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> They lied to their customers by selling hardware under the same name as previously produced hardware with cheaper components and lesser specs I was hoping someone would bring this up. When shopping around for SSD drives a year or so ago, I stumbled upon stories about this and simply couldn't believe that a company would do something like that. Basically, you'd read some reviews (with benchmarks) about OCZ drives. T…
Their drives were better than Crucial. I had a Crucial SSD that due to a firmware bug became unusably slow (far slower than a mechanical drive) after a couple of months. They released a firmware update that supposedly fixed it (which also required tweaking BIOS settings and booting in to a weird minimal version of Windows 95 - in 2013...), but it only made it slightly better, still a totally useless drive. I'd take a…
Re: Once-great SSD manufacturer OCZ filing for bankruptcy
#91I bought 2x4GB new Crucial memory sticks to upgrade a Mac this year, and they failed memtest. They are no longer a premium brand IMO. Replaced them with used Kingstons from eBay. No problems.