I have two OCZ drives, a Vertex 60GB in a lightly-used Fit-PC2, and a Vertex 2 240GB that was in my ThinkPad W510. They both failed after a few months.
To their credit, OCZ did replace the drives promptly and without hassle. The 60GB replacement hasn't failed (albeit again under light use). The 240GB is on a Fedex truck for me today, so we will see on that one.
I put a 300GB Intel 320 in the ThinkPad about three months ago. No problems at all with it, but time will tell!
The Intel drive has better utility software - you can do a secure erase, for example. OCZ doesn't provide a utility like that. There are open source utilities and such, but it can be pretty chancy getting them to work (I never succeeded).
An aside: I kept the ThinkPad's hard drive and put it in an Ultrabay adapter replacing the optical drive. Large and less frequently accessed files (photo, video, downloads, etc.) go there. This gives lots of extra storage and should save wear on the SSD (not that it helped the OCZ any).
The hard drive is set to turn off after a few minutes even on AC power, so it sits idle most of the time. When I do need an optical drive I use a USB one, or I can swap the original drive back in.
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I have two OCZ drives, a Vertex 60GB in a lightly-used Fit-PC2, and a Vertex 2 240GB that was in my ThinkPad W510. They both failed after a few months.
To their credit, OCZ did replace the drives promptly and without hassle. The 60GB replacement hasn't failed (albeit again under light use). The 240GB is on a Fedex truck for me today, so we will see on that one.
I put a 300GB Intel 320 in the ThinkPad about three months ago. No problems at all with it, but time will tell!
The Intel drive has better utility software - you can do a secure erase, for example. OCZ doesn't provide a utility like that. There are open source utilities and such, but it can be pretty chancy getting them to work (I never succeeded).
An aside: I kept the ThinkPad's hard drive and put it in an Ultrabay adapter replacing the optical drive. Large and less frequently accessed files (photo, video, downloads, etc.) go there. This gives lots of extra storage and should save wear on the SSD (not that it helped the OCZ any).
The hard drive is set to turn off after a few minutes even on AC power, so it sits idle most of the time. When I do need an optical drive I use a USB one, or I can swap the original drive back in.