More OCZ bad news?

[Eug]

It seems pretty clear to me that OCZ had no real reliable QA system in place. Given that, it's almost laughable that they're even considering a shot at enterprise. You would have to be an absolute moron to use their products in a mission critical environment, given their horrible track record.

Unless they pull off a miracle, basically the company is dead, which is fine by me because they deserve to be dead.

 

[Imp]

Only time I ever bought an OCZ product (twin sticks of RAM), one stick was defective and I exchanged them for G.Skill -- been happy since and this was years ago. From the sounds of things, my experience wasn't quite isolated and things haven't gotten much better.

 

[RaistlinZ]

No issues with my 120GB Vertex 2.

 

[yukit]

No issues with my 120GB Vertex 2.

I have been using a 120GB Vertex2 3.5 SSD as a boot drive for about 1.5 years without any issues.

Lately my system would not recognize the drive on boot. I can get the system to eventually boot if I disconnect the power to the SSD, then wait a few minutes before reconnecting the cables.

I wasn't sure if this was a MB or SSD issue, so I replaced the SSD with an old IDE drive. The system is working flawlessly (although the booting time is painful) now.

I am in a process of RMA.

 

[cytg111]

I wouldn't be running seven (7!) OCZ Vertex 4's in my primary home PC if I bought into the OCZ negativity prevalent on these forums. Fortunately, I'm able to see past it and purchase my hardware based on individual product merrits.

I dont know who pays your bills, but seriously, facts! even intels sandforge drive had reproducible problems.. stating otherwise is just ... nuts ... and even sadder, your attempt at rewriting history is.... just plz stop.

 

[AdamK47]

I dont know who pays your bills, but seriously, facts! even intels sandforge drive had reproducible problems.. stating otherwise is just ... nuts ... and even sadder, your attempt at rewriting history is.... just plz stop.

Are you quoting the right post?

 

[Goros]

I love my OCZ Vertex drives.

I have 4 in my PC currently and one in my wife's, all working perfectly (but I admit, I did have to flash firmware, set up windows in very specific ways, and monitor them more than anyone would want).

I have in my PC - v4 256gb (OS), v3 120gb, v2 120gb, v2 40gb and my wife's PC runs a v2 40gb for XP OS. My v2's were all in my 790i Ultra SLi rig, and moved into my 3770 Ivy Bridge build and my wife's PC after I pulled it apart.

Sandforce created some unique setup and maintenance issues but I watched as everyone had issues and failures with v2 and v3 drives while I just coasted on without issue because I did what they told us to do to avoid the problems.

RyderOCZ me&er and Tony on OCZ's forums are good peeps and work with you at the drop of a hat, RMA's and all.

The less technically proficient were really the ones who suffered from OCZ's "bleeding edge" tech development, and people wanted plug and play and instead got plug and unplug, and plug and update and rma and plug again and pray.

 

[JellyRoll]

LOL. How dare consumers expect something to just work?
Fiascos such as the whole OCZ experience with SF just hampered the mass proliferation of SSDs. Customers are pesky....they want to buy something and not have to spend hours digging through voodoo rituals over at OCZ forums, only to be blatantly insulted by OCZ reps and their forum 'beta testers' (a.k.a henchmen).
I cannot count the number of threads over there that ended with OCZ shills attacking innocent customers who just wanted their SSD to work, with no sanctions from the OCZ mods.

 

[Puddle Jumper]

I don't see how OCZ expects to succeed in the enterprise market, they don't have a reputation for quality and no one purchasing SSDs for their servers cares how 1337 they are or if if they will help you pwn n00bs at Crysis 3.

 

[sm625]

Yep they screwed me over bad. No one in their right mind would buy them. I wouldnt buy an OCZ 120GB SSD even if it was $30. It's just not worth the risk. I have a failed unit that I wont even bother to RMA because what is the point? I know it is going to fail again in a few weeks or months. Really, what is the point? That inventory writedown is likely too conservative. Out of $100 million in inventory it might only be worth $10-$20. They are still thinking its worth $50 million. Haha the joke is on them.

 

[Goros]

Again - I never had an issue with anything they sold me, ever. I even had some memory from them that RMA'd on my old 790i and never had problems with their service.

I also spent HOURS tweaking and making sure everything was just right to make sure the drives worked correctly, so probably shame on me.

I'm ok with being an unpaid beta tester because it taught me a lot about how the memory controller and sata controllers worked, both hardware and via windows.

Not perfect by any means, but I was always happy.

