New FTL Firmware increases performance for Indilinx based drives

[bluestang]

Arowana is a totally different build, it is nand specific and i will say 50nm sammy is NOT supported, so all you guys who flashed to Turbo you have all we can give you.

This release will not please everyone I am sure, we are doing what we can to speed up all the drives with all the nand BUT there are limits as to what can be done set by the nand.

So my 64GB Crucial M225's are probably not compatible then?

[Computurd]

so when is this available?

[Tomasis]

So my 64GB Crucial M225's are probably not compatible then?

im curious about it too

[Daveburt714]

source:

http://www.ocztechnology.com/aboutocz/press/2011/432

I'm really not trying to be a jerk here....
But since when did immediately turn in to 10+ days?

I keep looking for a FW update and there's nothing to be found.
Am I missing something?

[zanzabar]

any info when this is out, its been almost a month now and u would think that it would not be announced till it was ready when there are no indi drives sold anymore to the consumer market (or atleast not in large numbers)

[Computurd]

yea im excited about it too...cant wait, im still beating on these 8 old school vertex

[danielkza]

I guess 'immediately' has a whole new meaning for OCZ.

[zanzabar]

I guess 'immediately' has a whole new meaning for OCZ.

the 1st rev of the RC failed QA, so it got delayed. i gave up on checking and am expecting late july as they should test for atleast a month and they had to tweak it

[danielkza]

the 1st rev of the RC failed QA, so it got delayed. i gave up on checking and am expecting late july as they should test for atleast a month and they had to tweak it

That can't be good considering even production firmware from OCZ is not what one would call stable and problem-free.

[zanzabar]

That can't be good considering even production firmware from OCZ is not what one would call stable and problem-free.

the indi drives were fine until 1.6, and ocz has been one of the better ones until the sandforce drives but they sold alot of drives before the micron 34nm was out so they had to close the gap from the old micron and toshiba 50nm to the 34nm and they picked wrong and went with naya. so they were caught in a problem if horrendously expensive micron nand and selling it for no profit or a loss like intel did or drop the price and try out other nand. they also have awesome support so while they do die they also replace them, and if u look at the other early ssd makers like patriot or gskill or adata that have 1 year warranties or will not replace the drives if the nand wears out.

[Computurd]

they should have named it the FTW firmware instead of the FTL firmware might have gone better

[zanzabar]

they should have named it the FTW firmware instead of the FTL firmware might have gone better

ftl means faster than light, thats way better than the evga going with for the win (stupid) when it was the world before that.

[generics_user]

i'm so happy that i got rid of all indilinx drives i owned, each of them failed at leas 2 times within a year (3 drives, 1OCZ, 2 Supertalent) - i'll stay with samsung and intel controllers even though they cost slightly more and perform slightly worse; at least they don't have a 100% failure rate like indlinx drives using the 1.6 firmware or crap NAND like their Sandforce drives

[Computurd]

no no no....these are computer/gaming sayings my friend...

FTW=For The Win.....shamelessly stolen by EVGA, but in use for years before that.

FTL=For The Loss.....as in something that sucks. tbh when i first seen the name of this firmware, that was the first thing i thought, and i bet that there are thousands who thought the same way...

[zanzabar]

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/fo...-FW-when/page7

tony said yesterday that its in testing

testing what looks like the final build now....remember not all our drives are supported, upon release we will tell you what are and what are not

[Computurd]

good to hear its still coming along

[FlawleZ]

RyderOCZ lists Compatible Drives with FTL Firmware:
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/fo...l=1#post667844

[zanzabar]

well this is crap i sent in a 641102 (or i think it was as i had the number written on scratch paper) for rma affter the 1.6 update made it die in a few weeks and i got back a 101102 and its slow as , cannot be flashed to a turbo and now no FTL

[FlawleZ]

well this is crap i sent in a 641102 (or i think it was as i had the number written on scratch paper) for rma affter the 1.6 update made it die in a few weeks and i got back a 101102 and its slow as , cannot be flashed to a turbo and now no FTL

That sucks. I just flashed mine to 1.6 tonight and after the flash it said it failed but after I powered off completely and rebooted it worked fine and showed 1.6 firmware. Performance wasn't improved over 1.5 for me though.

[DedEmbryonicCe1]

Aren't the prices way too high to be competitive? Vertex Plus 60GB is $89 at Amazon, $90 at Newegg - 120GB is $171 at Amazon and $180 at Newegg. Even the specification sheet performance is two generations behind.