Quote Originally Posted by Tony View Post
request an RMA...
Fair enough, if you think it is an individual drive issue, I'll request an RMA (or buy a new drive, I'm impatient and the V4 keeps dropping in price)

Quote Originally Posted by Tony View Post
I have run a 256GiB Vtx4 on 1.5 continually for days/weeks stress testing 100% of the drive, it got HOT, it kept going and its now sat in my macbook pro.

Vtx4's can run warm, you may have just heated that drive up and it took a dump...
I doubt it, winter here and ambient temps don't get beyond 20C. There would be reports all over the place if the vertex 4 was overheating. Also don't forget that i'm testing a 128gig drive, vs the 256gig drive in your system which behaved differently.

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Seriously though, 1 guy with an issue making it sound like the whole FW is broken...you really do need to see the big picture, I ONLY act and report issues when I see there is an issue...if we all jumped when 1 guy reports his drive took a dump you would never get beta FW never mind final

I will say this 1 last time...the VTX4 is designed to deliver fast writes BUT you have to let the drive FW work as intended, this means there is a possibility to push the drive outside of how it was designed to work....BUT end users who just use the drives never do this. In most cases the drive will just crawl...in your case something else happened but its never happened to me or any of the beta testers and not at HQ where we have been testing Vtx4 continually for months now continually.

We do NOT have a FW issue...you just think we do, if we did I would have a forum full of people with the same exact issue...and I don't, and neither does inhouse support...please see there is a massive machine watching and they jump ONLY when there is something to jump for.
Never said the entire firmware was broken, but I do question how strenuous your firmware testing has been if this been missed. And I will freely take it all back if it does indeed prove to be an individual drive problem. I do feel that it is a firmware problem, but the world is not perfect and these things happen, and I have been wrong in the past

Besides, don't take my critisims too harshly ... I do like the vertex 4 and it is an interesting drive. If I had really hated it, I would never have bought a second drive after killing the first

If you want an RMA please PM Ryder on the ocz forum....and please stop wearing out your drive needlessly, we do not warrant nand burn remember, no one does
But that is the whole point of this exercise

Besides, I have never asked for a RMA on a drive with worn out NAND. However I did appreciate being offered a possible RMA on the previous drive I tested and do feel that the RMA processes of OCZ are among the smoothest.