On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Chris Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm testing my first net6501 with an OCZ Petrol SSD. Everything seemed OK, got > the OS installed, then I started getting checksum mismatches from rsync, then > I/O errors, and then the drive stopped working completely. I've used and deployed dozens of SSDs, the vast majority of them OCZ. In fact, the first SSD I ever bought was a Vertex 30GB, and it still lives today in a netbook, after doing the rounds in two or three other computers. OCZ SSDs are the best value proposition in consumer SSDs on the market in my estimation. That said, I purchased a 128GB Petrol to upgrade a client's laptop. Less than a week later the thing had secure-erased itself. I wasn't too bothered by it, after all, some percentage of anything is going to fail at some point, and I'm not one to judge a brand by a single failure. This all changed though when I went looking at the reviews of this particular drive. Seems I'm not the only one. http://www.newegg.ca/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&N=100006551&isNodeId=1&Description=ocz+petrol&x=12&y=11 I have continued to purchase and be satisfied with the OCZ SSDs, but I will not touch another Petrol until this issue is acknowledged and fixed. db _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
