Crucial C300 64Gb SSD

[mac_shinobi]

Thats where a 3 year warranty comes into use

 

True - think OWC have made mine 5 years ( I have the owc 6g 240gb for home use but cant use it just yet as have to wait until pay day to buy a max upgrades drive sled, doh.

 

under specs tab at the bottom shows 5 years for warranty

 

They do a 120gb version 6G ( which is SATA 3 aka 6gbps ) so when you do upgrade your computers with SATA 3 at least they will keep up to speed. I think the C300 / real ssd only does about 300 mbps read / write where as the OWC does around the 500mbps read and write ( give or take a bit )

 

I was pressed between the OWC 6G or the OCZ vertex 3 ( either the normal or the max iops edition )

 

OWC OWCSSDMX6G240 240GB Mercury EXTREME Pro 6G SSD... in stock at OWC

 

OWC Mercury EXTREME Pro 6G SSD has 5-year warranty | Ubergizmo

 

 

Edited June 15, 2011 by mac_shinobi

[glennda]

True - think OWC have made mine 5 years ( I have the owc 6g 240gb for home use but cant use it just yet as have to wait until pay day to buy a max upgrades drive sled, doh.

 

under specs tab at the bottom shows 5 years for warranty

 

OWC OWCSSDMX6G240 240GB Mercury EXTREME Pro 6G SSD... in stock at OWC

 

OWC Mercury EXTREME Pro 6G SSD has 5-year warranty | Ubergizmo

 

This is from the Hardware Vendor who is putting them together - i might end up with a longer warranty on the components i havn't checked!

[Arthur]

I might end up with a longer warranty on the components I havn't checked!

It may be different if you are getting a local company to build the PCs, but when buying computers from the big OEMs (HP, Dell etc.), the individual components have exactly the same warranty as the computer itself (no more, no less). It doesn't matter if a particular SSD normally has a 5 year warranty, because if you buy the PC with a 1 year warranty that's all you are getting for the SSD too.

[mac_shinobi]

It may be different if you are getting a local company to build the PCs, but when buying computers from the big OEMs (HP, Dell etc.), the individual components have exactly the same warranty as the computer itself (no more, no less). It doesn't matter if a particular SSD normally has a 5 year warranty, because if you buy the PC with a 1 year warranty that's all you are getting for the SSD too.

 

Even if they used an OCZ or OWC ssd that had 3 or 5 years and you went to said manufacturer ie ocz or owc ??

[glennda]

It may be different if you are getting a local company to build the PCs, but when buying computers from the big OEMs (HP, Dell etc.), the individual components have exactly the same warranty as the computer itself (no more, no less). It doesn't matter if a particular SSD normally has a 5 year warranty, because if you buy the PC with a 1 year warranty that's all you are getting for the SSD too.

 

hmm true - i've never really looked into it. But TBH from the link above it said most of them failed within 1 year - meaning that actually they would completely useless.

[Arthur]

Even if they used an OCZ or OWC ssd that had 3 or 5 years and you went to said manufacturer i.e ocz or owc??

When you buy a PC, the warranty is with the manufacturer of the computer, not the companies who make the individual components. e.g. if you buy a MacBook Pro + SSD from Apple, you would get Apple to replace the SSD if it was faulty, not Samsung/Toshiba etc.

 

from the link above it said most of them failed within 1 year - meaning that actually they would completely useless.

The problem with that article is he doesn't put any of the failures into context. What operating system was his friend using, what were the SSDs being used for, did he have the same issues with HDDs? For all we know it could be a faulty PSU killing the SSDs.

[dayzd]

The problem with that article is he doesn't put any of the failures into context. What operating system was his friend using, what were the SSDs being used for, did he have the same issues with HDDs? For all we know it could be a faulty PSU killing the SSDs.

From what I've read elsewhere on the blog that link came from, he and his team typically use Windows 7 (with Trim) and do lots of programming/development. I do expect those SSDs took quite a hammering day to day...