OCZ Agility 2 2.5" 60GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) OCZSSD2-2AGTE60G

Pros: First foray into SSD and let me tell you my PC has some zip to it now! HD Tune gives me an access time of .1 ms a transfer rate of 121 MB/s minimum, 207 MB/s maximum and an avg. of 190 MB/s. Burst rate is 155 MB/s. This in Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. It's different each time but this is about the average... The best maximum I have seen so far is 220 MB/s. Programs installed on my SATA hard drives are much faster now as well, by a significant amount... games not on the Agility drive have gained a big boost to load times, this was something I did not expect but it makes sense.

Cons: Haven't come close to the 285 MB/s yet. The 3.5" drive adapter is great but will not fit my 5.25" adapter, the screws do not align properly. Also, the 3.5" adapter would not fit in my drive tray in my Cooler Master HAF 932... the pins would not snap all the way in on one side so currently I have it resting on top of my DVD-RW in the 3.5" tray it came with.

Overall Review: The current firmware for this drive is 1.1 NOT 1.6 as stated by another reviewer. The original Agility series has a different firmware (1.6) than the Agility 2 series look very carefully at the downloads section on OCZ's website. This is a new drive and ships with the current firmware. OCZ's website has a lot of info on how to set these up in their forums, check it out. Basically Windows 7 (and Vista) will 'align' the drive properly during formatting, Windows XP won't so you will need to format it first then run XP install. After install you will need to disable superfetch, prefetch, disk defrag, enable write caching and turn off write-cache buffer flushing, disable indexing and make sure Trim is enabled. Not all these are automatic as Microsoft claims, as a matter of fact, I had to do all this manually. Hopefully this link works: it is the page on OCZ forums that outlines everything for you... http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?63273-*-Windows-7-Ultimate-Twea

Pros: Fast/Cheap/Customer Service

Cons: Terribly short lifespan. I don’t normally do reviews but I don’t want any Eggers to have to go through the hassle I did. I purchased 15-20 of these over a 3-4 month period in an attempt to breathe some life back into some aging company laptops. I was hoping to put off replacing them for a year or better at least. I used Agility, Agility 2, Vertex and Vertex 2 drives. First drive dead without warning within 3 months. In just under a year 13 drives failed. No warning at all. Simply attempt to boot the machine one day and it will not detect a boot device. I can understand this in one or tops two but not over 50%. This can't be pointed at a bad batch as these drives were different models purchased at different times from multiple vendors. I can't speak for their new lines/models as I will not purchase another OCZ drive.

Overall Review: OCZ customer service is great to deal with. After a short conversation they will happily replace your drive but no amount of customer service can replace the data that may have been lost (no way to get all users to store all data on the servers) or the time it takes to build a machine back up. Switched to Intel x25's and 320 series drives and never looked back. Haven't had a single hiccup. Don’t waste your time/money on these drives if you don’t feel like reloading every few months!

Pros: Everything is true about the rumors. Windows boots in 10 secs and shutsdown in the same. Wei score is 7.7 with achi enabled. Did all of the tweaks about putting all of the stuff that gets alot of writes on the hdd. Haven't had any problems yet. Updated this to firmware 1.35 shipped with 1.33 I bought this from a freind who bought this from newegg.

Cons: 0

Overall Review: This was my guinea pig, Can't wait to get a 120GB SSD. So far all of the bad reviews about ocz scared me to death but my freind said they were good so i took his advice. I just think all of the bad reviews are from people that don't know what there doing and put these to sleep/hibernate and beat them up with alot of writes. I think we all have to baby these things until they get them durable like hdd's

Pros: fast fast very very rapida (fast) Installed W7x86 in 7 Mins From Power Button to fully functional sys, less than 1 min. will get 1 more, later 4 my laptop WEI 7.8

Cons: just worried about SSD performance in the future.

