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OCZ Technology 240 GB Agility 3 SSD- 3G SATA 6.0 Gb-s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive AGT3-25SAT3-240G
OCZ Technology 240 GB Agility 3 SSD- 3G SATA 6.0 Gb-s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive AGT3-25SAT3-240G
posted by abcnoonoi 1 day 6 minutes ago
OCZ Technology 120 GB Agility 3 SSD- 3G SATA 6.0 Gb-s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive AGT3-25SAT3-120G (Personal Computers) So I was looking to speed up my Macbook pro. I ended up getting this drive at a fairly good price. Now install was very easy a few screws and done...2 things I would mention out of the box this drive did not perform as expected frequent lockups freezes etc. The drive came with Firmware version 2.15. Most recent at this writing. Now. Things I needed to do to resolve this.To see if you are having my issue look at "about my mac -> more info -> serial-ata"Both speed should be 3gigabit.Vendor: NVidia Product: MCP79 AHCI Link Speed: 3 Gigabit Negotiated Link Speed: 1.5 Gigabit Description: AHCI Version 1.20 SupportedIf this is the case. Run a utility that boots a linux image and fix the speed that what not properly negotiated. Please note you must be on the most recent firmware as well. 2.15 at the time of this time. CD Image can be downloaded from OZC here. https://rapidshare /files/892490026/OCZ_MAC.zipOnce you are booted off the image you burned to CD. Click the icon called "MAC 1.5/3G" This will setup the drive to have the proper settings.Currently everything is working great for me here drive is fast and my OSX is now stable. I hope this helps someone else as well. .
Read more...Intel 320 Series 160 GB SATA 3.0 Gb-s 2.5-Inch Solid-State Drive
Intel 320 Series 160 GB SATA 3.0 Gb-s 2.5-Inch Solid-State Drive
posted by abcnoonoi 1 day 9 minutes ago
Intel 320 Series 160 GB SATA 3.0 Gb-s 2.5-Inch Solid-State Drive (Personal Computers) This SSD is extraordinary fast! If you use it, you're not going to get back to HDD. However,there are few things that you might want to be aware of. Currently some people have reported their Intel SSD suddenly loses all its storage capacity (remaining only 8MB), Intel has update the SSD firmware to version FW 0362 to fix this problem, and it will be fine then. Download site: [...] Instructions: 1. Always remember to back up your system first, I went through it smoothly, but who knows its going to crash or not. 2. Download the firmware and burn it into a CD or DVDrom. 3. Restart and boot it using CD or DVDrom. 4. Press "Y" for yes a couple times. 5. Wait for instructions to tell you to restart, and it'll be finish. Another thing to be mentioned is the warranty, this version of SSD has Intel's lifetime warranty (meaning that you could always change a new one if its broken), as long as your "Media Wearout Indicator" does not falls to "1". The Media wearout indicator is a indicator that tells you how many percent of the memory is OK. So if you're using torrent stuff like crazy, your wearout indicator might decrease fast, and if you break down at "1", it's basically out of Intel's warranty. So try to use it as a system drive so that you're not overloading it lots of write/erase process. Using it as a system drive is basically just reading, and it will not let the wearout indicator drop. You can monitor this number by using the Intel SSD toolbox. Download site: [...] .
Read more...OCZ Technology 120 GB Agility 3 SSD- 3G SATA 6.0 Gb-s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive AGT3-25SAT3-120G
OCZ Technology 120 GB Agility 3 SSD- 3G SATA 6.0 Gb-s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive AGT3-25SAT3-120G
posted by abcnoonoi 1 day 11 minutes ago
OCZ Technology 120 GB Agility 3 SSD- 3G SATA 6.0 Gb-s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive AGT3-25SAT3-120G (Personal Computers) I had a horrific time getting this drive to work as a replacement in my mid-2010 MacBook Pro (MC375LL/A), but ironically, I only experienced issues under Mac OS X (Snow Leopard and Lion). While the installers for Snow Leopard and Lion and their respective Disk Utility applications both failed to recognize the existence of my new hard drive altogether when booted directly from DVD, the installer for Windows 7 happily recognized the drive right from the get-go and threw itself onto it. I managed to get Mac OS X Lion installed on the new drive by popping my old hard drive into a USB enclosure, booting Mac OS X Lion from the old hard drive by holding down Option at power-up, and running the Mac OS X Lion installer from there, pointing it at the new drive; I never could get this method to work with Snow Leopard. Once up and running, however, it was all but reliable with constant beach-balling, even under little to no CPU load, that required a hard power-off to escape from each time it happened. All applicable Mac OS X software updates were installed, my MacBook has the latest firmware installed, and I confirmed that the new hard drive shipped with the latest firmware version (2.11 as of today) as well via System Information, to no avail. The performance gains when the drive *did* work were absolutely huge--16 seconds to boot from a completely powered-off MacBook to the Mac OS X Lion desktop--but without reliability, the theoretical performance gains are overshadowed by constant frustration. Sadly, I'll be returning the drive to Amazon. .
