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Re:HDD Shipments Down 20% in Q1 2016, Hit Multi-Year Low by cptskippy on Friday May 13, 2016 @11:35AM (#11690991)
I had corruption issues with an OCZ drive on a machine with unstable power. Since adding a UPS the drive has been rock solid.
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Re:HDD Shipments Down 20% in Q1 2016, Hit Multi-Year Low by kabdib on Friday May 13, 2016 @11:51AM (#11691087)
We had corruption / sudden death issues with OCZ even on machines with redundant power supplies. I do not recommend them.
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Re:HDD Shipments Down 20% in Q1 2016, Hit Multi-Year Low by rincebrain on Saturday May 14, 2016 @06:06PM (#11698267)
My "favorite" were the OCZ Vertex 1 drives which almost certainly had issues with the firmware eating paste and overwriting some internal metadata - periodically the drives would start throwing read/write errors on swathes of LBAs, and the only way to mitigate this would be to throw the jumper on to put the drive in "recovery" mode and do a destructive firmware reflash that blew away all the contents.

And then it would work perfectly well again...for a while.

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