OCZ Agility 2 OCZSSD3-2AGT180G 3.5" 180GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

Pros: I bought in the unit in March 2011 and installed on my Dell Workstation. I was totally satisfied with the speed of my video editing applications.

Cons: Well, here we are in January 2013 and with no warning, the drive just died. I tried putting the drive on different SATA connectors on the motherboard and on another computer with no luck. It is dead, dead, dead and I'm having to spend a lot of time re-installing Windows 7 and applications on a new hard drive.

Pros: Good Price, Very low heat and power consumption, Fast, Reliable.

Cons: None so far.

Other Thoughts: Most other SSDs that I've dealt with have hard errors from time to time, or problems with data corruption at sustained high-speed use. This drive has never had a hard error, and I measured it's through-put as about 95% of rated maximum. Great little drive. It also has built in TRIM, which saves time on drive operations.

Pros: Fast, when works

Cons: This drive has a tendency to fail. As soon as data gets corrupted, the drive -- when it reads that location -- chokes, and the drive loses all contact with the PC. You have to go into BIOS to get it back! This is an annoyance when the drive is a extra storage. This is catastrophic when it is your boot drive. Once this happens, there is nothing for it. You can sometimes copy data file by file, sometimes not. After I secure erased the drive (per OCZ support) it worked for awhile. I had to rebuild Windows from scratch, but I didn't lose anything important. Second time it has crashed with the same problem, I'm sending it back to OCZ. I can't keep messing with it. I need my system to work.

Other Thoughts: I've read that sleep mode can cause problems, or power outages, or really anything that makes the ssd lose power for a millisecond. Sorry, but in my opinion, its not ready for prime time if you can't handle the little stuff.

Pros: Boots and loads stuff uberfast!

Cons: Price SSD's are still way pricey for the size

Pros: Very fast drive at a good price. I was happy until crash time.

Cons: Got the nasty awake-from-sleep BSOD after about six months. Drive was completely dead. So, I needed to pay for shipping for the drive, and it's been sitting at OCZ since 12/07 (three weeks) with no status update. I was hoping for much better service. Definitely will not buy OCZ again.

Manufacturer Response:

We are very sorry for the delay. Please call us at (408) 733-8400, ext 406 so we can look into and provide you with an update on your RMA. We care about our customers and are here to help. Thank you

Pros: It was fast when it was working. I bought this drive last March and it has been great.

Cons: Died about 3 weeks ago. I walked it to my office, I had been using the computer earlier, and the hard drive was dead. I wasn't even using the computer when it died. When I bought this drive, it had a lot of good reviews and that was the main reason I choose this drive. Now, most of the reviews are bad and for good reason. Why does OCZ sell junk like this?

Other Thoughts: Buy Plextor or Samsung unless you enjoy sending your dead drive back to OCZ

Pros: Nothing pro about it.

Cons: Horrible. Died in a month. OCZ Charged me for shipping to return it. Then charged me to cross ship a new one which took almost 2 weeks from some other country!

Other Thoughts: Go check out Samsung! They rock! Have not had any die yet!

Pros: Fast, this thing would boot my Win7 almost as fast as a Mac.

Cons: Died, this was my second drive and working an RMA for a third.

Other Thoughts: 1st drive arrived fast from Newegg, but the drive failed during the Win7 install and would not be recognized by the motherboard BIOS. Newegg was good about the RMA and sent me out a second drive. The second drive was working great for five months until it started failing (causing blue screen) and now will not be recognized by motherboard. Working the RMA with OCZ now and would love to get a different model or brand.

Manufacturer Response:

We aplogize for the difficulties. Our support staff will take good care of you. While less than 1% of our customers ever have issues, we care about our customers and work hard to insure that they will have a good experience with our products. Your replacement drive will be running our latest firmware, which will offer improved reliability on your system. If we can answer any questions, or assist with setup, please visit our support forums at the link below. Thank you

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Pros: good when it worked

Cons: bought this ssd on 2/20/2011 worked good till i had to redo my W7 on 9/23/2011. wont even read on the bios....

Pros: Incredibly fast. When it worked.

Cons: Expensive paper-weight.

These drives have a known -- but unfixed -- firmware issue. I won't lay this entirely at OCZ's feet, as it seems all SandForce drives have the issue.

My drive lasted 5 months, working fine. Suddenly, Windows 7 began locking up, and the drive would disappear from the BIOS until I power cycled. The issue occured each and every time I did anything data intensive... for instance every time I tried to copy data off the failing drive. I had to reinstall my whole OS and programs to my original HDD.

Other Thoughts: You should be forewarned. The drives are expensive. There is a lot of effort in just moving your OS over to them (which is, really, the point of buying a superfast drive). Paragon Migrate OS is a great tool for this. However, after all that work, you can expect them to fail. READ THE FORUMS AT THE MANUFACTURER. If you simply must have one. Don't make the mistake I did. Make sure you are making regular backups onto a drive you can boot from. (Not just images, but an actual bootable drive.) You'll need it... unless rebuilding Windows is your cup of tea.

Manufacturer Response:

We are very sorry for the difficulties. Although we find that only a small percentage of our total customers have similar issues, we take all problems seriously. We do have new firmware, and are hard at work to solve every customer concern brought to our attention. We do recommend that customers visit our support forums for more information at the link below. Thank you

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