Late last year I decided to migrate some of my PCs to SSD boot drives. One of the drives I bought was by OCZ, an Agility Series 120GB 2.5″ drive. Its performance turned out to be very good and I had zero problems with it — until now.
I had to move the drive into another PC. So, I popped open the PC chassis, took hold of the freely dangling drive with my right hand and proceeded to remove first the power connector, then the SATA cable. I must’ve done this same procedure maybe hundreds of times with SATA drives in the past. At this point I didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary. It was only when I was trying to re-connect the drive that I noticed something was amiss. View full article »