OCZ SSD freezes pc weekly, looking for alternate option

As an update, I have bought an Intel 510 SSD. That is now my OS drive, while my OCZ Vertex 3 is the games drive, and the WD Caviar Black is for storage/games. After doing further research comparisons across a few notable SSD brands, it appears the Intel is the most reliable out of the box and compatible with a large amount of system setups. So far the Intel 510 has been stable, alongside the not as reliable Vertex 3. Although it's not as fast as the Vertex 3, I'd definitely recommend it for those who don't want to update firmwares often, or for very solid stability/compatibility, especially for previous generation systems. Thanks to Seven Eleven for giving me some tips regarding firmware.

I have a Ocz vertex3 and the thing freezes up some times, all i can do is restart the computer then it won't reboot as it can't find the Hd, so i have to power off totaly and restart, it's a pain the the ass, i get odd stutters to while playing games it's really annoying: / my firmware version is 2.06, will updateing to the latest version fix it?

Months ago i've updated to 2.13. And no crashes after that. So for me it works and i haven't and will not risk update to latest (2.15? or something newer?).

Ok sorry if this question seems stupid, i'm not the best when it comes to computers. I have 2 hard drives the Ocz SSD and a normal hard drive i downloded the tools to update my SSD onto my normal drive as i have windows7 on there and i can use it to boot because updating the firmware is not supported when windows is running off the drive you are updating.
The problem is the update is failing as my SSD is set to "Drive0" and it says this on there website.."Drives must not appear as "Drive0" for updates. Please ensure update is not performed on a disk set to primary"
My question is can you tell me how i change this to do the update then i can change it back after i update the SSD, or is it to complicated to do for a novice?

...or you can follow this guide and flash it without cable switching.

I have an Agility 3 that shipped with the latest 2.15 firmware, and it's been rock solid and stable for me.

i changed the data cables over and yes indeed it changed the vertex SSD to drive1 and my normal Hd to drive0, but the update still fail's : /

I have been having the same issues, ironically happened while I was reading this thread :fou:

Interestingly this only started happening AFTER I switched over to AHCI from [ENHANCED] IDE. So to test this I rebooted my Win7 in safemode, uninstalled (from device manager) AHCI Intel Driver v. 11/11/2011 10.​8.​0.​1003. I then rebooted and changed from AHCI to [ENHANCED] IDE in my BIOS. Started Windows 7 NORMALLY, and let windows install the standard SATA IDE drivers v. 9.1.1.1016 - which are the latest from Intel....AND Voila, all works perfectly now. So I say there is a bug in the AHCI drivers from Intel causing issues on SOME Sata controllers... :bounce: