OCZ Slips Out Vertex 460A SSD

[btarunr]

OCZ doesn't want to repeat the mistakes of other SSD manufacturers, of launching variations of products, featuring different NAND flash than what the products launched with. The Toshiba-owned company launched the Vertex 460A, technically a new model, but essentially a variant of the Vertex 460, which consumers are aware of. The Vertex 460A comes with Toshiba A19 series MLC NAND flash, replacing the older 19 nm Toshiba flash. The product branding is upgraded, and the drive now comes with OCZ's new ShieldPlus warranty.



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[ssdpro]

The big thing here is the ShieldPlus warranty. OCZ/Toshiba must be really confident in these new products that have benefited from Toshiba QA to offer cross-ship, free shipping both ways and no receipt verification. IIRC OCZ actually did the flub the others are still doing back in 2010 with the old Sandfarce Vertex 2, having switched nand mid-stream that resulted in 20-30MB/s decreases without changing the model number to indicate. Kudos for not repeating that.

 

[Roph]

Why would toshiba keep the OCZ name? It's toxic.

 

[EarthDog]

I dont recall and NAND switch with OCZ... but it could be.

And yeah, the OCZ name can be toxic for their bad drives... when they were bad, they were TERRIBLE. Otherwise, their OVERALL failure rate, was just slightly worse than others (IIRC, around 3-4%).

 

[xrM]

I dont recall and NAND switch with OCZ... but it could be.

And yeah, the OCZ name can be toxic for their bad drives... when they were bad, they were TERRIBLE. Otherwise, their OVERALL failure rate, was just slightly worse than others (IIRC, around 3-4%).

They were one of the FIRST ssd manufacturers to do NAND switching without relabelling. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ocz-vertex-2-25nm-ssd,2867.html