OCZ Deneva 2 C Series 240GB 6Gb/s Internal Solid State Drive $158 + S/H

Wrong category, it should be in drives instead of other.

Is this a good drive? Has anyone had any experience. I read somewhere it's essentially an Enterprise Caliber SSD, which is kind of a steal at this price.

Ocz is junk.

These are indeed OCZs enterprise product line, with 3 year warranty and enterprise support (including engineer support)

This is the async model, not the synchronous

http://www.oczenterprise.com/ssd-...5-mlc.html

Quote from Cozmo85 : Ocz is junk.

That's an opinion, much like any other. Yes, OCZ has had their problems, and even more than their fair share. However, other companies have gone through the same things with products. There's been times that nearly all the major players have had more than their share of problems with their products. Seagate, Western Digital, Hitachi, Kingston, PNY, all of them.

I have an OCZ SSD that I've been using for over 2 years now with absolutely 0 problems. Not one read error, write error, failure to boot, loss of data, anything.

Quote from Silvas : That's an opinion, much like any other. Yes, OCZ has had their problems, and even more than their fair share. However, other companies have gone through the same things with products. There's been times that nearly all the major players have had more than their share of problems with their products. Seagate, Western Digital, Hitachi, Kingston, PNY, all of them. I have an OCZ SSD that I've been using for over 2 years now with absolutely 0 problems. Not one read error, write error, failure to boot, loss of data, anything.

OCZ has had high failure rates.

if you want to be the experiment thats fine. These drives came out almost 2 years ago. Its not even one of their newer drives which may be safe.

Quote from Cozmo85 : OCZ has had high failure rates. if you want to be the experiment thats fine. These drives came out almost 2 years ago. Its not even one of their newer drives which may be safe.

Hey I'm not telling you to buy one. If you don't want to, that's your choice.
And I'm not an 'experiment', I've already been using one for years. Successfully. There's no experiment there. What I'm saying is that giving blanket statements such as OCZ is crap would be just like me saying
Seagate is crap
Western Digital is crap
Hitachi is crap
Kingston is crap
AMD/ATI is crap
Nvidia is crap

They have ALL had their periods of very high failure rate across one or more product lines, some of them lasting for years

The other thing to note is that yes, OCZ has been known for high failure rates in its ssds, but that has been its consumer line ssds. I have yet to see large amounts of failure reports on its enterprise products.

Google ocz ssd failure and you can find a billion and one reports of problems (though a good chunk of those were firmware issues rather than an actual hardware failure). Google ocz deneva 2 fail and you just don't see the same thing. Same thing with googling ocz enterprise ssd fail. There aren't any widespread reports of problems that you would typically see on reviews, forums (especially overclocking and enthusiast forums). That to me is a fair indicator that their enterprise line drives haven't been plagued by the same problems as their consumer line drives.

It's very easy to see a bunch of reports of problems and conclude that an entire company is crap, rather than considering what products and models are having the problems and realizing that the ones that don't aren't automatically garbage just because some products are. But, to each their own, blah blah blah

Is this a good deal? I've been holding out for an 840 pro to add to my i5 3570k with Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD3H. Also have a EVGA GTX 660 2gb super clocked video card. Should I still hold out? Not in a rush to finish the build, but I do want speed and reliability.

Anyone have experience with this drive?