OCZ agility 3 240gb ssd for $129 after $20 rebate, agility 4 256gb for $142 AR

my OCZ drive works great not sure why everyone is complaining about them.

Quote from bestco : Maybe he was being serious, I'm Shanghai now for a business trip, this place is packed with many foreigners from various western countries.

How are those Chinese women treating foreigners? Do they see them as walking ATM machines? I heard that there a a lot of hot women there with ugly Chinese guys because they have money.

uh...somebody realize the rebate offer number is not valid on ocz rebate site? they dont even list any offer available for 9/1~9/17 period.

Quote from booyaaa : uh...somebody realize the rebate offer number is not valid on ocz rebate site? they dont even list any offer available for 9/1~9/17 period.

nice catch, weird.

Deal dead.

Quote from poetuan : Well it's because of this company that u can afford other brand

Good point and well said

Quote from Tnyc : How are those Chinese women treating foreigners? Do they see them as walking ATM machines? I heard that there a a lot of hot women there with ugly Chinese guys because they have money.

Could be me but I think that goes for every country...most important part is happy ending lol

Quote from cconklin1 : It's been addressed to DEATH. CA people whine about New Egg and NY people whine about Amazon, Luckily soon CA will get to whine about BOTH! Whining about it is not going to change anything so get over it or MOVE...

I wont be buying anything from amazon anymore after they start charging taxes. Lots of retailers that don't charge tax still swimming in the sea...unless of course amazon lowers their prices to compensate for the taxes. That'd be reasonable since ~80% of the tax collected will go to the two towns where amazon is building warehouses, and they're giving most of it back to amazon.

Nice that we spent millions on legislation to suck money from amazon, and in the end the state will get nearly nothing and probably spend more money processing the taxes and pushing them around than they'll make.

Quote from poetuan : Well it's because of this company that u can afford other brand

So its because OCZ cant or wont validation test their products and have had persistent long term issues with every drive they've released, causing them to have to give them away when the product reviews start hitting 50+% one to three star ratings that resulted in our being able to afford other brands?

Geez, and I thought it was because their products stink, and because the costs to make these went down a lot. Whatta maroon I am!

I had the agility 3 240gb. It made my sons computer blue screen once a week or so, and do other weird crap until I fully powered down the machine. Dropped an m4 in there and no problems at all for a month.

The agility 4 is taking a beating in reviews and in the press. Its still getting new firmware every 2 weeks to fix serious issues. Its performance drops significantly once its more than 50% full, due to aggressive garbage collection.

These drives are worth what you're paying for them. Maybe less.

Quote from sklar : I wont be buying anything from amazon anymore after they start charging taxes. Lots of retailers that don't charge tax still swimming in the sea...unless of course amazon lowers their prices to compensate for the taxes. That'd be reasonable since ~80% of the tax collected will go to the two towns where amazon is building warehouses, and they're giving most of it back to amazon. Nice that we spent millions on legislation to suck money from amazon, and in the end the state will get nearly nothing and probably spend more money processing the taxes and pushing them around than they'll make. So its because OCZ cant or wont validation test their products and have had persistent long term issues with every drive they've released, causing them to have to give them away when the product reviews start hitting 50+% one to three star ratings that resulted in our being able to afford other brands? Geez, and I thought it was because their products stink, and because the costs to make these went down a lot. Whatta maroon I am! I had the agility 3 240gb. It made my sons computer blue screen once a week or so, and do other weird crap until I fully powered down the machine. Dropped an m4 in there and no problems at all for a month. The agility 4 is taking a beating in reviews and in the press. Its still getting new firmware every 2 weeks to fix serious issues. Its performance drops significantly once its more than 50% full, due to aggressive garbage collection. These drives are worth what you're paying for them. Maybe less.

I don't know if you're a moron or not, but that's your call. And to think that a company would lower a price and not pocket the profit even if production cost went down. Only competition can get price to drop in a more rapid rate. Don't be so naive. Why do you give out dated info? I'm pretty sure you've read that firmware 1.5 has fixed the 50% performance issue in the agility/vertex 4. Selective info does not help anyone in the forum. We're not politician here.

I just read the review on the Agility 4 on Anandtech here [anandtech.com] . This review compares the Agility 4 and it's big brother, the Vertex 4. Vertex 4 currently $210 on NE.

Of note.... "Without a real time compression engine, the Agility 4 is considerably slower than its counterpart equipped with synchronous NAND. It's clear OCZ is using its clever performance mode to hide a lot of the limitations of using asynchronous NAND. As you fill the drive the Agility 4's peak write performance drops considerably. While Agility 4 is priced competitively, it's not cheap enough to be worth it. Where the Agility 4 makes sense is when it's heavily discounted."

I would call the price after rebate listed in this thread "heavily discounted", but some might be tempted to wait for a sale on the Vertex.

Quote from poetuan : And to think that a company would lower a price and not pocket the profit even if production cost went down. Only competition can get price to drop in a more rapid rate.

Right, so last year and the year before when exactly every single company that makes SSD's now was also making them...and the price didn't go down very much...where was the competitive pressure? So mr. "I'm not a moron", explain why competition didn't make the prices go down as much as they did this year?

Quote : Don't be so naive. Why do you give out dated info? I'm pretty sure you've read that firmware 1.5 has fixed the 50% performance issue in the agility/vertex 4.

Then you'd be wrong. The performance/storage mode is intentional, and wont be 'fixed'. Its how the product works. When that 256GB drive has 128 on it, the performance will drop like a rock. It does with the current firmware, and it always will. Its how they squeeze the performance numbers to make benchmarks look better, but it sucks in practice in an operating machine.

See the post right after yours for more information.

Quote : Selective info does not help anyone in the forum. We're not politician here.

Neither does your incorrect information. Good thing you're not a politician, although they lie and distort the truth and get away with it, so maybe you'd do well.