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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 so
by jwr 13y ago
> 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. Then you would go and purchase the exact specific type that the reviewer had — and the hardware inside would be different (inferior). There was no way to check this without opening the drive up or measuring with benchmarks.
This was the moment I decided I would never buy anything from OCZ, as I can't do business with a company that lies to me. I am glad they are going away.
- jrs235 13y agoSounds like what Packard Bell computers did. They were inexpensive. And if you bought two of the same model and opened them up you'd see different components. Different modems, ram, etc.
- ChikkaChiChi 13y agoThe problem here though is that they were shipping off their spicier models to review, while the shrink wrapped version you would buy was off-spec.
- _pmf_ 13y agoApple does the same with its display manufacturers.
- AshleysBrain 13y agoTheir 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 an OCZ drive any day - been using one in my main dev desktop for a while now and it's kept up just fine. Surprised it's not Crucial going under after that experience.
- prirun 13y agoI 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.