OCZ Petrol PTL1-25SAT3-128G 128GB SATA III 6Gb/s 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive $79.99 AC AR Microcenter B&M

im an ocz hater. Used to buy their products but got burned too many times. I've never tried their SSDs, and i never will.

This SSD is awful, terrible product, reminds of a joke :

People are waiting in line in Russia in front of a store, someone screams " TOILET PAPER, THEY'VE DELIVERED TOILET PAPER!!!!", crowd goes HOOOORAH !!!!, store manager comes out and says, there is a problem, toilet paper is used, "BOOOOOH" goes the crowd, but it's free ad the manger "HOOOORAH!!! " goes the crowd.

Quote from seanleeforever : "Secure the product by using at least two inches of bubble wrap or foam. OCZ recommends shipping using a traceable courier, such as FedEx or UPS. OCZ will not be responsible for lost RMA packages. "

Yep, every thread where paid returns are mentioned, some nimrod always pops up and wants to send a warranty return in by the USPS and swears that nothing bad has or could ever happen. When someone can explain how the postman lost a directv box I gave him between my house and the post office (.5 mile), then I'll agree with that assessment. I also wouldnt put it past many outfits to not chuck or steal my untracked package or my wimpy usps delivery tracking. I had one of those once too, but no package. The USPS told me to check around in the bushes near my house for it...

Quote : my point: ship back defected product should be FREE. i shipped back numerous of failed component in the past, and my experience has been those who makes solid products provide best after sale support. and those who produce horrible products are the one gives you most headache.

Amen brother. If you sold me a bad one, you send me a good one! The trick these days seems to be slap a rebate on a crappy product, then when you cut the packaging up for the rebate you cant return it. Then they put a shipping barrier on the return.

Quote : and i am almost certain i will be returning the Vetex 2 in the up coming future... i get it OCZ.. they just want to wear you out until you are out of the warranty period, or just give up RMA.

Here's my problem with them. They screwed up my last two builds. I put a vertex plus in a system last year and spent a week trying to figure out why the disk kept chkdsking. My most recent build would spontaneously reboot about once a day and after spending a week fiddling with it, replacing the OCZ power supply fixed it.

They wanted me to pay $12 to ship the vertex plus back to them because they said it was defective, when they KNEW their engineering team was working on a firmware fix. I just put it on the shelf for 3 months and then updated it and its working.

Not much I can do about the power supply other than decide whether to pay ~15+ to mail this heavy honker back to them and get a refurb back I dont trust or just throw it out.

Lastly, do not buy this product. Besides the sandforce/firmware issues its poorly made and has a high DOA and failure rate that are not firmware related. There is a reason why these keep getting sold for nearly half the price of any other bargain SSD.

It is rare, but Planar does it, for example. They send a new monitor, and you use that box to pack the old one and send it back with their prepaid label.

Quote from anothauserhere : I do agree with you that a rma should be free, but I don't know of any company that offers that unless you buy a additional warranty.

Quote from sklar : Yep, every thread where paid returns are mentioned, some nimrod always pops up and wants to send a warranty return in by the USPS and swears that nothing bad has or could ever happen.

And UPS never chucks a package over a fence.

Fact is no carrier can guarantee that your package will arrive intact. That's why there's insurance. Hate on USPS all you want, but for small packages, USPS typically delivers faster and cheaper. FCM/Priority Mail = 3 days across the US. For the same price you just might be able to afford UPS or FedEx Ground. Will there be an incompetent mailman at the end of the route? Maybe. However no packages, rebates, tax returns, anything money-sensitive that I ever sent out via USPS has gotten lost.

Quote from BGRT : And UPS never chucks a package over a fence. Fact is no carrier can guarantee that your package will arrive intact. That's why there's insurance. Hate on USPS all you want, but for small packages, USPS typically delivers faster and cheaper. FCM/Priority Mail = 3 days across the US. For the same price you just might be able to afford UPS or FedEx Ground. Will there be an incompetent mailman at the end of the route? Maybe. However no packages, rebates, tax returns, anything money-sensitive that I ever sent out via USPS has gotten lost.

there are cheaper way to ship stuff, we get the point. no need to stress it. heck, if you living in Norcal you might as well just drop it to OCZ, total shipping cost? your gas.

i'd like to say that i had bad experience with shipping to OCZ in the past. a 30 dollar part. i send using USPS with delivery confirmation (not tracking). USPS shows it is delivered, but OCZ refused and told me it was "untraceable" and denied the ticket even after i showed them the confirmation number. YMMY, but what i learned is that you need to follow exactly what they said in order to held them responsible. and if they said UPS/FedEx, you better do it. there is nothing to stop them saying your packet was not received.

let the shipping issue settle already. this is looking like argument between new car and used car.

Quote from seanleeforever : let's not arguing about the shipping. if you go by what OCZ said, it just happens to cost me 9.16 dollars with the cheapest UPS option. not to say you cannot get cheaper with untraceable USPS, but they can claim they never received the drive and you are out of however you had (which works out to be 260 dollars in my case, so i definitely wouldn't take cheap route here). what i found to be unacceptable is they would uses a cheaper product with known issue for replacement. reading newegg comments reveals number of folks had 2 or 3 replacement Vertex 2 died, some are DOA. in fact. if you sort by "most useful comment first" the entire first page are all 1/5 eggs. NO EXCEPTION. the fact that OCZ CS can go ahead and tell me "it has been fixed" and giving me no option but to accept a lower tier product is unacceptable. it is like saying your i7 computer has problems and they replace it with atom processor. for those who never had a problem with OCZ... seriously make backups. my OCZ never had a problem and i was on the same boat as you guys, and then, voila. cannot be detected by MB or by windows using external HDD. say good bye to your data.

They swapped my drive with the same model.

Quote from anothauserhere : I do agree with you that a rma should be free, but I don't know of any company that offers that unless you buy a additional warranty.

That's like asking a store to refund your gas that you spent when driving back. Besides, they pay for shipping the other way. When does a B&M store pay you gas money to go back home?