Read more...Corsair Force GT 240 GB SATA III/6G SATA 6.0 Gb-s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive
Corsair Force GT 240 GB SATA III/6G SATA 6.0 Gb-s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive
posted by abcnoonoi 1 day 14 minutes ago
Corsair Force GT 240 GB SATA III/6G SATA 6.0 Gb-s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive - CSSD-F240GBGT-BK (Personal Computers) I just finished installing the new Corsair Forc e GT 240 g Sata 3 drive...All I can say so far is WOW..I removed a 450 GB Veloci Raptor drive..I loved that drive but this is so much faster...I timed the boot from dead stop to windows with severaL START UP ITEMS RUNNING AND TOOK ABOUT 30 SECONDS. From start of boot up from drive it was about 10 seconds. Guess I am just hoping that I have no problems as time goes by.. Only adjustment I had to make was enabling AHCI in the Bios....Pretty simple adjustment. I ma using a new ASUS AS Rock A75M with 4 gigs of RAM..with AMD A8-3850 APU... Not a slouch...I have a system rating of 6.8 because I have an older Gforce GT 9800 graphics card...500 series is next..The drive scsore went from 5.4 to 7.4... Anyone going from a standrad hard drive 7200 RPM will see even more difference.. Hope it holds out.... Ok update.....Still working and still fast...Only thing I have noticed is I am losing Free Space daily...For no reason as I have not installed anything lately but each day it drops sometimes 50 megs at a time... Working with tech support and so far I can give their tech support a high rating as well... TRIM is enabled and I suppose their BGC (background garbage collection) is also functioning.... watch for future updates... .
Read more...SanDisk 120 GB Solid State Drive
SanDisk 120 GB Solid State Drive
posted by abcnoonoi 1 day 17 minutes ago
SanDisk 120 GB Solid State Drive (SDSSDH-120G-G25) (Personal Computers) I started a new gaming build for Diablo III, and decided I might as well take the plunge and pick up an SSD drive. This Drive had a decent size, speed, and price, so I went for it and I'm not disappointing.Installation was a breeze, my OS installed fine and I was on my way to ~20 sex boot times. I keep my OS, apps, and games on this drive with a 500GB WD for my media, music, etc.Games and apps load very quickly!If you're looking for a nice SSD for a good price to size ratio, this is your drive. SanDisk 120 GB Solid State Drive (SDSSDH-120G-G25) (Personal Computers) // var cv_mo168OSXU0IFWGBRollOverImg = new Image(); cv_mo168OSXU0IFWGBRollOverImg..
Read more...OCZ Technology 240 GB Vertex 3 SATA III 6.0 Gb/s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive VTX3-25SAT3-240G
OCZ Technology 240 GB Vertex 3 SATA III 6.0 Gb/s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive VTX3-25SAT3-240G
posted by abcnoonoi 1 day 20 minutes ago
OCZ 120 GB Vertex 3 SATA III 6.0 Gb-s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive VTX3-25SAT3-120G (Personal Computers) This is an amazing drive. Incredibly fast.... So fast that when my friend turned it on from a full shut down- they thought that it had only woken up from sleep mode and not actually booted all the way up. Incredible...Super fast installs of applications, my CAD and CS5 software work incredibly faster especially in reading multi GB Photoshop files from this drive... My CAD software is set to automatically back up the files every few minutes and on my old spinning hard disk drive whenever it would backup the file, the application would freeze for a moment while it did its thing...With this SSD....the automatic backups are seamless and completely transparent with ZERO interruption to my work.... BEFORE YOU INSTALL....READ!!!! IF YOU ARE INSTALLING THIS ON A NEW 2011 MACBOOK PRO with the newest generation of Intel Quad Core i5 or i7 processors DO NOT INSTALL THE TRIM ENABLER THAT HAS BEEN FLOATING AROUND ON THE INTERNET....this is a hack and not supported by Apple in ANY way. The trim enabler will cause your system to lock up momentarily or even completely. The drive has built in support for TRIM and really there is no major need for TRIM on the Mac OSX operating system anyway....Save hours of your time and just leave it be and it will be fantastic to use. If and when apple supports TRIM for these drives then go ahead....but without their official support you are asking for trouble. But again....LOVE THIS DRIVE....best upgrade.....also- check out an 8 GB Memory Upgrade from either Corsair or Crucial. Both companies offer great upgrades to these Macbook Pro 2011 hardwares and an 8GB upgrade actually boosts the native built in graphics chip from 384MB to 512MB.....this on all versions of the 2011 Macbook Pros that include the Intel Graphics 3000 chip. Offers plenty of space for system files, BIG applications, and a fair amount of extra memory to store files you currently are working with that you need fast access to...I.E. Photoshop files, CAD files, graphics- but the 120GB really isn't enough to store all your iTunes, iPhotos, etc...so look into OptiBay or an external hard drive if you like to keep EVERYTHING with you. .