 

[Hallo32]

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[yefi]

It taught me a lot about how the memory controller and sata controllers worked, both hardware and via windows.

They should put that testimonial on the boxes. They'll be flying off the shelves.

 

[MrX8503]

They screwed up bad with their initial Vertex line. When you screw up that bad, people aren't going to give you another chance.

 

[randomrogue]

LOL. How dare consumers expect something to just work?
Fiascos such as the whole OCZ experience with SF just hampered the mass proliferation of SSDs. Customers are pesky....they want to buy something and not have to spend hours digging through voodoo rituals over at OCZ forums, only to be blatantly insulted by OCZ reps and their forum 'beta testers' (a.k.a henchmen).
I cannot count the number of threads over there that ended with OCZ shills attacking innocent customers who just wanted their SSD to work, with no sanctions from the OCZ mods.

This.

Their products were shit. When their products went to shit they were incredibly rude on their forums. I recall them trying to deny RMA's and they ultimately only allowing an exchange for the same piece of shit product. Luckily for me Newegg has good service sense and made exception to their no-return policy.

Here's the thing. When you screw a customer the way OCZ did you lose them forever. Not only did their products die but the company mislead us about their speeds. Mine was half the rated speed since they had swapped components without telling us. OCZ has been having to rely on new customers since then. Meanwhile I have bought multiple hard drives and other components from their competitors instead.

This company deserves to die and if you believe in any form of capitalism it should. I'm surprised they lasted this long but from the sounds of it they've been running on fumes for a while.

 

[bradley]

I wouldn't use an OCZ SSD as my primary drive, even if it were encased in translucent plastic.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Well ocz is the reason I run samsung lol.

 

[groberts101]

Dannggg!.. I better sell all my SSD's made by them before I need to do an RMA, eh?

Because murphy's law will surely kick in when they go "tit's up" and all my R0 arrays will suddenly fail after years of trouble free service. :twisted:

And that source is SOOOO credible too! I just can't believe all the other mainstream media is so far behind with all those "quoted" bombshell's. Sounds like it's come down to just a matter of days now. :hmm:

Maybe if we're lucky.. Intel will buy them up and take a year longer than everyone else to validate the firmware(no.. it's never been related to their drivers/sata power mgmt implementations) and suddenly lower their prices(like they always have) though. Always a silver lining if you look hard enough.

 

[Whitestar127]

I wouldn't use an OCZ SSD as my primary drive, even if it were encased in translucent plastic.

I'm using a Vertex as my primary AND secondary drive. I have problems with the secondary now. Trying to update the firmware, but the firmware update process is a GIGANTIC pain in the @ss.

 

[bradley]

Dannggg!.. I better sell all my SSD's made by them before I need to do an RMA, eh?

While you aren't an Intel engineer reselling test CPUs on Ebay , aren't you forbidden from reselling those freebie test drives?

 

[Phynaz]

Dannggg!.. I better sell all my SSD's made by them before I need to do an RMA, eh?

Maybe you should, with their ongoing quality problems.

 

[JellyRoll]

Lol. Still hanging onto driver issues and power management? Even after it has been publicly acknowledged that it was a internal bug of the SF controllers, after SF themselves announced it?
That was a red herring by OCZ to remove blame from themselves. Amazing some are still blathering about it.


...and questioning the source of the comments?? They are from OCZs new CEO, read the transcript of their earnings calls....

 

[Zap]

That link sucks! To read more than page 1 insists on "registration," . . . not nice!

I was still able to read it. I just ignored the register box, and the rest of the article was dimmed but legible.

 

[randomrogue]

Dannggg!.. I better sell all my SSD's made by them before I need to do an RMA, eh?

Because murphy's law will surely kick in when they go "tit's up" and all my R0 arrays will suddenly fail after years of trouble free service. :twisted:

And that source is SOOOO credible too! I just can't believe all the other mainstream media is so far behind with all those "quoted" bombshell's. Sounds like it's come down to just a matter of days now. :hmm:

Maybe if we're lucky.. Intel will buy them up and take a year longer than everyone else to validate the firmware(no.. it's never been related to their drivers/sata power mgmt implementations) and suddenly lower their prices(like they always have) though. Always a silver lining if you look hard enough.

Very mature.

 

[ss284]

Groberts has been passionately defending OCZ since they first started selling SSDs. I would be upset too if my favorite company was failing the market.

The funny thing is that I remember when OCZ first began selling rebadged, low quality, overvolted ram like 10 years ago. Their QA process seems to have finally improved but it might be too little too late.