hayder.masterok hold a sec. advice im was ready to order revodrive, should i wait

extrasaltyDecent review here:
www.storagereview.com/ocz_vertex_2_25nm_review_oczssd22vtxe60g

There has to be reason Intel sat on those chips for a few months. In my opinion, they either had a stockpile of the old chips, or there was a serious manufacturing problem. Most of the speed reduction seems to come from the fact the chips are half the size so for the same size, the previous generation have twice the channels. Knowing the 25 nm has much less write cycles, the speed reduction is just the tip of the iceberg.

As to OCZ's marketing BS, I can't say it better than the conclusion at Storagereview:

"The problem we have with this particular situation is that any choice to make an informed buying decision was taken away when OCZ sold and advertised these models as identical through online retailers. Both list the same 285MB/s read and 275MB/s write speeds, the same three year warranties, and the same retail price. What the average buyer doesn't know is that depending on which model they get, one is up to 49% slower than the other and has only 66% of the rated write-cycles. There are other complaints as well, such as having a 5GB smaller capacity. Considering both models are sold as being 60GB; one being formatted with 55.8GB of space with the other having only 51.2GB is a huge difference. All that said, at least the 25nm version held up well in our real world benchmarks.

Overall there is no question that OCZ messed up with the way they handled the introduction of 25nm flash with their consumer SSD line. Listing these drives as different models, changing the rated speeds, mentioning the lower expected life-span, and even changing the pricing would have let buyers know what they were getting in to. Instead they took the approach that no one would notice... well we did and plenty of their own buyers did too."

So there you go "The first SSD manufacturer to successfully fool the customers about the 2x nm transition"

extrasaltyDecent review here:
www.storagereview.com/ocz_vertex_2_25nm_review_oczssd22vtxe60g

There has to be reason Intel sat on those chips for a few months. In my opinion, they either had a stockpile of the old chips, or there was a serious manufacturing problem. Most of the speed reduction seems to come from the fact the chips are half the size so for the same size, the previous generation have twice the channels. Knowing the 25 nm has much less write cycles, the speed reduction is just the tip of the iceberg.

As to OCZ's marketing BS, I can't say it better than the conclusion at Storagereview:

"The problem we have with this particular situation is that any choice to make an informed buying decision was taken away when OCZ sold and advertised these models as identical through online retailers. Both list the same 285MB/s read and 275MB/s write speeds, the same three year warranties, and the same retail price. What the average buyer doesn't know is that depending on which model they get, one is up to 49% slower than the other and has only 66% of the rated write-cycles. There are other complaints as well, such as having a 5GB smaller capacity. Considering both models are sold as being 60GB; one being formatted with 55.8GB of space with the other having only 51.2GB is a huge difference. All that said, at least the 25nm version held up well in our real world benchmarks.

Overall there is no question that OCZ messed up with the way they handled the introduction of 25nm flash with their consumer SSD line. Listing these drives as different models, changing the rated speeds, mentioning the lower expected life-span, and even changing the pricing would have let buyers know what they were getting in to. Instead they took the approach that no one would notice... well we did and plenty of their own buyers did too."

So there you go "The first SSD manufacturer to successfully fool the customers about the 2x nm transition"

extrasaltyMy guess is the smaller space is a result of the new process having less write cycles, so the manufacturer has to provision more spare space. Double FFFUUUU.

Undead46How do I know if my SSD is affected?
It's showing 53.5GB free of 111GB.
I bought mine from Newegg on 12/23/10.
OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD3-2VTX120G 3.5" 120GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

Do I RMA?

devguyAt least they realized that they goofed up: Link