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  1. Guides and Important InFo

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    A place for all those guides and info to help you set up your SSD drive and Windows

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    The place to find all OCZ SSD new FW downloads. Plus other useful tools.

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  2. Sticky Thread Sticky: General Discussion 23.jan: SMART monitor application

    I have created a free windows application that uses S.M.A.R.T to monitor the health of OCZ SSD drives. The application is free and is written by me and has nothing to do with OCZ. It checks all your drives and queries the SMART status of any drives called anything OCZ (since these are the only...

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  3. Sticky Thread Sticky: Technical Discussion VERTEX/ AGILITY USERS WITH "LOST" DRIVES after 1.5 Update please read and post details in this thread

    If your VERTEX/Agility drive is no longer seen by the bios. Please post a reply to this thread with the size of the drive and the purchase date. No discussion, no questions, don't ask where this or that is, only the people who have "lost" a drive. I will delete ALL other posts. Thanks :)

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    Zodicus
    02-07-2010 10:46 PM Go to last post

  4. Sticky Thread Sticky: General Discussion Just what tweaks are needed in win7 with SSD?

    I see arguments and conflicting advice...so lets settle the debate here in this thread before i write a new guide. At this time when I test a system i do the following tweaks and NOTHING ELSE.. 1 I check the board is in AHCI mode, if no option is available there is nothing you can do. 2 I...

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    Ian
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  5. Sticky Thread Sticky: Support Question If you "Lost" your drive, What FW was on your drive before the 1.5 update

    Please list the FW that your drive was on when you flashed the 1.5 FW and "lost" the drive. Please also post what FW was on the drive when you bought/received it. Thank you. I only want a post in this thread if you can no longer use your drive.

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    falkclan
    02-06-2010 11:04 PM Go to last post

  6. Sticky Thread Sticky: Guide IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE FLASHING FW 1.5 I NEED THIS INFO

    Update January 26, 2010: I have revised the Autoexec.bat. It should display the FW updater on the screen for you. You then do not have to necessarily email me the file, just email me the results. Sending the updater.bat is still fine, though. This post does not Flash FW, this is a...

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    02-06-2010 02:53 PM Go to last post

  7. Sticky Thread Sticky: General Discussion What is Vertex Limited Edition?

    Just saw this: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-035-OC In short: 100GB, 270/250MBs Cannot wait for next generation of SSD's. Not that I really need to upgrade my Vertex 30GB. So any info on this? Superoverclocked Indilinx or what?

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    Zaxx
    02-05-2010 06:31 PM Go to last post

  8. Sticky Thread Sticky: General Discussion Those who had issues with bad flash FW1.5 please check in here if you RMA'd the drive with OCZ

    If you shipped your drive back to OCZ for a FW 1.5 reflash please post here when you get the drive back to: 1 Let us know if the drive is now OK now and what drive you sent back..such as Agility 120GB 2 If you have any issues 3 and turn around time. This way we keep track of drives and...

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    02-05-2010 02:30 PM Go to last post

  9. Sticky Thread Sticky: Guide I see some wanting to back flash drives to 1.3 when they were delivered with 1.4 or 1.42...read this to explain why this is VERY BAD

    Each new build of FW adds support for new Nand types, 1.42 adds support for some new 34nm nand just released, 1.4 has 34nm also where 1.3 does not. This means if you have a drive with 34nm Nand and you try to back flash with 1.10 you stand a chance of permanently bricking the drives...we can tell...

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    02-05-2010 01:49 AM Go to last post

  10. Sticky Thread Sticky: Guide ATTN THOSE WITH DRIVE FLASHING PROBLEMS

    If you have experienced errors or the inability to flash your drive. Please read the following. Errors you may have received (but not limited to just these): Invalid SSD DMA Invalid Device Firmware download fail! Firmware customer type fail! I want you to re-download the proper ISO for...

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    01-21-2010 06:35 AM Go to last post

  11. Sticky Thread Sticky: Guide remain calm, we know some of you will have issues flashing to 1.5

    All. We know some may have issues. Ryder has updated the USB method as some of you did not understand you can not just drop the contents of the ISO onto a USB drive and it work...please go back to post #2 in the download thread for 1.5 and re download the new files. Not all updaters are in...

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  12. Sticky Thread Sticky: Guide IF YOU CANNOT FLASH FW 1.4-1.41 Vertex/Agility/EX DRIVE, Updated, Post 71

    Update January 18, 2010 see post #71: http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showpost.php?p=478527&postcount=71 This post does not Flash FW, this is a troubleshooting method for those who cannot flash ONLY. This post only applies to the following conditions. For those of you who get any...

    Posted By RyderOCZ
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  13. Sticky Thread Sticky: General Discussion New forums added for guides/Info and FW downloads

    As you may have noticed I added 2 forums, both are read only. Link me to what guides you want adding to the Info forum and I will add them... The other forum is for FW releases, this again is read only and any discussion will take place in this forum in a separate thread. let me know what you...

