slow hard drive

[Me+Me]

Yeah I bought an OCZ 60GB Vertex I think it was back in about 2011 when they first came out. 
Great invention.

I bought the same drive in 2011. It failed a few years later (along with every other OCZ drive I owned). They had a weird firmware bug that caused them to just stop working.

I think they got bought out by Toshiba, or someone. 

Definitely couldn't go back to spinning rust these days. I'm 100% solid state, aside from my archive server which is running a RAID 10 on HDDs.

I agree.  And interestingly I had a Vertex 2 die, (think it was that one), for no apparent reason.  I'd bought it off Pb Tech.  They declined to replace it under warranty as they said the little sticker on one corner which said "warranty void if removed" had been damaged - although it very obviously had not been removed and even if it had that wouldn't be any reason to deny warranty.  Well it was partially stuck over a small flat headed phillips screw and 'someone' had damaged the sticker by obviously putting a screwdriver thru the sticker and into the head of the screw.  It wasn't me and I got a little hot under the collar about their insinuation.  In fact I think it was them trying to avoid a warranty claim.  Anyway after a short to & fro by email with me mentioning a couple of legal points they fell over and replaced it.  Lol.  Thats the only issue I had with those drives.  And yeah I'm 100%  SSD now - well except for a 500GB backup drive in the old desktop.  The OS runs from an SSD of course.