OCZ Agility 2 2.5" 240GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) OCZSSD2-2AGTE240G

Pros: Computer turn on from "cold iron" to opening up the start menu went from 1 minute 46 seconds to only 32 seconds. Fastest drive and capacity for the price at the time. Low heat signature compared to standard platter drives. Much more rugged for laptops, can handle more Gshock loads. Can you say clumsy son? Plug and play for Toshiba Satellite laptop and took less time to install Windows 7 with online updates than the previous standard drive did. If your impatient this is the drive to get.

Cons: None so far.

Overall Review: Installed in Toshiba Satellite laptop. Dual core 2.1 GHz processor. 8 Gigs of DDR2 RAM. Onboard video card. Packaging was great, make sure your getting new not rebuilt or RMA'd drive as they might not come in the factory box. I think most of the people here lie about their tech knowledge. I consider myself average as I can buy all the individual parts, put them together, install the OS, and work out minor driver issues. I see so many with maxed out "tech knowledge" and yet can't install what I consider "plug and play" Especially with Windows 7, I did nothing but plug it in and Windows did the rest including removing the disk defrag option. Which you don't want with an SSD. With large files my read/write times were almost spot on with the write Mb/sec and only 10 or so Mb/sec slow on the read. Do your research and if you have to, call OCZ BEFORE you buy to make sure it will work with your setup. They are one of the few that has good customer service.

Pros: Improved my Windows Experience Disk score from 5.9 to 7.7. System boots in under twenty seconds and applications load instantaneously. A real productivity booster!

Cons: Wasn't free. Doesn't make me breakfast.

Pros: Very fast. No issues with Windows 7 Professional install on Dell Vostro 1500. RMA with OCZ was fairly painless. The replacement has lasted over a month so far.

Cons: Died after 33 days. Had some strange errors and then was completely undetected by BIOS.

Overall Review: I have owned 3 OCZ SSDs (all in different machines): OCZ Agility - seemed to be failing - no longer used OCZ Agility 2 - died after 33 days - replacement has lasted 38 days so far OCZ Vertex 2 - died after 57 days - RMA in progress These OCZ drives are super fast. The reliability, however, doesn't seem to be on par with the performance.

Pros: Fast? Can't say yet ...two of them have been DOA.

Cons: High rate of DOA. Refund not an option.

Overall Review: I will not trust my data on these drives.

Pros: The drive actually performs as advertised in Win7 x64(See other thoughts). I had a WEI of 5.9 with a 300 GB Velociraptor which improved to a 6.9 with a 128 GB SSD (TRIM) and then finally to a 7.5 (Sandforce controller) with this drive. I still have 147 GB of the 223 GB (See other thoughts) and can't imagine needing anything larger for my Main/OS/Boot drive. Bottom line with this SSD and any other mod that costs this much $ is that IT CHANGES your whole PC experience. With an SSD, it's like buying an oven that doesn't require preheating. It literally changes your life in terms of how you deal with the technology.

Cons: Well, the $ is an obvious drawback. I spent $150 in 2001 or 2002 for a Samsung 128 MB MP3 player the size of a bic. Point is you pay to have the bucks to have the newest & bestest toys.

Overall Review: I have two separate references in my Pros area. The 1st is that it's sad when "a Pro" is that a product actually performs in the manner it was advertised, but consumers also need to take "numbers" with a grain of salt. Everyone knows that the MPG's they list for an Escalade came from ideal conditions on the highway. Enough said there. 2nd, if you can't figure out how the evil companies are stealing your much valued GB's, try Googling, "base 10 number system" & "binary." You should understand pretty soon after that.

Pros: Fast speeds, fast boot times, no moving parts.

Cons: I've had this drive in my Lattitude e6410 for just over 6 months without an issue at all. Until I powered off as I do at the end of every work day. When I got home and powered up, I was greeted with a "No boot device found". The drive is unrecognized in the BIOS on two computers, and if I boot up a live linux CD and force a scan of the drive, it fails badly.

Overall Review: No warning, no errors, just a quick death. If we look up to the manufacturers details of the drive, focus on this wording... "supreme reliability". What a crock of ad-linguistics. These SSD drives are no more reliable than a spinning hard drive, they're also next to impossible to recover any data from in a failure... unlike a spinning disk. More ad-verbage... "Ultimate reliability Designed for ultimate reliability, Agility 2 Series SSDs have an excellent 2 million hour mean time between failure (MTBF) ensuring peace of mind over the long term. Agility 2 Series comes backed by a 3-year warranty and award-winning technical support for the ultimate peace of mind. " My drive had at most 4000 hours of life before failure. A single Windows 7 install on the drive, no defragmentation running. ULTIMATE RELIABILITY? No. Not at all. Hey OCZ, want someone to tell you that it truely is "ULTIMATE RELIABILITY"? Send me back my data when the RMA is complete.

Pros: Fast and silent. Boot times went from 1:50 to 50 seconds. Programs load much faster and some games seem to transition faster with shortened level load times. Plenty of space. Running fine for 3 months so far.

Cons: 1) Price. 2) As some have stated, it's bad when you are waiting for the day that your PC won't boot and you have the box standing by for an RMA. That anticipation isn't pleasant. 3) Not as fast as I thought it would be. 4) Not a plug & play replacement. Takes a lot of tweaking to get the best performance and lifetime.

Overall Review: - This is used as an OS/Programs/Games drive in a desktop with a 1TB Caviar Black as a data drive. - My boot time comparison is not exact as I was forced to re-install Win7 in order to get the partition alignment right. I was hoping to just use Acronis to image the WD and restore to the SSD but it was not to be. Apparently partition alignment is more critical for SSDs over spinners. - Takes a lot of tweaking. While the system IS much snappier the time I spent "getting it right" will take some time to pay for itself. The first thyou notice in the support forum is 1/2 page of "sticky" posts on theings you need to do to get the most out of these drives, that's kinda' crazy. Tweaks: - Disabled hibernate - Disabled power saving (desktop system) - Moved Music, Video, Downloads, My games, and Pictures to the HDD - Reduced the size of the system restore folder and redirected dump files to the HDD - While I have left indexing enabled I relocated the index folder to the HDD

Pros: Drive installed very quickly. I used Ghost to make a downsized copy of my current drive. Had to send off for a second connector, but that is (cheap) HP's fault, not the drive. Ghost took about 2.5 hours, and I was up with the fast drive. Windows "experience" went from 5.6 to 7.5. PowerPoint files which took 6 seconds to load are now instantaneous. Windows boots in about 15 seconds. So far, excellent.

Cons: Not a con, but a caution. Diskeeper needs to be replaced with a new version from them that specifically handles SSD drives. Use of the old diskeeper theoretically shortens the life of the SSD.

Overall Review: Doing this without Ghost is like a new install. Doing this with Ghost is superb, easy, and fast.