OCZ Agility 3 AGT3-25SAT3-120G 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

Pros: It works.

Cons: Not any faster than my Crucial RealSSD 60GB drive this was replacing. Pretty sad really.
Might as well forget any rebates, OCZ is a scam.

Other Thoughts: This is faster in writing large files, but 99% of the time you are reading files, not writing them. In that case my old Crucial drive was just as fast. I could have saved the money and bought a faster drive later.

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Pros: Fast. Even when running in SATA I/II speeds, maxed out on throughput.

Cons: A little strange when drive has to be encrypted. But this is most likely due to the encryption software and not the SSD itself.

Other Thoughts: So I use this for work in my T61 (which supports SATA I unless you upgrade the BIOS). Replaced my 160GB 7200rpm platter with this. Even though I am required to have encryption for work, this thing still outperforms the platter drive without encryption.

The only weird thing I noticed is that on occasion (say once a week or two) my machine will lock up for about 30 secs. I can't do anything for this time, but about 30 secs later it's back to normal. For work we have to have tons of bloatware and the ecryption installed so I'm not blaming the drive for this. I ran the drive for about a month without encryption and it would max out the SATA I speed on my laptop and boot XP SP3 in about 30 secs. After encryption my performance was brought down about 50%, but still MUCH better than standard platter HDD.

Pros: Fast, came with firmware 2.15 (upgraded to 2.22 since), price after rebate and coupon ($82), EASY rebate (cannot more dumb!), Green, SATA III (but gives very good SATA II performance)

Cons: none, none, none (I have three!). Actually I don't like the wrapping it comes with. The first I got was within a box like the Vertex 3, now you just have a thick, hard to open plastic wrap, not as sexy!

Other Thoughts: This is my 3rd Agility 3 and so far no issues, they all work flawlessly either on my AMD or Intel boards. OCZ has the easiest and fastest rebate system ever. Just sent mine last week got notification this week and everything is being processed. Also sometimes you can select to get a check rather than a card, which is pretty neat when it happens. I never missed one, knock on wood. Firmware 2.22 seems to solve issues for some, I didn't have issues on 2.15 anyways but I like to be current in updates. As I have a docking station on my CM690 II, I just have to plug the SSD there and run the Windows utility to flash. Easy as 1,2,3. I also have a Vertex 2 and 3 among Crucial M4 and Sandisk SSD, no issues there. Don't be fooled by posters who don't know what they are doing, this drive is amazing for the price/performance point. Just buy it! Remember to treat this like a memory stick, NOT a hard drive, they are VERY sensitive to static shocks!!!

Pros: Cost, speed

Cons: You may have issues, but none for me so far, most recent firmware fixes the potential for bugs for most users 99%+

Pros: Price/Size/Speed Ratio.

Picked this up for $80 AR and consider it a steal. Windows boots almost instantaneously.

Cons: Setup process; but this was due in part to my motherboard and some issues getting my HDD to boot in Ahci. With persistent googling and patience I was able to get the SSD up and running.

Other Thoughts: Be prepared to troubleshoot.

Pros: ssd

Cons: ssd

Other Thoughts: I purchased in 05/11 and had to rma about 5 months later. The BSODs were less frequent after RMA, but did continue. I recently replaced my aging PSU (which was ironically an OCZ PSU) and haven't had any BSODs since. In conclusion, I suspect that these drives require very stable power - more than a typical or aging psu might be able to maintain. GL and may the SandForce be with you.

Pros: Installs no problem , recognized by asus p68vpro. Fast Fast Fast , boots in sub 15 sec , loads into wow at least 5 sec before other players

Cons: Price per gb this was one of the cheapest but its still high.

Pros: fast price with rebate was $99
windows 7 recognized it right away

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: cant beat the price wish i had gotten 2 :(

Pros: Drive works as advertised - first SSD and it was a nice upgrade to my 2009 Asus notebook. Enough room for O/S, MS Office, etc...Hopefully I won't experience problems like a few reviewers...

Cons: As other reviewers have mentioned, their mail in rebate is just horrific. I've tried reasoning, emailing back and forth, and the only logical conclusion I can come up with is that Newegg or any other reseller needs to cut off OCZ's rebates. If you see a "after rebates" price, just IGNORE that price. Seriously, run away from their MiRs. OCZ, I hope you realize you're MiR program is deceptive flat out wrong to many customers.

Pros: Already had the latest firmware, installed very easy, provides very fast speeds. Just don't forget to enable AHCI and make sure you're running the latest firmware on your BIOS. I bought two and went RAID 0 and achieved read and write of 919MB/s and 1.01GB/s respectively according to ATTO. Not bad for a couple of hundred bucks altogether after rebate.

Cons: None really. People might want to read up on potential issues with SSDs if they want to avoid negative experiences. Enable AHCI before installing Windows is probably the biggest one. Outside of that there's not too much to be negative about. I guess price/MB is still an issue but it's getting better. Like I said above I did 240GB in RAID 0 for a couple hundred dollars after rebate. That's actually not a bad price.

Other Thoughts: I used to be a pure Intel SSD guy but really after trying these drives I see the benefit of being platform agnostic. OCZ has made a very competitive drive for the price with their Agility 3 drives. Not the fastest but certainly nothing to sneeze at. I'm glad I went RAID because with "the cloud" becoming so prevalent I'm not too worried about them crashing as all my sensitive data is on my standard platters/the cloud. If you get a chance and can do it raid these bad boys, you won't regret it.