OCZ is Dead

Never had a problem with OCZ, had some RAM from them at different times and never really had an issue. But the recent bad rep probably put me off from going to them for SSDs

The one SSD I did have from OCZ was the Limited Edition with a crazy new controller from a new company called sandforce :p that this was bad ass
 
KILLER_K said:
Joke how you want about it. Their pci-express ssds was blazing fast. Although they did have some motherboard issues at that time with the ssds. Never honestly had any issues with the one I had. It is sad to see them go, if that is the case now. People with all the products are just going to be stuck. Not to mention, another company will go up a little more since another company leaves.
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I'm not worried about it. PCIe SSDs are only just starting to enter the consumer market. The new MacBook Airs use them, for example, and Mushkin just announced one (no info on pricing though). The SSD market doesn't have huge barriers to entry like mechanical HD's do. I'm sure in time that other manufacturers will fill the void left by OCZ, hopefully without the quality control and ethics issues.
 
I have never liked OCZ, not a damn thing they have ever made screamed quality to me. Sort of like Thermaltake and their horrible products. I had a customer come to me with his "Gaming Rig" It consisted of a Thermaltake ricer case and something like an AMD CPU, Biostar mobo, OCZ memory, OCZ SSD, PCP&C PSU, and I think a Inno3D videocard or something. He was stationed in Germany when he built it and wanted recommendations on upgrades.

I told him to throw it in the trash.

PC Power and Cooling used to be the premier PSU company back in 2005 or so but after OCZ got their hands on them they skyrocketed downhill.

I hope they go out of business and no one buys any of their products at 50% off. I'd rather buy PC parts from Kmart.
 
Never owned an OCZ product. Probably because they at least used to a be company that just took some other companies product and slapped their sticker on it.
 
I second that this is bad.
The company might have put out a lot of bad products and I never bought any of them, but they did a lot for the tech space.

OCZ is mainly a marketing company, but they did influence the manufacturers that sourced them along with pricing in the general market.
 
First SSD was a Vertex 2. Still have it running today no problems so far. Even if it did go dead its been 2 years and I can deal with that, gives me a reason to get the 840 Pro.
 
///AMG said:
First SSD was a Vertex 2. Still have it running today no problems so far. Even if it did go dead its been 2 years and I can deal with that, gives me a reason to get the 840 Pro.
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Yes but is it the Solid 34nm Vertex 2, or the craptastic 25nm Vertex 2e? I'm pretty sure you simply lucked out and got the good model. I on the other hand got one of each and my "E" model died a horrible death before 1 year was up. Not only that, but the E model dosent have the reset jumpers on it anymore to fix it like the original model did.
 
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I remember 8-ish years ago when OCZ was the way to go for RAM. Since then I used OCZ for DDR RAM on my P4 build, used it on my brothers AMD Athlon build, used a 2GB DDR400 kit for my Core2Duo rig (it was nice and shiny).
How the mighty have fallen.
 
I have 2 OCZ SSD's (agility 2, Vertex 3) both working just fine, as well as a bunch of OCZ DDR3. That said, the company has clearly had a lot of issues. They've got a history of building themselves up, then tearing themselves right back down. I still remember the days when OCZ was a great RAM manufacturer... and then how they became a pariah in the marketplace. They were barely saved because of their SSD's and PSU division. Still, I don't think them shooting themselves in the foot is the real root cause of all this. As someone mentioned in this thread, they just can't compete with the efficiencies of the big companies that manufacturer their own NAND. Once those companies decided that they could make more money selling SSD's using their own NAND at cost rather than reselling to OCZ, it was pretty much all over.
 
Pecka said:
Never owned an OCZ product. Probably because they at least used to a be company that just took some other companies product and slapped their sticker on it.
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Many companies do that, especially in the PSU and memory industry, which are the two industries OCZ has built its businesses around. Except they slap their sticker on the low quality stuff and try to market it as something better, the complete opposite of their first rival, Corsair.

The NASDAQ has given OCZ till September 16, 2013[11] to file its delayed earnings. Currently the company is several quarters late in filing and will also restate five quarters of past earnings. Several shareholder lawsuits[12] are currrently pending revolving around questionable accounting practices..
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Jeez..
 
shame to see a company like this go down, it's always nice to have more competition in the marketplace to encourage innovation and competitive pricing. i don't think the RAM or SSD markets would be the same without them, regardless of their perceived reliability.
 
AeonF1 said:
Many companies do that, especially in the PSU and memory industry, which are the two industries OCZ has built its businesses around. Except they slap their sticker on the low quality stuff and try to market it as something better, the complete opposite of their first rival, Corsair
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That sums up what I think of companies like OCZ. People say the more competition, the better, but not when the market is overflooded with crap products.
 
