![]() 3-4 years ago when I was upgrading to SSDs I bought all OCZ products simple because there was nothing else that was affordable at the time. Their great products were fantastic and cheap, while their crap was really truly crap. My own expierence with OCZ was hit and miss. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.įollow us on Facebook, Google+, RSS, Twitter and YouTube. MORE: Best SSDs For The Money MORE: Latest Storage NewsĬhris Ramseyer is a Contributing Editor for Tom's Hardware, covering Storage. I'm not so sure that will happen because Toshiba is trying to make a profit, and OCZ had different motives for aggressive pricing in the past. The question now is whether Toshiba will allow that to happen again. OCZ has a long history of aggressive pricing the company even pushed prices down when it had a superior product. The only avenue to make up the difference is aggressive pricing, and OCZ did not accomplish that with the RD400. The products can match Samsung in corner cases but fail to match it in others. The company is working hard on its successor BiCS 2, but from this point forward, every product cycle without 3D just falls farther behind what Samsung has already delivered. ![]() Toshiba missed the mark with the first version of 3D flash called BiCS. Samsung made a leap that is paying off while the other NAND flash manufacturers continued to walk to 3D flash. But OCZ and parent company Toshiba made the same mistake Intel and Micron made with 3D flash. OCZ did an exceptional job with the tools available at this time. Overall, we like the OCZ RD400 SSDs but think the Samsung 950 Pro is a superior product when the price is this close. If flash endurance is a factor due to a heavy write workload, the chart above will add some clarity to an often-overlooked performance metric. If a user runs heavy performance tests, or expects to write a lot of data from a workstation-level application, they may exceed the endurance specifications before the warranty expires. Users should not have a problem over the five-year warranty period under normal use. The large 1TB model dropped 10 percent in the same amount of time. The OCZ SSD Utility software does a very good job of real-time wear reporting, and it indicated that we burned through 20 percent of the warrantied flash writes on the RD400 256 GB in three days. Our testing writes a tremendous amount of data to the SSD sample in a short amount of time. My cost is walking fifteen feet and 30 minutes of disk clone time. On the personal side, I do not write a lot of data in day-to-day use, and can pull a new drive off a shelf at any point. Normally I do not give endurance much thought because extensive tests have proven that warrantied endurance has little to do with the actual life of an SSD. I noticed how fast the OCZ endurance meter was ticked down during our testing.
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