Buy.com has the OCZ Agility 4 AGT4-25SAT3-512G 512GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) for $300 - $20 rebate [Exp 10/15] = $280 with free shipping. Features up to 400 MB/s read and write speeds, Indilinx controller, and access latency as low as 0.02ms.
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Are these any good? Deos anybody Know? Why so much cheaper then the other brands. Considering putting a 512 in my laptop I just bought. The other ones are so much more expensive. Can anyone lend some advise? Thanks!
agility has had a very troubled history.
Good, no. 512GB that is a lot of data to lose to a crap SSD.
The company's stock opened down 42% yesterday. I have been watching all these "stock analyists/experts". They are making all kinds of projections based on all kinds of factors like manufacturing expenses, component costs, management, etc.
NONE of them know that the company is putting out crap and that is why it is suffering.
I pretty much ignore the experts because they have no clue at all about manufacturing consumer electronics... based on their guesstimations everything we buy except for overpriced apples products cost more to make than they sell for after the initial market introduction which is impossible.
Not a bad deal, but these Agility 4's aren't able to hide their write-delays from the cheaper async NAND they use. The older versions (2 and 3) that used SandForce controllers were able to do that thanks to the controller's write compression and likely coupled to SandForce doing some tuning on their part (one of their goals was to allow diverse and cheap NAND to be interfaced). So, that said, reliability shouldn't be a concern with this much flash and the current state of their firmware, though once you're under that midway point your performance is really going to dip with this drive.
I would stay away given the eventual performance as you fill the drive. Better to pay the little bit extra and get a Vertex 4/M4/830/840 whatever that's not going to penalize you for normal use.
OCZ has a pretty unjust reputation for being unreliable IMO. I've had no trouble with Vertex/Agility models from every generation except their second (which seemed to also be their worst, but it's hard to tell). Seems like a lot of it stems from putting too much burden on the user to keep their firmware current and configure their OS correctly. That and possibly not enough validation across different platform combinations. If you have Samsung's Magician software it can be useful for configuring the OS a bit (disabling the indexing service, etc.) on other SSDs; would be extra convenient if OCZ put the resources into software comparable to Samsungs for maintaining their SSDs (e not a Live CD).
Rant over.