Overall Review: Move Internet Temp file to HDD, turned off virtual mem , Games, downloads, documents, Music & vieos to HDD (not really necessary because i keep my files on external HDD). My Sys Phenom II X4 955 BE 3.2GHz (O.C) 3.6GHz ASUS M3N78-VM AM2+/AM2/AM3 ASUS 20X DVD±R DVD Burner ASUS GeForce GTS 450 (Fermi) 1GB (NEW) 4x Kingston HyperX 1GB DDR2 1066 OCZ Agility2 2.5" 60GB SATA II MLC SSD (OS) (NEW) Seagate HDD 500GB 7200RPM (games, files & some programs) CHALLENGER Black Gaming ATX Computer Case ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 64 Pro CORSAIR CMPSU-650TX 650W ATX12V (NEW) Windows 7x86 Experience Index (WEI) Processor 7.4 (Quad Core) Memory (RAM) 7.6 (4 GB) Graphics 7.3 (GTS 450) Gaming Graphics 7.3 (2431 MB) Primary Hard Disk 7.8 (SSD 60GB)

Pros: Small, fast, not an HDD with no moving parts, easy to install and setup OS. Includes 3.5" adapter for larger cases.

Cons: N/A

Overall Review: This is my first SSD; Ubuntu 12.04 AMD64 LTS installed like a charm. The OS start-up is so much faster than an HDD! 3.5" adapter seems like an 3.48" since I had to bend my case's sides slightly to hold the SSD well (could be my case though, not the 3.5" adapter).

Pros: I'm using this in a Sabayon machine. It's given me exactly zero problems and it's very zippy and pleasent. I like it. I was expecting some drama from it but none at all. No updates were required. I am not using it in the manner it should be used. It gets frequent writes. It is not sitting nicely secured in its bracket. It sat on a shelf unwrapped for a year. When it dies I will not be surprised and I won't cry.

Cons: It's tiny. 60GB is not so much. That's not really a CON (if I had wanted more space, I should have bought a bigger drive, RIGHT?) but I had to put something here.

Overall Review: I bought this over a year ago. Installed W7 on it. Person it was intended for didn't want it, so it sat on a windowsill (really) until a month ago when I needed a harddrive for my own machine because all my mechnical drives had died. I dusted it off, shoved its badly-fitting-self into the bay and pressed the button. It's a bit too big to be used as a cache so I will just use it until it until it dies. SSD is somewhat new tech and there are still issues with it. People who want these things to perform like mechnical drives (which have had 20+ years to mature) have set their expectations too high. We're the beta testers for these things. Keep. Backups. Frequent. Backups. Use a cloud service, a bash script, a trained canary, but keep daily backups and you will not cry when a drive fails. Because ALL harddrives will eventually fail, it's just a matter of when and where and how much they take with them when they go.

Pros: Fast. Huge improvment over a platter HDD.

Cons: Died the first time at 11 months. Simply BSOD'd and was no longer detected. Got an RMA replacement. Died again after only 5 months. Same thing, BSOD, reboot, drive is dead and undetectable. Starting ANOTHER RMA process... Unacceptable.

Overall Review: Its clear that these drives are a "problem" drive for OCZ. There are over 100 other reports of the same short lifespan here on Newegg's feedback alone. Who knows how many others out there have had this problem and didnt write feedback for it? If this is not fixable with a firmware update to prevent whatever is bricking them, then OCZ needs to start upgrading their RMA's to a newer/better model. Make this right OCZ or I, for one, will never buy another OCZ product again.

Pros: I bought this drive in october of 2010, and it has performed flawlessly. I have had not one problem with it. It is very fast. I average 240+mbs read and 225+mbs write. Burst speeds exceed that level. After motherboard post screen to windows desktop takes 15-17 seconds. at that point I can go online instantly, no waiting for loading.

Cons: was a little pricey for 60 gigs but that is given considering what it is

Overall Review: I took the time to install this drive properly and I did not update the firmware. I really do not understand why so many people are having trouble with this drive. I plan on adding another one of these drives soon for a RAID O setup which will give me the performance of the newer sandforce drives plus I get another 60gigs for the same price. awesome!