It's pretty well documented that OCZ aren't very reliable.

rtucker55


I have been using the Samsung 830's without issue, so far.

That's what the new Macbook Pro's (retina) ship with.

I'm not totally impressed with my SSD.  I recently built two PC's, one primarily for Sonar, that has an SSD, and another as a backup and for other uses.  Both have Z77 chipset motherboards, and i7 CPU's.  The other PC has a hard drive only in it.  Other than a little faster boot up, I don't see much other difference.  On a benchmark test I would probably see a difference, but for my uses the difference is a wash.

If/when my OCZ Vertex 4 SSD dies, I'll just go with a hard drive only on the Sonar system.

Well if they are known to be unreliable, they shouldn't sell them. Microcenter says they haven't had a problem with them....

It's pretty well documented that OCZ aren't very reliable.

I have three OCZ SSD drives... all work fine.
The drive in question is the lower end OCZ... which really isn't much faster than the fastest conventional HDs.

Other than a little faster boot up, I don't see much other difference. 

FWIW, That's why I don't choose to use SSD for a boot drive.
Not a huge difference.


SSD really shines when you need huge amount of disk-streaming polyphony (running Hollywood Strings or LA Scoring Strings aka LASS)

Well if they are known to be unreliable, they shouldn't sell them. Microcenter says they haven't had a problem with them....

FWIW, Microcenter's typical custom is NOT a DAW user.
It's a typical gamer or home user...
I'm in the local Microcenter on a daily basis.  Great guys... but they know nothing about DAWs.

"timidi"

It's pretty well documented that OCZ aren't very reliable.

 Care to elaborate on your sources? Anything on their 3rd and 4th generation SSDs (Vertex 3 / Vertex 4)? 

Alegria

"timidi"

It's pretty well documented that OCZ aren't very reliable.

Care to elaborate on your sources? Anything on their 3rd and 4th generation SSDs (Vertex 3 / Vertex 4)? 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227793



Not exactly a ringing endorsement. On the other hand the Samsung 830 series consistently gets five eggs .

I have been testing a small Crucial M4 SSD for the past couple of months.  It really helps tremendously with the couple of VSL libraries on it.