Man back in the day I used an Athlon 2500+ and an Abit Nf7-s 2.0 and OCZ ram and that little OCZ memory booster card OCZ made to be the first overclocker to hit 500mhz FSB. That was some good stuff back in the day. Will always have that memory.

I do like reading all the super over opinionated crybaby comments all these guys who have no clue leave though.
 
M76 said:
This comes as a complete shock to me, I always thought OCZ to be a well respected company.
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Well, if you owned their products, you're probably satisfied to more or less degree.

If had owned their stock, you would be very dissatisfied.

That said, whether OCZ was respected or not is irrelavent to the fact the former CEO was a convicted felon. So, it's no wonder OCZ is where it is today.
 
I've owned ~12 OCZ SSDs over the past couple years and haven't had any issues with them. They offered great performance for decent prices. Also owned a couple OCZ PSUs that ran great for the time I had them.

I know they've had some questionable practices in the past (switching to 25nm NAND without saying anything) but I'll be sad to see them go. They had some cool ideas over the years like the budget single-stage they almost brought to market.
 
FRZ said:
Never had a problem with OCZ, had some RAM from them at different times and never really had an issue. But the recent bad rep probably put me off from going to them for SSDs

The one SSD I did have from OCZ was the Limited Edition with a crazy new controller from a new company called sandforce :p that this was bad ass
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I agree with AMG. I too have their initial sandforce based Vertex 2 still up & running. May be there might have been few compatibility issues earlier on which is still not nullified! Overall I have a strong belief that sandforce based SSDs are truly performance oriented stuffs & reliable too.
 
It couldn't happen to a more deserving company. Good riddance!
Now, if Plextor would follow OCZ, then it would be time to party!
 
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Exactly what basis do people even have to make comments like that, im so curious about the audacity.
 
Does no one remember a time when all OCZ could make was GPU heatsinks and memsinks lol
 
Pretty funny how all the OCZ hate is never first hand experiences. Makes you wonder how much of this is regurgitated astroturf.

I've owned over a dozen OCZ products over the past 10 years myself and never had an issue. By never had an issue let me specify - it performed within the parameters specified and provided equal or better performance to similar items sold by other manufactures. I'm not some content noob who has no idea what they're doing, and thinks just because it "works" means it's working as advertised. No, my OCZ stuff has always worked as advertised.

Cheaper price does not automatically mean inferior.
 
I've covered OCZ and the only thing holding the company up is the chance it gets taken over. I don't believe this will happen. What hurt it?
- ill-conceived rebate program
- products competing with itself
- poor quality (it was the controller, and users were loud about the problem)

Product isn't as bad as people say it is, but cash is running out and the company is running out of time.
 
Zomoa said:
Pretty funny how all the OCZ hate is never first hand experiences. Makes you wonder how much of this is regurgitated astroturf.

I've owned over a dozen OCZ products over the past 10 years myself and never had an issue. By never had an issue let me specify - it performed within the parameters specified and provided equal or better performance to similar items sold by other manufactures. I'm not some content noob who has no idea what they're doing, and thinks just because it "works" means it's working as advertised. No, my OCZ stuff has always worked as advertised.

Cheaper price does not automatically mean inferior.
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+1

I have used OCZ for pretty much all my memory (RAM and SSDs) for quite some time and always got the best support from them. Most of the hate I have heard comes from people who either 1) did not use OCZ products or 2) never even tried contacting OCZ support for their problems. I am amazed at how many people spew hate at companies without even trying to get support from them. I was an early adopter SSD owner from OCZ. I had some pretty significant issues with my first SSD from them. The head of their SSD engineering department picked up my ticket out of the blue, personally contacted me, had me ship it directly to him, he flashed it and did extensive testing before sending it back. Once I got it back, zero problems since, and it was much faster too. I still use that SSD today. I have had similar experiences with their RAM department. I had issues with some RAM that ended up not being 'fully' compatible with one of my motherboards. And by fully, I mean the issue was really with the MB not being able to run 4 banks of the RAM at the higher clock speed, even though the MB listed it as compatible RAM. OCZ replaced my RAM for free with compatible RAM and gave me credit for the difference in price. So even when the problem was not their own they still went above and beyond. Personally I think some of their issues stem from being too nice to customers initially.
 
