? They seem to be priced pretty good in comparison to other SSD's and they are really fast too.
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Had it and didn't experience any trouble.
 
I've had a Vertex 2 60GB running in my MBP 2010 for a year now, and i have had no problems at all.
 
Philflow said:
My first Vertex 3 arrived DOA, the second one was good but had too high power consumption.

I'm now using Seagate Momentus XT, which has a much better price performance ratio in my opnion.
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Surely the Vertex 3 uses less power than the Momentus XT, though, right?
 
I opted for an intel 320 SSD because some of the various problems cropping up regarding vertex. I'm not saying its a bad drive, but there are seemingly some issues being reported with the 3.
 
my vertex2 120 has 6733 power on hours without a hitch, I guess it depends. this is my second vertex (series 1 before this) and neither have given me any hassles.
 
bozz2006 said:
Surely the Vertex 3 uses less power than the Momentus XT, though, right?
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The XT has lower idle consumption, while the Vertex 3 has lower consumption during heavier usage. In the end it works out very similar.

Crucial M4 is a better choice if you're looking for battery life and performance.
 
mark28 said:
I saw some really good prices on those 240 gb Vertex 2, only to find alot of people hating on the Vertex 2 and 3 due to unreliability.

Any issues with the MBP in combination with the Vertex 2? They seem to be priced pretty good in comparison to other SSD's and they are really fast too.
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I have a Vertex 3 Max IOPS. Amazingly fast. I had 0 problems with it in my 2011 13" i5. Not one beach ball and not one crash. The Max IOPS Version has better flash memory.
 
sporadicMotion said:
I have a Vertex 3 Max IOPS. Amazingly fast. I had 0 problems with it in my 2011 13" i5. Not one beach ball and not one crash. The Max IOPS Version has better flash memory.
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Why one in that model when it doesn't support those speeds?
 
Ive had a Vertex, Vertex 2 and Vertex 3 all in different machines, no issues on any of them ever.
 
had mine for a few months. firmware 1.32... absolutely stunning with TRIM on.

but find it extremely difficult to follow and not straight forward to update the firmware on OSX, latest 2.10
 
Philflow said:
The XT has lower idle consumption, while the Vertex 3 has lower consumption during heavier usage. In the end it works out very similar.

Crucial M4 is a better choice if you're looking for battery life and performance.
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as anand said:
"Crucial's very late garbage collection allows the possibility for some very poor write speeds over time. If you're running in a configuration without TRIM support, I'd say this is enough to rule out the m4"

poor garbage collection as no native trim support in OSX= poor choice for the M4 in OSX

i've just ordered the patriot wildfire 120gb - not heard of any major probs on the patriot forum in osx or win 7 - however this drive is still very new though. Sandforce 2200 with 34x NAND flash sound like a winner 2 me in theory - but i've prepared myself for the possibilities of sandforce related issues in the future
 
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nizmoz said:
The Sandy Bridge i7 is the only model that supports the 6gb speeds and that is in the 15" + models only. The 13" does not support it.
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You're misinformed.

EDIT: Here's the aja test from before I sold the 13" i5 Pro.
 

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