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    richning
    12-28-2009 10:08 AM Go to last post

  14. Sticky Thread Sticky: Guide Advanced Forum Search with GOOGLE

    Did you know that you can use Google to search the forum and get a more refined result? The forum search is adequate most of the time but it does not provide the sophistication of Google for searching exact phrases and short words. CLICK HERE TO SEARCH THE FORUM WITH GOOGLE & then enter your...

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    04-10-2009 04:10 PM Go to last post

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  1. Result After 3 weeks with new FW 1.5

    After 3 weeks with the new 1.5 FW and NO SLOW DOWN this is the best FW by far my sons PC is used about 24/7 for school, gaming, surfing. I would see slow down after a few week of use on his system, Then after 2 months it would lose about 25% of it speed on paper but you could not tell it that bad...

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    rich1068
    Today 07:44 AM Go to last post

  2. General Discussion SSD drive in a AMD Based Notebook

    I have a HP dv6-2144nr laptop that I am thinking of putting a 60GB Agility SSD drive into. I just want to know if it will work since most HP BIOS are lock down with very few option that I can change manually. Thanks for your help and here are the laptop spec. CPU - AMD Turion 2 Dual-Core Mobile...

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    Buntz
    Today 07:39 AM Go to last post

  3. Technical Discussion How do I erase my SSD?

    How can I completely erase my SSD? as in remove all traces on it, I have a load of passwords and banking details on it and I'm selling it soon. and another question, how can I transfer my system partition over to a larger HDD from the SSD? Thanks

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    Today 07:39 AM Go to last post

  4. Support Question Formating\Wiping drives

    Well time has come for me to sell my SSDs, just not my thing right now, so what is the best way going about formatting the drives as if they were new? I was reading on sanitary erase but I dont have a 32 bit copy of windows, only 64 bit. Thanks

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    Today 07:38 AM Go to last post

  5. Technical Discussion Benchmark numbers really low now so is WEI

    When I first recieved the Agility 60 GB SSD couple of days ago, my score in AS SSD was 215for Read, and for Write, it was about 108. Now its substantially lower to 152 Read and 54 Write. My Windows Experience Score was 7.1 as well on the first day, and now its 6.6 for the SSD drive. I turned...

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    sgilmore62
    Today 07:25 AM Go to last post

  6. Support Question Vertex Speeds

    Hi, I have made all possible tweaks in Windows 7 (superfetch and prefetch disabled, ahci mode, indexing service disabled,..) also (ccleaner wipe free space many times each time twice to test speeds before and after,I have 5GB free space). I have a Vertex 30GB with 1.5 firmware. My speeds currently...

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    tuney
    Today 07:18 AM Go to last post

  7. Resolved how long does post uk to Netherlands take

    have sent my drive back for rma nearly a week later the online tracker still lists it not recieved is this normal how long did it take for other uk users here

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    wonkanoby
    Today 07:13 AM Go to last post

  8. Support Question Need & Ease of upgrading to 1.5 from 1.42 (RAID OS)

    I am currently running 30x4 Vertex in a Raid 0 hosting my OS (Win 7 x64). I've attached my current benchmarks having run the system non-stop since Nov '09. My questions: 1. Is it necessary to update to 1.5FW from 1.42 (i.e. what is there to gain?) 2. If it is necessary, can I do it without...

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    Today 07:12 AM Go to last post

  9. Support Question Rapid Performance Degradation of FW1.5 Agility in RAID

    I picked up 2 60gb Agility drives for Raid 0 and installed Win 7 Ultimate on it. These were brand new and came from the factory with 1.5 already installed. I did a few of the tweaks outlined in the forums: disabling the page file, setting up RAM disk, enabling write caching, disabling indexing,...

    Posted By nameloc
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    RyderOCZ
    Today 07:01 AM Go to last post

  10. General Discussion OCZ Vertex - Which firmware do I have?

    Here's the story so far: I've got a 120GB OCZ Vertex which I thought had firmware 1275 on it. In Device Manager and in my BIOS it lists it as "OCZ-VERTEX 1275". I've been trying both the 1.10 and 1.30 firmware updates (using both bootable USB keys and bootable CDs) to no avail. They always error...

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    Noobtweaker
    Today 06:41 AM Go to last post

  11. General Discussion LSI 9260-8i

    OHH yes....had to be held up late at work, but once i get home two things waiting on me #1 WIN7 on technet #2 THIS: http://i517.photobucket.com/albums/u332/paullie1/DSCF2913-1.jpg OH theres a lsi 6 GB/s in there somewheres on the desk lol gonna be installing it in my play rig......

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    anon4321
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  12. Support Question 60 GB Vertex Turbo Seriously Underperforming

    As the title states, my 60 gig turbo is running extremely slow, like 6.8 Mb\s write in the AS SSD benchmark. I recently switched back to Vista x64, and when I did I reformatted with a standard quick format. Prior to going back to Vista I was using Win 7, and did not seem to be having any problems...

