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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The SSD Megathread - Don't buy OCZ/Toshiba, Kingston, or Crucial drives, read the OP
 
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Srebrenica Surprise
Aug 23, 2008

"L-O-V-E's just another word I never learned to pronounce."

Goober Peas posted:

The OCZ DDR3 RAM in my laptop lasted all of 9 months before it poo poo the bed last. I'm not an overclock-er at all. I don't hold them in high regard.
Their DDR2 was all overvolted to hell too. Nobody should be praising them for selling 85% of their lineup at 2.2V just to get some slightly tighter timings (or to get those piece of poo poo modules to run without errors :lol:) at twice the price as competitors at the lowest point of DDR2's price just because by OCZ's standards that was a fantastic run. Companies will do that now with 1.65 vs 1.5 with 9-9-9-24 instead of 10-10-10-27 or whatever or 1333 vs 1600, but 1.65V isn't enough to burn your hand when you try swapping out the sticks (with heat spreaders!) or gently caress up the memory controller every third boot. It was clear they were rummaging around in the bottom of the bin and I wouldn't be surprised if the lower voltage tolerances in DDR3 doomed this strategy to the point where they pulled out.

Srebrenica Surprise fucked around with this message at 00:33 on May 26, 2012

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Srebrenica Surprise
Aug 23, 2008

"L-O-V-E's just another word I never learned to pronounce."
It looks like I'm getting a 120GB OCZ drive for free (even then I'm tempted to set it on fire, gently caress OCZ), and my gameplan was to update the firmware immediately and then use it for caching but I have a P67 board so that looks like a no-go.

Plan B I guess is to run frequent backups - I was thinking possibly to the point where anything I installed to the SSD would be mirrored on the HDD in software at install time, but I'm sure that would be annoyingly slow. I guess I could also dump a whole disk image every night at like 4AM but that also seems like it would be slow and take up more space than I might use since all that's going on it is probably a few Steam games and frequently used applications I use for game development work. What's the recommended incremental backup solution, then? Norton Ghost? I'm tempted to just set up symlinks for anything applications/games save locally and not to AppData, but it would be nice not to have to gently caress around in the command prompt.

Srebrenica Surprise fucked around with this message at 05:26 on Oct 9, 2012

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Srebrenica Surprise
Aug 23, 2008

"L-O-V-E's just another word I never learned to pronounce."

Ninja Rope posted:

Or just sell it?
I'd rather have it than forty bucks on SA-Mart and fifty after fees and shipping on eBay. Even if it fails and I have to send it back, it's worth more than that as long as it's properly managed and I'm not dumb enough to put important data on it I have to salvage. It's used already anyway, so if I decide to get rid of it it's probably not going to depreciate considerably.

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