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I've created this new thread to focus discussion of wiper.sh in a single place. Please post all relevant discussion/questions here, if you can. wiper-2.0 and hdparm-9.25 are now available from sourceforge. This version is quicker than before, as it batches more free sectors into bigger TRIM...
I've made a small graphical tool which uses wiper.sh to trim disks. It's written in c++ and uses GTKmm. https://sourceforge.net/projects/disktrim/ To locate wiper.sh it uses a file located at "/etc/disktrim/wiper-location". Default value is "/sbin/wiper.sh". Data should by default be...
The main purpose behind this thread is to collect all the suggestions, the discussion and the benchmarks in one convenient Linux thread. :D This guide assumes your SSD is located at /dev/sda Parts of this guide could be used even though you're not planning to use Linux. See this post made by...
Hi Updated the OCZ Vertex inside my Mac Unibody using an ISO image but it should also work on normal PCs. I've described how I did it below: Step 1: Download the appropriate image below and burn to a CDROM. Step 2: (Mac) Boot into FreeDOS by holding down the 'C' key. (PC) Make sure the...
We have a forum specifically for downloads here: http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=242
Some of you have asked so I'll just collect the info here in a convenient place. But before we start, some points: We don't need Apple's bootcamp utility to install Windows. But it makes it very convenient. We don't need Apple's drivers but again it's a matter of convenience. In fact,...
Read the whole of this 1st post...that means all of this post before you download anything. Info on Agility files and Vertex EX files is towards the end of this post. ALSO NO JUMPER IS REQUIRED FOR THIS FIRMWARE UPDATE Regular Vertex and Vertex EX also AGILITY and Agility EX updater...
In this thread I'd like to show you how to set up an OCZ Vertex SSD in a Mac. I'll use a MacBook Pro (Model 1,1, built 2006, latest firmware) for my tests. System specs: Intel Core Duo 1.83GHz 2GB OCZ PC2-5300 SODIMM ATI Radeon Mobility X1600 OCZ Vertex 60GB (FW 1.30) Mac OS X 10.5.7...
As you know we have been working on a forum Wiki, the big issue for the forum staff has been we have had little time to add as many articles as we would have liked by now. So...I know some of you guys wanted to help; BUT with this being a manufacturer site we needed to have some control over...
Additional info has come to light which should help end users decide which mode is best for them to run the Vertex drive. This is based on power states and low power modes and what the drive actually does. As we know Vertex has no spinning parts, so spin down does not occur, BUT it does support...
1 Got a MAC and having sleep/resume beachball freezes...PLEASE take part in this POLL Tony 2 OCZ Vertex 120 and sleep cycling problems with MacOSX 10.5.6 (9G55)
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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...
So after I was able to get passed the frozen state, thanks to mlord and me&er for that, I'm now stuck in getting TRIM to work. Info about system: $ uname -r 2.6.33-020633rc6-generic $ cat /proc/mounts | grep ext4 /dev/disk/by-uuid/14ea52d1-6138-47b7-9405-a6499adcbd98 / ext4...
If this mystery has already been definitively solved in another thread, my apologies. But I have been researching this issue since July of last year and have only seen speculation about the cause/solution, no hard proof. The problem I'm speaking of is that many of the 'mid-2009' unibody...
Hello, i have buy a vertex turbo 120 gb. The drive came on firmware 1.0 I have put it in my macPro Nehalem 2009 at the place o the superdrive An an other hard drive i have installed windows 7 on bootcam. I have boot on windows 7 to do the update 1.0 to 1.5, see the instruction there : ...
I have a : Macbook Pro 13" model name: MacBookPro5,5 Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo 2,26Ghz Mac OS X 10.6 10A432 I just bought a OCZ Vertex 120GB , it seems to work fine when i plug it using a SATA USB docking station, but when I put it in my MacBook Pro harddrive slot, things gradually...
Hello, I have a Vaio W with a new ssd Solid 2 Series 30g. (firmware 1.5) I want to install Ubuntu 9.10 on it and i would like to know which procedure i should follow for to align it before the installation. I red about to use fdisk... but since im not very practical with ssd stuff i don't...
So I have updated the FW to 1.5. In OS X, how to make GC work? Need I logout and keep the computer running once in a while? Or just turn off the option for letting the hard disks sleep when possible? Or anything else I need to do?
Aside from the Intel 80GB MLC G2's, which are in a different size category & have better random r/w... Would I be correct in asserting that MLC SSD's based on the Indilinx controller, are currently the best "overall" performers at 30-40GB? Of course a controller alone does not make a good MLC...
