OCZ Synapse Cache

91 reviews

Apr, 2024

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alaTest has collected and analyzed 91 reviews of OCZ Synapse Cache. The average rating for this product is 3.4/5, compared to an average rating of 4.5/5 for other products in the same category for all reviews.

We analyzed user and expert ratings, product age and more factors. Compared to other products in the same category the OCZ Synapse Cache is awarded an overall alaScore™ of 88/100 = Very good quality.

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Consumer review (amazon.com)

Amazon.com review summary for OCZ Synapse Cache

alaTest has collected and analyzed 39 user reviews of OCZ Synapse Cache from Amazon.com. The average user rating for this product is 3.3/5, compared to an average user rating of 4.5/5 for other products in the same category on Amazon.com.

59% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Apr, 2024

Expert review by : AkG (hardwarecanucks.com)

OCZ Synapse 64GB SSD Cache Drive Review

The current storage market is all about contrasts but the OCZ Synapse 64GB cache drive is trying to act as an intermediary. On one hand we have the

Reasonable price ; Massive over-provisioning guards against durability concerns ; Will work with your existing hard drive ; Only moderate CPU requirements ; Near-SSD performance sure to make first time users extremely happy ; Can Help extend the life...

Does require CPU cycles to work ; Relies on less than optimal ONFi 1 NAND ; Massive over-provisioning is needed to reduce the performance degradation ; Only 30GB of room for caching ; Not precisely a plug and play setup

The OCZ Synapse is one of those “outside the box” ideas that actually works surprisingly well in the real world. It may not be perfect and

Mar, 2012

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Consumer review (ebuyer.com)

Overclockers Tech - Synapse 'Breathe some life into your mechanical hard drives.

The OCZ Synapse Cache SSD is a product that works exactly as described and is a great solution for those of you who are looking to breathe some life into your mechanical hard drives. As mentioned previously, the cost of large capacity SSD's can easily...

Jul, 2012

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Consumer review (ebuyer.com)

Fantastic Purchase

This was a fantastic investment. Easy to fit on my Alienware 17x R3 and has significantly improved the performance of the stock 750Gb mechanical drive.

Jun, 2012

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Consumer review (ebuyer.com)

Rubbish.. for me at least

Bought this about 3 months ago. Had nothing but trouble with it. Was met for my laptop (dell l702x) but the drive would stick on the loading screen. Tried it in my custom desktop and it worked on and off with random restarts and diagnostics.

Jun, 2012

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Consumer review (ebuyer.com)

Not a good experience

Cannot not recommend this drive at all. It has put me off buying anything OCZ in the future.

Mar, 2012

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

It will make you HDD faster

For the best performance, this should be used as a cache for HDD. I am using this with my 2TB HDD and they work like a hybrid.

price, cache

small capacity (30GB or even zero)

Feb, 2014

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

dont waste your money

makes loading stuff faster

0 room for files it is all used by data plex

Jul, 2013

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

BANG 4 THE BUCK

BUILT 2 HTPC SYSTEMS WITH THIS SSD AND 1TB 64M CACHE/7200RPM HARD DRIVES ON BOTH..WORKS LIKE A DREAM,SOFTWARE AND SETUP IS WAY EASIER THEN INTEL RST TECHNOLGY.GREAT BOOST FOR BOTH SYSTEMS

NONE AS OF YET

Apr, 2013

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

great drive if you actually READ the description!!

people REALLY need to learn how to READ the bloody descriptions! its clearly indicated that 32gigs would be used as cache, yet people act surprised that 'zomg only 29 gigs formatted RIPOFF!!'

pci-e connection. frees up a space in your hd rack for a storage drive. does exactly what it says

only 32gigs cache

Feb, 2013

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Consumer review (newegg.com)