Posts tagged 'ssd'

RSS Feed for OCZ Vertex 3 SSD firmware updates

Here’s a quick and dirty solution to me not being able to keep updated with OCZ firmware updates for my Vertex 3 SSD. For whatever reason, OCZ doesn’t provide a news feed of firmware updates (that I know of, correct me if I’m wrong!) so I’ve sorted a screen scraping Yahoo Pipes pipe to do it for me:

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=a1f15d7ead0122567ad6537b2de484a3&_render=rss

This RSS feed will (or should) only ever feature just 1 item - the latest version information for the firmware. So, it won’t handle keeping track of …

in Hardware · Thu 20 October 2011

How to: Updating OCZ Vertex 3 SSD Firmware (on a Dell M1530 laptop)

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Update 3: This guide is effectively now entirely outdated with regards to the available tools. I’ve gone back to simply using a Windows boot disk to handle the firmware upgrades, although they’ve gotten less frequent as of late.

I’ve just shelled out a good chunk of money in buying an OCZ Vertex 3 240GB solid state drive (SSD) and it’s amazingly quick. So amazingly quick that I thought I may just have fallen into a coma when I had to temporarily switch back to my old mechanical hard drive and boot from it again. And …

in Hardware · Sat 21 May 2011

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