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17 Feb, 2009

The OCZ SSD syndrome

Posted by: admin In: Hardware

It’s a shame that all the OCZ disks are haunted by what I like to call the “OCZ SSD syndrome” which is a ridiculous low number of write operations per second. The first disk to be plagued by this problem was the OCZ Core disk. Today I read a review of their Apex model and it seems to suffer from the same problem.

I can’t believe that they’re still releasing disks with this problem! It has to affect their reputation in a very negative way!? I’m curious to read reviews of their new Vertex series. They’re supposed to have 32-64MB on board cache that should remove some of the iops problems.

Guess it’s just left to hope that we’ll see cheap SSDs without iops problems soon!

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1 Response to "The OCZ SSD syndrome"

1 | Hugh

April 2nd, 2009 at 21:14

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It’s not just OCZ; it’s almost all the SSD manufacturers. I personally have an OCZ Core V2, which has serious random write issues that can be barely addressed by tweaking settings and creating a ramdisk for application caching.

I found this review (http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531) very enlightening. If you’re still using an older OCZ core though, I found this blog post (http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/09/04/four-tweaks-for-using-linux-with-solid-state-drives/) very helpful for making Ubuntu bearable to use.

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