I do have 2 Revordrives and never had a single problem (one in my gaming rig and the other in my cloud server)
 
7th Angel said:
It couldn't happen to a more deserving company. Good riddance!
Now, if Plextor would follow OCZ, then it would be time to party!
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What is wrong with Plextor? Last I heard they have great performance/reliability.....I got my M5P 256gb for $200 each on Christmas and they are still running perfectly in Raid.
 
xIronCrossx said:
What is wrong with Plextor? Last I heard they have great performance/reliability.....I got my M5P 256gb for $200 each on Christmas and they are still running perfectly in Raid.
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Ya everyone likes Plextor.
 
I remember back in the day when OCZ operated out of the basement of a house. I purchased from them an overclocked AMD T-Bird that didn't even come close to the speed that they sold it as.

They finally gave me a discount on the cpu but would not give me a refund. I avoided them like the plague after that and always felt sorry for people who bought into their hype.
 
Zomoa said:
Pretty funny how all the OCZ hate is never first hand experiences. Makes you wonder how much of this is regurgitated astroturf.

I've owned over a dozen OCZ products over the past 10 years myself and never had an issue. By never had an issue let me specify - it performed within the parameters specified and provided equal or better performance to similar items sold by other manufactures. I'm not some content noob who has no idea what they're doing, and thinks just because it "works" means it's working as advertised. No, my OCZ stuff has always worked as advertised.

Cheaper price does not automatically mean inferior.
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Lets see, I experienced random data corruption issues with my original Vertex. It was a known issue with the firmware 1.5 iirc. That was one big issue with OCZ SSDs. They didn't test the firmware anywhere near enough before release.

Before that I had some OCZ ram. I had some old DDR2 1066 sticks. I later picked up another kit, exact same model number. It required a slightly different voltage. I'm sure that the two kits used different ICs. The two kits did not play well with each other at all. I eventually switched to some GSkill ram and never had an issue.
 
Just had to rma a OCZ ssd. Rma went through very fast, shipped it off yesterday. Will see what happens now on the return. This will be the 3rd rma on this model. Perhaps they will send me a different model back? I just use it for a os in a laptop. Nothing major but getting tired of the random dying act from this model. Will update when it gets back.
 
MacLeod said:
I think this sucks. I'm no real fan of OCZ but I am a big fan of this hobby and when PC sales are circling the drain, it isn't good for us when companies like OCZ that cater to the enthusiast market go tits up. Even if they are to blame, we need the companies that build our toys to flourish and OCZ is one of the bigger names out there.
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Agreed. I'm not a OCZ fan as well but I couldn't resist a $60 after rebates. Its never failed me once.
 
HardUp4HardWare said:
Everybody hates OCZ but I have had nothing but great experiences with the OCZ products I own.
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Actually everyone loved them, then their memory, i beleive DDR2 end and start of DDR3 went to crap, their support and warranties weren't honored or met and then their first line of SSD's i recall were flaky as all crap
 
The last OCZ product I've bought is their Agility 2 SSD which has been working fine atm *crossfingers* inside my netbook. I have numerous DDR and DDR2 ram modules from them and they are all working fine. My question is why they got out from the RAM making business in the first place..
 
This is the same model I just sent in for a RMA for the third time. Hopefully it doesn't fail on you like mine did.

2k3eblade said:
The last OCZ product I've bought is their Agility 2 SSD which has been working fine atm *crossfingers* inside my netbook. I have numerous DDR and DDR2 ram modules from them and they are all working fine. My question is why they got out from the RAM making business in the first place..
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xIronCrossx said:
What is wrong with Plextor? Last I heard they have great performance/reliability.....I got my M5P 256gb for $200 each on Christmas and they are still running perfectly in Raid.
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I'm not referring to the quality/performance/reliability of their SSD drives, I was referring to them as a company. I, and several of my coworkers, had problems with their DVD burners. Their grossly overpriced DVD burners were absolute garbage, and their customer service was non-existent. Their SSDs might be great, and hopefully you'll never have a problem with them.

I won't ever trust their products again...
 
7th Angel said:
I'm not referring to the quality/performance/reliability of their SSD drives, I was referring to them as a company. I, and several of my coworkers, had problems with their DVD burners. Their grossly overpriced DVD burners were absolute garbage, and their customer service was non-existent. Their SSDs might be great, and hopefully you'll never have a problem with them.

I won't ever trust their products again...
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I had one of their external dvd burners 6 or so years ago. Read reviews and they were great, I was ok with the price for what was supposed to be a high quality drive. It never wrote at anywhere near rated speeds and was just so slow. It broke after a year too.
 
Never been impressed with any of their products really.
 
I had 7 of 12 Vertex 3 drives fail on me about a year ago.

I'm still using a couple of them as a swap drive, but I've never been more pissed off at hardware than at OCZ stuff.

I switched over to Intel SSD's and they are rock-solid. Not looking back.
 
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