Astronomer Posted October 19, 2013 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Posted October 19, 2013 "OCZ, one of the first commercial solid-state drive (SSD) makers has been blaming a shortage of NAND for its woes for some time now, but things have taken a precipitous turn for the worse: 'For its second fiscal quarter ended August 31, 2013, revenue was $33.5 million, a huge drop compared to revenue of $55.3 million for the first quarter of 2013 and revenue of $88.6 million for the second quarter of 2012. The net loss for this quarter was massive, $26 million, a doubling of the $13.1 million loss in the same quarter last year.' The company has burned through cash, its stock collapsed, and now so have sales. Meanwhile, other SSD makers are doing well. So what is happening here?" They had higher failure rates (north of 7% vs %.5 or so for Samsung and Intel, and apparently shitty customer service). I have one of their Vertex 4 128Gb SSD's as a boot drive and a 60Gb Vertex 3 as a cache drive. So far, no problems 12-18 months in respectively. Apparently, they've been sourcing parts from cheaper suppliers and pulling a few dirty tricks i.e. if a drive's I/O exceeds thresholds, there was a built-in limiter on some drives that would slow them down so they wouldn't fail before the warranty period was up. Tech support would recommend flashing the drive, and if it bricked, they'd say flashing the drive voided warranties. And on and on and on. Awards
Sammy Posted October 19, 2013 Member ID: 3036 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 219 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 9419 Content Per Day: 1.92 Reputation: 7515 Achievement Points: 62539 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 21 Joined: 11/29/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 17 Birthday: 04/26/2008 Device: Windows Posted October 19, 2013 You do something tech support tells you to, but will not honor a warranty if you do. Uh huh. Awards
LaRSin Posted October 19, 2013 Member ID: 45 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 69 Topic Count: 982 Topics Per Day: 0.17 Content Count: 9437 Content Per Day: 1.65 Reputation: 3738 Achievement Points: 68171 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 3 hours ago Birthday: 02/25/1951 Device: Windows Posted October 19, 2013 OCZ was my choice for ram , but then they started producing bad ram or sorcing it, The was the start of there downfall, When the enthusiust stop using it there sales droped , Then there's power supplis where bad , From what one of ther reps told me they where now going to concentrate on SSD drives, But the trust had all ready gone, plus the failure rate of there drives. I just stay a way from there products now. Awards
ChknFngr Posted October 19, 2013 Member ID: 922 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 72 Topic Count: 149 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 3472 Content Per Day: 0.62 Reputation: 1286 Achievement Points: 23224 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 12/23/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 16, 2021 Birthday: 10/01/1975 Posted October 19, 2013 i like them got 3 SSD from them and they all running great never had any problem with customer services either, they answered me quickly to every questions i had and always tried to help JohnnyQuest 1 Awards
TBC_Shaggy Posted October 20, 2013 Member ID: 3440 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 29 Topic Count: 4 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 106 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 83 Achievement Points: 812 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/13/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 26, 2018 Birthday: 02/12/1967 Posted October 20, 2013 I have used their Ram long ago (DDR) and it died. I have some now (DDR3 triple channel) and knock on wood it is still going great. They tried to branch into other markets as well with limited success such as Power supplies. One of our clan members has one, it died, both replacements were DOA. Their SSD branch was hyping all the glorious speed but had issues with the first gen Sandforce controllers and failures. They would likely need to liquidate some of these markets and focus more on quality if they want to turn around.
JohnnyQuest Posted October 20, 2013 Member ID: 1965 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 43 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1176 Content Per Day: 0.22 Reputation: 1082 Achievement Points: 8599 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 15, 2016 Birthday: 02/11/1969 Posted October 20, 2013 i have the 240 g vortex2 ...have had it for about three years now,fast and works great...had the power supply and it crapped out on me about five years ago..never bought another went to Corsair for ram and power..best warranties and all... Astronomer 1
7Toes Posted October 20, 2013 Member ID: 87 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 58 Topic Count: 98 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 3789 Content Per Day: 0.66 Reputation: 3589 Achievement Points: 27251 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18, 2022 Birthday: 04/02/1871 Posted October 20, 2013 its called greed will kill a company quicker than any thing,first place they cut cost is employees then they make the one they keep work 3 time faster and harder which takes out quality all together then comes cutting costs on materials get the cheapest they can then its a short trip to the bottom Awards
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