OCZ Solid 3 SLD3-25SAT3-60G 2.5" 60GB SATA III MLC

Pros: It looks nice and solid.

Cons: SSD died in a day after installing Windows 7.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Anonymous,

If you haven't contacted Newegg for a prompt replacement please do so. You may also contact us directly and we will make replacement arrangements. If you have any issues at all with the replacement please visit our Support Forum and we will assist in getting the drive setup and working properly.

We are very sorry for the inconvenience!

Kind Regards,
OCZ Support

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Pros: Nice fast SSD with SATA3 support.

Cons: Flakes out and loses sync with the SATA bus. Meaning the drive can no longer be read from or written to. It got progressively worse, stopping working at progressively shorter intervals.

Other Thoughts: This was probably exacerbated by several installs, but the only thing on the drive was the OS and basic updates, all non-core programs were loaded to a different drive as were user directories.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Anonymous,

We are happy to help you with this. If you visit our Support Forum we can provide tools that reset the drive to a like-new condition and update the firmware as well as assist with setup procedures. Please take a moment to contact us and we will gladly assist.

We are very sorry for the inconvenience!

Kind Regards,
OCZ Support

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Pros: Easy to install, Worked great with Windows 7 & 8 64Bit, Silent!, Doesn't run hot like other drives do, Its really fast!, What else to say its awesome!

Cons: None what so ever!

Other Thoughts: It is a shame they have discontinued this great little drive! I have owned & used many drives as bar back as to the old 8086, 8088, Tandy, and so on ... Yeah I a little old, but any way this is to date one of my favorite & most liked hard drives. Its silent, you cant even tell its there. Its fast, takes seconds to boot into Windows 7 64bit. It runs cool unlike your topical SATA or IDE drives. Its very small! But then again most SSDs are. I also had no problems installing it into my PC with no need to update or flash my bios to use it as I did with my old SATA's. If your looking for a great Master Boot drive & can find it any where online its well worth it! Now I am just waiting to find a decent priced 400GB+ SSD to use for my games on Steam & I will most likely stick with the OCZ which honestly I was iffy about not ever having used them before but its awesome!

Pros: fast fast fast running 2 in raid 0 on sabertooth 990FX (rev.2)

rant speed test here are results
Blocks - Read - Random Read
0.5Kb 37.98MB/s 2.89MB/s
1KB 74.79MB/s 5.75MB/s
2KB 145.97MB/s 11.34MB/s
4KB 267.09MB/s 22.02MB/s
8KB 494.13MB/s 41.00MB/s
16KB 807.10MB/s 73.66MB/s
32KB 461.74MB/s 122.69MB/s
64KB 1004.49MB/s 193.21MB/s
128KB 467.52MB/s 302.09MB/s
256KB 1.00GB/s 345.14MB/s
512KB 410.79MB/s 207.79MB/s
1024KB 1.00GB/s 328.27MB/s

windows experience index for disk data transfer rate
7.9

Cons: Not a single one

Other Thoughts: People were complaining about not haveing a the drive bay adapter all tho mine came with it in the box it's a thin metal pice with 2 angles on it and come's with scrwes to bolt it to it. Fit right in my BTX tower case

Window's boot's in a flash


system build

1100 watt PSU 6 rail
Asus Sabertooth 990FX (rev.2) mobo
AMD 8150 8 Core (oc to steady 4GHz) 211x19
OCZ Solid 3 60GB SSD ( x2 in raid 0 ) (Os SSD)
G.skill 12GB DDR3 1333 (2x2 + 4x2) RipJaw
Nivida 250GTS 1GB (x2 running in x16 x16 Sli)


SSD's may not be for every one but i play game's and i mean game's at the same time while streaming audio and video to outher PC's/Xbox360 all at the same time Cant be bothered with long seek time's when stuff is pulling from all over a disk

Audio and Video is stored on seperate 250GB HDD's

....Game loading + done ( i can blink and miss it)

Pros: fast and at this price raid o is a must

Cons: none

Pros: Installed this to keep my OS on and it works great. Super fast. Used 500GB HDD as a mountpoint to install all of my non-essential programs on to keep this new SSD as empty as possible. It gets a Windows Experience rating of 7.2 but my mobo only has 3Gbps Sata II connectors, so I can only imagine the speed with 6Gbps connectors.

Cons: 60GB isn't a lot of space to work with but I knew when I ordered it.

Other Thoughts: If you are using this as your primary disk I suggest having some other storage installed in you system. Mine for example has this SSD for OS only, a 500GB HDD mountpoint, a 2TB HDD to keep all of my music, video, pictures, etc., and another 1TB HDD that I use to keep my system backed up.

My future plans are to purchase 1 or 2 more 60GB SSD and create a stripping array. This will increase my storage potential and the speed.

Pros: I know quite a bit about computers but have only recently learned and used SSD. This is the first SSD drive I have owned and am very pleased with this purchase. With the new system, the computer boots off of the SSD drive and has a WD VelociRaptor for other programs and data. The computer boots Windows 7 pro before the windows logo even shows. Very Quick!!!

Cons: None as of now.

Other Thoughts: I have heard horor stories of SSD drives going bad with to much writing but I have yet to experience this.

Pros: Worked without firmware updates or anything on Ubuntu 12.04.
Quieter and cooler than the HDD it replaced.
Its still going after few months without issues.

Cons: The computer has problems resuming from sleep sometimes, haven't really looked to see whats causing it.

Other Thoughts: I bought this to replace an HDD that was dropped on a friend's netbook. Bought it for the shock resistance, but haven't dropped it yet to test that out.
Didn't benchmark it for speed or anything, as I don't really care.

Pros: Look at the price, capacity, and specs. There really isn't much else to say. It's a fantastic value.

Cons: Doesn't come with SATA cable or 3.5" mount. This isn't really a con so long as you're aware of it. SSDs don't put out any heat, so a piece of cardboard and some duct tape makes a more than adequate mount.

Other Thoughts: As the title states, this is a great drive for some uses, not all. Don't try to use it as your only disk (as in a laptop), unless you're a thin client. Otherwise, it's definitely too small. Windows 7 Ultimate would take up a third of this drive before you even install anything.

Pros: they are about 10 times faster than HDDs by far!

Cons: EXPENSIVE!! SSDs are really expensive but you get what you pay for in a sense...