OCZ Vertex Plus 2.5 inch SATA II 120GB Solid State Drive - £50.99 @ Amazon

dcx_badass

Sold out as I was adding to basket.

Tip: enable '1-click order'

You then have 30 minutes to decide whether or not to cancel

This drive comes with a 3year warranty.
If it fails you will get a new one, and chances are as the months pass by you will end up with a newer model as this is phased out.

All my important docs are backed up daily to external drive and wuala cloud backup, so I am not overly worried.
Installing OS and core apps does not take huge amount of time.
I have just installed mine, and will see how it goes.

I installed mine 3 days ago after putting new firmware on it. Been fine up to now. Win7 was easy to install on it.

Picked it up when it was £58 the other week. Sooo much faster than my old normal drive.

ebuyer.com/280…60g

Been on Ebuyer for the same price.

Clisig

… http://www.ebuyer.com/280120-ocz-60gb-vertex-plus-ssd-2-5-sata-ii-read-185mb-s-write-oczssd2-1vtxpl60gBeen on Ebuyer for the same price.Read lessRead more

Same price for half the capacity, shows what a good buy this is.

cheap for a ssd ,but a slow unreliable drive,im waiting for the m4 to get to this price,

Not a great drive by SSD standards, but at that price it's hard to fault it.

Max Read: up to 250 MB/s Max Write: up to 160 MB/s Random Write 4k … Max Read: up to 250 MB/s Max Write: up to 160 MB/s Random Write 4k (Aligned): 4,800 IOPSRead lessRead more

Nice, cheap from a step-up from a mechanical drive.

I am lol but I still ordered can always send it back to Amazon within a year if it messes up. thanks op

ps must upgrade the firmware to 3.55
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Thanks OP, heat added.
It might not be the best SSD but as long as its fit for purpose then its a great deal.
If not its going back.

ordered, going to put this in my back up laptop, see how it goes, if i like ill buy a better one for my main lappy

Ordered one but have now cancelled it due to the vast amount of bad reviews out there. Seems there are many who are happy with it but just as many who are unhappy and knowing my luck............

Wouldn't want to put it in my main PC's (M4's for those) due to reliability issues but ordered for laptop, will just clone the HDD and swap it back if it fails.

I'm still using two gen 1 Indilinx SSDs like this one and they are amazing compared to hard disks. Never had a problem with my Vertex and it's been in my machine for nearly two years.

Great price and with regular backups will be well worth it. Ordered. Thanks.

Ordered the last one - will see how it performs. Seems its OK with the latest firmware but I mainly want it for scratch and cache files for image/video editing.

Good price for something to do a it of experimenting with - heat added
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Noj

Ordered one but have now cancelled it due to the vast amount of bad … Ordered one but have now cancelled it due to the vast amount of bad reviews out there. Seems there are many who are happy with it but just as many who are unhappy and knowing my luck............ Read lessRead more

main thing with alot of reviews, who posts a good review? I for one, if something fails or annoys me i am more likely to review it, but if somethings great with no issues, i probably wouldnt! Could be hundreds or thousands of happy people with this drive...

hot, i paid 130 quid for a vertex 1 120gb. this is hot!

Now £87.72, expired

price gone back up??

Price back up to normal now

sellsmart123

main thing with alot of reviews, who posts a good review? I for one, if … main thing with alot of reviews, who posts a good review? I for one, if something fails or annoys me i am more likely to review it, but if somethings great with no issues, i probably wouldnt! Could be hundreds or thousands of happy people with this drive...Read lessRead more

Totally agree but as I said with my luck........... last 6 months have not been good

All sold out from Amazon

All gone, glad I got my order in when I did.. Have some heat.

will this work on my pc?

General Information
Drive Controller: Serial ATA 3Gb/s
Drive Model: Seagate ST3250820AS
Drive Revision: 3.ADG
Drive Capacity: 238,418 MBytes (250 GB)

bcham

cheap for a ssd ,but a slow unreliable drive,im waiting for the m4 to get … cheap for a ssd ,but a slow unreliable drive,im waiting for the m4 to get to this price,Read lessRead more

People keep saying unreliable, i've had it for 6 months now, you just need to upgrade the firmware straight away and you won't have any problems with the drive. also if you're limited to sata 2 it's not a bad buy, especially for this price.

Managed to get in before they all sold out, thanks OP!

sellsmart123

main thing with alot of reviews, who posts a good review? I for one, if … main thing with alot of reviews, who posts a good review? I for one, if something fails or annoys me i am more likely to review it, but if somethings great with no issues, i probably wouldnt! Could be hundreds or thousands of happy people with this drive...Read lessRead more

amazon.co.uk/Int…8-1

amazon.co.uk/Cru…1-2

I myself have written several good reviews.
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mtc1

Same price for half the capacity, shows what a good buy this is.

Wtf!!!! it was a 120GB? blind my eyes I should order one.

Oh man missed on on this deal.. would of bought one of these as a cache drive for editing.

Cold from me full price and bad drive.

enough ssd deals already man.

Damn it, i checked this morning for SSD deals and nothing, come back a few hours later and theres and expired deal

Would someone mind posting their read/writes speeds?

According to the website:

Max Read: up to 250 MB/s
Max Write: up to 160 MB/s
Random Write 4k (Aligned): 4,800 IOPS

mumbojumbo

It's compatively slow. You can get the 120GB Agility 3 from Scan for £25 … It's compatively slow. You can get the 120GB Agility 3 from Scan for £25 moreRead lessRead more

which is half as much again !!!

Mine is on its way, will see if any of the problems others have reported affect me. Its going to depend on the rest of your hardware and whether you have the right firmware for it. Its wait and see for the moment

robot1000

Would someone mind posting their read/writes speeds?According to the … Would someone mind posting their read/writes speeds?According to the website: Max Read: up to 250 MB/sMax Write: up to 160 MB/sRandom Write 4k (Aligned): 4,800 IOPSRead lessRead more

Here you go!

missed like always

This is current speed with a 750GB 7200RPM HDD

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CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 117.593 MB/s
Sequential Write : 113.519 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 37.855 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 54.881 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.435 MB/s [ 106.2 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 1.011 MB/s [ 246.9 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 0.990 MB/s [ 241.7 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 1.008 MB/s [ 246.1 IOPS]

Test : 1000 MB [C: 51.2% (125.7/245.5 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2012/05/13 15:08:27
OS : Windows 7 Home Premium Edition SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)

Would this SSD drive me much of an improvement?

robot1000

This is current speed with a 750GB 7200RPM … This is current speed with a 750GB 7200RPM HDD-----------------------------------------------------------------------CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/-----------------------------------------------------------------------* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s] Sequential Read : 117.593 MB/s Sequential Write : 113.519 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 37.855 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 54.881 MB/s Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.435 MB/s [ 106.2 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 1.011 MB/s [ 246.9 IOPS] Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 0.990 MB/s [ 241.7 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 1.008 MB/s [ 246.1 IOPS] Test : 1000 MB [C: 51.2% (125.7/245.5 GB)] (x5) Date : 2012/05/13 15:08:27 OS : Windows 7 Home Premium Edition SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)Would this SSD drive me much of an improvement?Read lessRead more

yes Robot it would just keep Windows on the ssd and data on the hard disk and you be good to go.
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