Hello all, I have tired to research on the new OCZ Soild 2 series SSD but seems to have very little info on these drives on the internet so far. I am looking to put the 120GB version in the macbook pro substituting the intel G2 80GB (already full). Will it works in macbook pro? Is there any...
I have two 30GB Vertex SSDs that I want to put in raid 0 but they aren't recognized when I turn on raid in the bios. I'm trying to install Windows 7 from scratch. When raid is off both drives show up without fail. I also unplugged all other hard drives to see if that would help. What could I be...
Hey guys, i'm having troubles to instal the last FW 1.5 on my macbook pro late 2007. I'm on snow leopard, i have my SSD since like 3 or 4 months, it's an OCZ Vertex 120GB FW1.4 with two partitions, the boot camp one and the mac one. I followed the tutorial and downloaded the "1.5 FW Download for...
Is this safe to do? I read a thread in the windows section that say I need to run something under windows & then decide which way to proceed. Short of taking apart my wifes windows desktop, I have no other windows box available. My current "updating" machine is a lenvo ideapad s10-2 netbook...
I'm thinking about getting 8 Vertex 30GB SSD either for a VMWare ESXi System or UBUNTU 9.10 Solution to run multiple Virtual Machines. Now I know Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 does support Trim Support. However I really like to use ESXi or Ubuntu and not to loose performance over time. I...
In the step-by-step explanation regarding flashing to 1.5 you say the drive has to be in IDE mode and not AHCI. I suspect mine is in AHCI. http://users.telenet.be/sickbrain/Schermafbeelding%202010-02-04%20om%2017.36.25.png How can I switch it to IDE mode so I can proceed to upgrade the...
Hello, I've purchased a vertex 120 a while back and installed it in my mac pro. It came with FW 1.30. Everything worked well for a while until i started seeing strange things such as apps freezing and the os being unresponsive. When i would reboot the machine after this happened, the...
After going through a bad firmware upgrade because I did it out of sequence, I'm wondering... why it is that the firmware upgrades can't be bundled to take any of the existing firmware versions up to 1.5. i.e. a 'combo update' i.e. a firmware that will upgrade a 1275 -> 1.10 -> 1.3 -> 1.4 -> 1.5...
A big 'thank you' to OCZ for working quite quickly and processing my RMA for my two bricked Vertex 120s (bad f/w upgrade sequence from 1.1-1.5 and 1.3-1.5). Received fresh 120s that were at firmware 1.4 and after crossing my fingers, successfully managed to upgrade them to 1.5 on a MacPro by...
Do I have to make an ISO CD and boot of it to check? -- Also what is the best/latest FW I should be using. 1.41 or 1.5? 1.41 I believe is better suited to Mac as its the GC version. I have received a standard (ie non Mac Vertex edition) Vertex SSD, so assume its probably got FW1.4 installed,...
I had a Vertex 120G (oczssd2-1vtx120g, SN 011400904004844) as the boot drive in my MacPro. It had the 1.41 firmware on it, and worked more or less ok but I had frequent filesystem corruptions; since they were only on the SSD and never on "real" drives I figured I'd check if there was a new FW, and...
I realize that 1.41 and 1.42 were nearly functionally identicaly. But nearly in digital terms is like a turd in a punch bowl. So - what is the official stance on upgrading from 1.41? Do we use the same updater that is labeled 1.42 to 1.5? Please advise as I don't want to do this twice nor...
I have a 120Gb Vertex 1.5fw in a Macbook Pro late 2006 model. Have had no problems whatsoever with the drive until now. I just installed a few security updates, bonjour updates, airport and java updates that I noticed in Software Update but the Vertex has gone to hell. EVERYTHING has slowed to a...
Hello all, This post is for people using Linux that would like to upgrade their firmware to the last 1.4 version. We will try to answer questions, with the help of the OCZ community. Personally I have a Firmware version 1.10 \$ sudo hdparm -I /dev/sda /dev/sda: ATA device, with...
I have a Summit 60GB and was considering using it for a Untangle Firewall Server. I am a Unix newbie, and have no clue about aligning the partition; if it is even necessary, etc. Does anyone have any experience using untangle with a SSD? Does/Will it impact performance much?
We have all the Vista and XP tweaks documented - but I'm now playing with OSX and my wife has a brand new Mac Book. How do we tune OSX for SSDs? Shouldn't we have a sticky thread for OSX too? (God I hope there isn't one already but I didn't see it if it exists...)
Oké, so here is my issue: this weekend I have dedicated to cleaning and updating my drive and now my drive is stuck in the ATA-Security State SEC2 (a.k.a. Frozen, not enabled, not locked) and I can't get it back to SEC1 (not frozen, not enabled, not locked) like before this week-end... Small...
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