Read more...Intel 320 Series 120 GB SATA 3.0 Gb-s 2.5-Inch Solid-State Drive
Intel 320 Series 120 GB SATA 3.0 Gb-s 2.5-Inch Solid-State Drive
posted by abcnoonoi 1 day 24 minutes ago
Intel 320 Series 160 GB SATA 3.0 Gb-s 2.5-Inch Solid-State Drive (Personal Computers) This SSD is extraordinary fast! If you use it, you're not going to get back to HDD. However,there are few things that you might want to be aware of. Currently some people have reported their Intel SSD suddenly loses all its storage capacity (remaining only 8MB), Intel has update the SSD firmware to version FW 0362 to fix this problem, and it will be fine then. Download site: [...] Instructions: 1. Always remember to back up your system first, I went through it smoothly, but who knows its going to crash or not. 2. Download the firmware and burn it into a CD or DVDrom. 3. Restart and boot it using CD or DVDrom. 4. Press "Y" for yes a couple times. 5. Wait for instructions to tell you to restart, and it'll be finish. Another thing to be mentioned is the warranty, this version of SSD has Intel's lifetime warranty (meaning that you could always change a new one if its broken), as long as your "Media Wearout Indicator" does not falls to "1". The Media wearout indicator is a indicator that tells you how many percent of the memory is OK. So if you're using torrent stuff like crazy, your wearout indicator might decrease fast, and if you break down at "1", it's basically out of Intel's warranty. So try to use it as a system drive so that you're not overloading it lots of write/erase process. Using it as a system drive is basically just reading, and it will not let the wearout indicator drop. You can monitor this number by using the Intel SSD toolbox. Download site: [...] .
Read more...OCZ 120 GB Vertex 3 SATA III 6.0 Gb-s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive VTX3-25SAT3-120G
OCZ 120 GB Vertex 3 SATA III 6.0 Gb-s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive VTX3-25SAT3-120G
posted by abcnoonoi 1 day 27 minutes ago
OCZ 120 GB Vertex 3 SATA III 6.0 Gb-s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive VTX3-25SAT3-120G (Personal Computers) As a user of OCZ Vertex 2 (40GB) SSD for 2 years, I blindingly chose to purchase the Vertex 3 for my new Intel Sandy Bridge build, as it appeared to be the fastest Sata 6 Gbps drive, and the reviews from tech websites gave me the impression of quality product. This was 4 months ago...After installing Windows 7 SP1, with all the latest patches and drivers for my Intel DZ68DB motherboard, I experienced random freezes where the mouse cursor would stop moving, and occasionally I would be greeted with a bluescreen. I tried replacing the components that are likely to cause the video output to freeze, such as RAM, video card, and USB devices. Nothing fixed my problem, until I cloned my installation to a different SSD. I then realized the "video freeze" and bluescreen issues were directly from my Vertex 3 SSD, so I searched OCZ forums and contacted OCZ support.OCZ support instructed me to update my already current BIOS and motherboard drivers, and recommended that I not use the Intel RST drivers (rather, I should use the Microsoft drivers). Their forums suggested updating to the latest firmware 2.11, which supposedly solves many bluescreen issues and other problems. After a two-week long back and forth conversation, the resolution was that sleep and hibernate modes were the root cause of my problems, and the fix was to not use sleep or hibernate, and that an RMA of the drive would not fix the issue (OCZ does not issue RMAs automatically, they must be approved internally). I was frustrated with this response, as I was now stuck with an SSD that could not even support power-saving modes that have been in computers for over 10 years.A week after my conversation with OCZ, my motherboard manufacturer released a BIOS update with a different "OROM" (Option ROM/Intel RAID ROM), and this partially fixed my sleep and hibernate issues, but my system still crashing when transitioning from sleep to hibernate (this is the default Windows 7 power setting), which was the last straw. After some weeks of research, I have concluded that the failures are caused by the SandForce SF-2200 series controller being incompatible with Intel power management features. Incidentally, this SandForce chip is also present in the recalled Corsair Force 3 120GB series, but is not in either the Intel 510 Series or the Crucial M4 Series, as both SSDs use a Marvell controller. It may be the case that the issue is not with SandForce, but the fact remains that Intel and Crucial SSDs are performing flawlessly in Intel and AMD motherboard, indicating that Marvell's controller is much better. I decided to purchase a Corsair M4 128GB SSD (it was $40 less than what I paid for the Vertex 3, and ~8GB larger). I copied my Win7 installation onto the new M4 SSD, and have been running without bluescreens, freezes, or any other trauma for two months. I can finally sleep or hibernate 3-5 times per day for weeks at a time (I only reboot when software updates force me to).For the casual computer user, I HIGHLY recommend AVOIDING this drive (and possibly all drives containing a SandForce controller), because if you have issues, OCZ forums will tell you to install drivers in a certain order, not install certain other drivers, and update the SSD firmware using their Linux updater, before which the drive should be completely erased, all the while ensuring that specific BIOS settings that may not be available are set. If you still are having problems, they will recommend trying different cables, SATA ports, and AHCI drivers, passing the burden onto the customer. You will be much happier spending more $ to buy an Intel 510 SSD, or spending less $ to buy a Corsair M4 128GB SSD, as happiness does not have a price! .
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