OCZ ARC 100 SSD for Mac Pro Hackintosh on Yosemite

I was considering buy this as it had one of the best speeds for 2015 for the money...

http://www.amazon.com/OCZ-Solutions-2-5-Inch-Ultra-Slim-ARC100-25SAT3-240G/dp/B00LULV4V2

I dont see that it is on the compatability list.. Wanted to know if anyone uses or if I should just stick to getting a samsung 840 SSD.

Thanks

anybody?

No one has any input why the capability list for Yosemite is restricted to just samsung SSD's?

The samsung drives have been proven to be some of the best performing drives for the price, that's why they're on the guide. But you can use any SSD and you will be fine. I personally really like the crucial drives.

bhollehday said:

I was considering buy this as it had one of the best speeds for 2015 for the money...

http://www.amazon.com/OCZ-Solutions-2-5-Inch-Ultra-Slim-ARC100-25SAT3-240G/dp/B00LULV4V2

I dont see that it is on the compatability list.. Wanted to know if anyone uses or if I should just stick to getting a samsung 840 SSD.

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The only snag I've ever run into with the newer SSDs is the boot0 error. Whether this happens
depends on the size of the sectors on the drive. You'll just need to try it to find out. Fix is quite
easy to implement. Toshiba now owns OCZ so I think you can trust them to sell a reliable SSD.

Under 69 USD for a 240 GB drive (SSD) is the lowest I've ever seen. Less than .30 a GB.
IMO much smarter to buy one of these for 10-14 dollars more than a 120 GB drive that is slower
and less reliable. Some of the smaller SSD companies will buy their flash memory from someone
else and often switch it out for something slower and less expensive. Toshiba/OCZ doesn't do that
because they use the Toshiba produced NAND Flash exclusively.

bhollehday said:

I was considering buy this as it had one of the best speeds for 2015 for the money...

http://www.amazon.com/OCZ-Solutions-2-5-Inch-Ultra-Slim-ARC100-25SAT3-240G/dp/B00LULV4V2

I dont see that it is on the compatability list.. Wanted to know if anyone uses or if I should just stick to getting a samsung 840 SSD.

Thanks

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OCZ is Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology

Toshiba Owns %51 and Samsung owns %49

So Technically Samsung SSD and Toshiba SSD is almost the samething

But My Opinion is Go with ADATA they are fast and they work great
Other thing don't go with Curcical My SSD from them was brand new not refub. died really fast

So now the thing is almost really all SSD will work my ADATA 256GB SX900 Works Great You will just need the TRIM Fix that should be in multibeast

I've located some info on a torture test that KitGuru is currently running on 5 of the
OCZ Arc 100 240 GB drives. They were still going after 200 TB of writes and now are
over the 300 TB mark and none have failed. That should give some reassurance.

Here's the CDI for one of the 5 OCZ SSD drives.

They are warrantied for at least 22 TB of writes, an amount that you'll likely never go over in
the timespan of your ownership of the SSD. I've used the Crucial M4 SSD for over three years
now and it's still almost as fast as the day I've installed Lion on it. So go with either Samsung,
Crucial or the OCZ and don't worry. All three of those SSD's have excellent warranty support.
Here's the general terms of the OCZ warranty: If the drive were to fail, contact OCZ, no warranty
proof is even needed. Then return the old drive in the prepaid envelope and you're all set. They will
send you a new one when they test it and find a defect that has lead to it's failure.

I would expect that you could get 5+ years of use out of one of these with even heavy usage. By then upgrade to a newer, faster, less expensive SSD. Likely a very fast PCI-e SSD. Let us know how it works out.

http://ocz.com/shieldplus

LiteGaming said:

OCZ is Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology

Toshiba Owns %51 and Samsung owns %49

So Technically Samsung SSD and Toshiba SSD is almost the same thing.

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TSST has nothing to do with OCZ. TSST is a joint venture between Toshiba and Samsung
to make DVD burners, (optical drives.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_Samsung_Storage_Technology

OCZ is now fully owned by Toshiba and competes with Samsung in the SSD market.

The first SSD I ever bought was from OCZ. It was a 256GB drive and cost me like 400 bucks. Still running like a champ in my web server. I know some people had issues with their reliability, but mine was rock solid. Glad to see they are still doing good with Toshiba.

mucksavage said:

The first SSD I ever bought was from OCZ. It was a 256GB drive and cost me like 400 bucks. Still running like a champ in my web server. I know some people had issues with their reliability, but mine was rock solid. Glad to see they are still doing good with Toshiba.

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Most SSDs will last a very long time unless you get one defective from the factory. Failure rates
have become much lower than mechanical HDDs. Thats why I feel bigger capacity is always better
as operating systems get bigger and we write larger and larger video, photo and other files to
our drives. So in your case you paid more initially but get a much longer period of usefulness.
Solid state is the way to go, just hope prices continue to go lower. May even see 1 TB
SSD drives for $100 or less before we reach 2020.