    Posted By JamesOxford
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    Noobtweaker
    Today 05:16 AM Go to last post

  13. Support Question 60 GB Vertex Turbo Seriously Underperforming

    As the title states, my 60 gig turbo is running extremely slow, like 6.8 Mb\s write in the AS SSD benchmark. I recently switched back to Vista x64, and when I did I reformatted with a standard quick format. Prior to going back to Vista I was using Win 7, and did not seem to be having any problems...

    Posted By JamesOxford
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    Praz
    Today 04:51 AM Go to last post

  14. Support Question I CANT ENABLE TRIM!!!!

    Hey guys, I cant get TRIM to stay enabled. I used that indilinx tool that checks the stats of your SSD and under the firmware/trim heading it says 1.4fw (which is correct) and then it says TRIM: False Now i manually enabled TRIM on and i also used a script to enable TRIM but it doesnt work....

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    Noobtweaker
    Today 03:12 AM Go to last post

  15. Support Question Vertex 30GB v1.10 -> 1.5 Question

    Is 1.5 same enough to use now meaning we have a lot of successes? Also, what is the proper way for me to flash from 1.10? Can I just go straight to 1.5 or do I need to do something else? Also, do I need to run any tools after I got to 1.5? Thanks.

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    Noobtweaker
    Today 01:05 AM Go to last post

  16. Support Question Vertex Installation lag?

    Odd problem....This never happened to me during my XP Professional install, every since I switched over to Windows 7, my systems lags to death when I start installing large programs. Mostly present when installing some actual games. Was trying Aion a second ago, and my system was locking up big...

    Posted By Kamrooz
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    Noobtweaker
    Today 12:46 AM Go to last post

  17. Question Technical Discussion SSD in a RAID configuration as a non-member

    I have a Vertex 30GB SSD with firmware v1.5 as the boot drive on a system that also has two spindles setup as with RAID 0. The SSD is not a member of the RAID array. I'm running Win7 x64 Ultimate. In this configuration am I getting the benefits of TRIM on my SSD? If not I am curious about two...

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    Noobtweaker
    Today 12:40 AM Go to last post

  18. General Discussion Summit FW 19C discussion thread

    http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=66600 You can grab the files there or off ocz.com. Discuss the FW here, you need to flash it from a USB drive, it destroys all data on the drive so BACKUP first. I'm going to make a personal recommendation here, if you are using a...

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    Trailblazer
    Today 12:26 AM Go to last post

  19. Support Question Microsoft Driver vs Intel Driver

    Ok, so I think I've managed to navigate through this forum maze to successfully install my Vertex 120. No raid, just a straight install as C: drive. Drive was initially 1.30 FM, installed Win 7 64, did the recommeded tweaks, then flashed 1.40, noticed drop in performance, did the IOmeter fill...

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    Noobtweaker
    Yesterday 11:55 PM Go to last post

  20. Support Question Vertex got errors after flash to 1.5

    I have two 30gb vertex in raid 0 I flashed from 1.41 to 1.5. I did an sanitary erase, rebuild the raid and copied back an image with ghost. For a day everything was great. The speed was faster then ever. Then suddenly when I was copying some files to the ssd the operation failed. I did a reboot and...

    Posted By Gaccus
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    Noobtweaker
    Yesterday 11:48 PM Go to last post

  21. General Discussion Post Questions about TURBO Here

    This thread is for questions about updating your Turbo drive. ONLY questions about Turbo will be left here, all other posts will be deleted without notice or explanation. Thanks :)

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  22. Support Question OCZ Vertex 30GB x 2 in RAID 0 - Slower Bootup

    Hi guys, Just wondering if someone can share some insight with me. I recently bought a PC with 2 OCZ vertex 30gb's in Raid 0...the very first time i boot up my PC, Windows 7 64 bit booted up blazing fast. I somehow lost that speed as I installed some more stuff...so naturally i thought i...

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    Yesterday 10:58 PM Go to last post

  23. Smile Technical Discussion Vertex or Solid2?

    I'm going to get a pair of 30GB drives to run in RAID0 and am considering either the Vertex or Solid2. On paper the Vertex should be a good bit quicker, but I've seen benchmarks for the Solid2 that show it's quite fast, though the tests were for larger versions of the drive, 120GB I think. I...

    Posted By neneleben
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    Yesterday 10:27 PM Go to last post

  24. General Discussion Turbo Shipped w/1.5 fw

    Ordered Feb 3 from newegg.com http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v170/OS-Wiz/LaptopOCZVertexTurbo30GB1_5Firmware.jpg

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    _Dejan_
    Yesterday 10:16 PM Go to last post

  25. Support Question newbie question: trim ( where and how )

    new to OCZ SSD I heard about trim is good thing for SSD I search around the forum and found out trim = wiper.exe I download it (0502) and run it on windows, it only took 5 seconds to run but I saw some tutorial saying u have to log off and idle for 20 mins and such such...

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