Not to be confused with OWC... SSD Competitor OCZ is history

[OWC Larry]

OCZ effectively gone... Toshiba buying assets/made offer there for - but not stepping in. That suggests that no warranty for customers with OCZ product now as well.

http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily...hoobarrons&ru=yahoo

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/2...GF20131127

[hal]

You probably can't say it, but I will... there is something very sleazy about that company.

I swear the first time I saw them, they were selling RAM (during the ever decreasing prices days) on ebay. Their listings were cheezy as hell - I swear they used something like TypeStyler for the text. I was sure that it was a one man operation.

They sold generic memory then suddenly became a major SSD player.

Go on Larry.... I bet you know some juicy gossip...

[M A V I C]

IIRC, they've been bought and sold multiple times. I doubt we've heard the last from them.

[OWC Larry]

Actually - they went bankrupt before, taken private off the stock market... Before going public again to raise a few hundred million...

This is different

[pdq]

I saw a good deal on one of their SSD's the other day.

Now, I'm thinkin it maybe wasn't such a good deal...

[space-time]

OWC Larry wrote:
Actually - they went bankrupt before, taken private off the stock market... Before going public again to raise a few hundred million...

This is different

Seems like a legal method to scam people of hundreds of millions.

[M A V I C]

OWC Larry wrote:
Actually - they went bankrupt before, taken private off the stock market... Before going public again to raise a few hundred million...

This is different

You probably know their history better than I.

[MrNoBody]

Looks like Newegg is running a fire sale on "Refurbished" OCZ SSD's :terror:

[Black]

OCZ’s business has been crumbling for over a year now, in part because of a lack of adequate supply of flash memory chips with which to produce its products.
Big boys sucking up all the NAND and knocking out the smaller players?
When Wal-Mart does it it's evil....

[OWC Larry]

That's not quite the real story.... not at all. It's a nice story line though. NAND supply isn't why they had to restate multiple years of reported financials, for example... and perhaps, if they paid their suppliers they would have had less supply issues... their founder, who has fled the country a year ago, left them in shambles after... inaccuracies caught up and came to a head last September.

anyway.... it's a very competitive space, but it's not the big bad evil NAND sucker uppers that brought OCZ's demise upon them.

Black wrote:
OCZ’s business has been crumbling for over a year now, in part because of a lack of adequate supply of flash memory chips with which to produce its products.
Big boys sucking up all the NAND and knocking out the smaller players?
When Wal-Mart does it it's evil....