OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G 2.5" 115GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) $39.49 AR + Free Shipping!

There are just TOO MANY "it died in 6 months reviews". And that's from reviews within the last couple weeks. I can't bite on this one.

Thanks! Got one... Couldn't resist at this price (~$0.40/GB with tax), even though it's an OCZ with some bad reviews. Would of rather preferred a Crucial, Samsung, or Intel SSD but those are still at $80+ for a 120/128GB one.

Running a Crucial M4 64GB SSD in my main computer for about 4 months now with no problems. Have about 40GB of free space with Windows XP.

Will be installing this one in a HTPC, so nothing important will be stores on it, only games and videos. Hopefully it will be reliable... At worst I'll use it as a scratch disk for encoding/compression.

Guess now waiting for <$0.25/GB (256GB+ size) SSDs to replace the drives in laptop/netbook.

GREAT price, I was going to buy, but way too many people saying drive failed in 6months to a year. Obviously a problem in the build.

I have two vertex 2 drives and they have both been working fine for over a year.

Looks to be OOS

Out of stock.

In for one. Thanks OP. I'll use it as a cache drive. The reviews make me a bit nervous using it as my OS drive.

Would have bit on this one, but OOS. Thanks anyway OP. Any idea if that coupon is usable on other OCZ drives?

Again, debated too long, and its OOS, I just wanted one to play with to get in the SSD realm, but somehow I don't feel so bad given OCZ has so much negative reviews, guess this explains why so much is on sale.

I see lots people wants to put an SSD in HTPC, I know SSD are faster then Mechanical drives but does it really matter that much in an true HTPC?, I would think long term reliability of an Mechanical drives would out weight the speed of an SSD, one of my machines mainly does streaming, with that much rewrites, does SSD make any sense?

Quote from wassabe : Again, debated too long, and its OOS, I just wanted one to play with to get in the SSD realm, but somehow I don't feel so bad given OCZ has so much negative reviews, guess this explains why so much is on sale. I see lots people wants to put an SSD in HTPC, I know SSD are faster then Mechanical drives but does it really matter that much in an true HTPC?, I would think long term reliability of an Mechanical drives would out weight the speed of an SSD, one of my machines mainly does streaming, with that much rewrites, does SSD make any sense?

I have a ssd in my htpc but it's only for the os and program files. Just to boot/wake up faster. Well worth the 60 bucks. Of course I use it for work too. All media files are on mechanical drive including dvr

Quote from wassabe : I see lots people wants to put an SSD in HTPC, I know SSD are faster then Mechanical drives but does it really matter that much in an true HTPC?, I would think long term reliability of an Mechanical drives would out weight the speed of an SSD, one of my machines mainly does streaming, with that much rewrites, does SSD make any sense?

For HTPC usage it's more about the silence, less heat, and power savings like ljstevens mentioned. The extra speed is just a nice bonus. Not everyone can/wants to turn their stereo up to 11 to drown out a noisy computer.

I'm currently running a laptop 2.5" 5400 rpm HD in the HTPC for those reasons. If you're doing true streaming, there shouldn't be any writing to the drive at all as it should be buffering to ram.

Videos are stored on a server, but I'll copy over the stuff I want to watch to the SSD and delete when finished. If extra storage/writing is needed, then add a 2.5/3.5" 5400 rpm HD. It should spin down and save power if you're not accessing it.

Another reason for buying SSD is that I'm protesting against the high prices on hard drives because of the floods. Drives are still way above what they cost at the same time last year. Still waiting for 2TB drives to drop to ~$60-70 before buying.

Quote from wassabe : I see lots people wants to put an SSD in HTPC, I know SSD are faster then Mechanical drives but does it really matter that much in an true HTPC?, I would think long term reliability of an Mechanical drives would out weight the speed of an SSD, one of my machines mainly does streaming, with that much rewrites, does SSD make any sense?

Yes ... imagine you wanting to watch a movie, turn on the computer and 30 seconds later you can start watching vs waiting for around 2 minutes to boot.

thanks

Quote from SleepyBum : For HTPC usage it's more about the silence, less heat, and power savings like ljstevens mentioned. The extra speed is just a nice bonus. Not everyone can/wants to turn their stereo up to 11 to drown out a noisy computer. I'm currently running a laptop 2.5" 5400 rpm HD in the HTPC for those reasons. If you're doing true streaming, there shouldn't be any writing to the drive at all as it should be buffering to ram. Videos are stored on a server, but I'll copy over the stuff I want to watch to the SSD and delete when finished. If extra storage/writing is needed, then add a 2.5/3.5" 5400 rpm HD. It should spin down and save power if you're not accessing it. Another reason for buying SSD is that I'm protesting against the high prices on hard drives because of the floods. Drives are still way above what they cost at the same time last year. Still waiting for 2TB drives to drop to ~$60-70 before buying.

I can see that in an laptop but I have a full blown mid tower for HTPC, its very quiet and heat is not an issue.

I know memory holds the data (buffer) when streaming but my Hdd is still constantly working, (the blinking light on my case), maybe the Hdd play the role of Data Swap? or maybe there is a setting that I have to tune?

Quote from b534202 : Yes ... imagine you wanting to watch a movie, turn on the computer and 30 seconds later you can start watching vs waiting for around 2 minutes to boot.

I do see the benefit of speed but my concern was reliability, I thought when streaming the Hdd will also be writing constantly, atleast its acting this way on all of my machines (the blinking Hdd light on my case)

The slowest machine I have boots in 45sec, the fastest is 35sec, I have them tuned, so no unnecessary programs are to load, so far the loading time is not bothering me, maybe I will test the SSD on my gaming machine which I can see the benefit of faster loading.

Just ordered an SSD, guess I will see what the difference is.