OCZ Technology's 2012 Fiscal Year Revenue Up 92%

Probably from not honouring there damn rebates.

jiojioie8I don't believe it. I think these are fake numbers. OCZ SSD drives are the worst on the market. It's not just SSD drives. They have a history of making bad quality products: bad power supply, bad RAM, and now bad SSD drives.
OCZ RAM isn't bad. OCZ doesn't make power supplies (although some cheap @$$ units are re-branded as OCZ and sure, they suck and OCZ should be embarrassed to put their name on the garbage). OCZ SSDs are not crap either. In fact, their Vertex 4 drives are some of the best on the market, especially best priced among the high end drives. Their Sandforce drives had some reliability issues, but that is true for most Sandforce based drives. There were simply more OCZ drives than other branded drives, so they got the most publicity for it.

For example on the RAM, I still have a dual channel OCZ Gold kit from seven years ago in one of my older PCs and it works just fine. The heat sinks also do a great job of getting the heat of of the ICs. Oh sure one example is not enough to prove that it wasn't crap, but I've heard more complaints about Kingston RAM than OCZ and that's a better example.

9365614 said:

OCZ RAM isn't bad. OCZ doesn't make power supplies (although some cheap @$$ units are re-branded as OCZ). OCZ SSDs are not crap either. In fact, their Vertex 4 drives are some of the best on the market, especially best priced among the high end drives. Their Sandforce drives had some reliability issues, but that is true for most Sandforce based drives. There were simply more OCZ drives than other branded drives, so they got the most publicity for it.

You are right, the ram isn't "bad" they just managed to screw over the end user by selling these ram sticks and then causing motherboard manufacturers to force a higher stock voltage through the motherboard for all sticks of ram. I was unlucky enough to pick up a Gigabyte mobo with that exact problem because of some shitty designing and poor managing.

Move on to their psus where the only 2 worth giving a 2nd thought about are the ZS/ZX models with the rest being less than lackluster with most causing issues/not meeting listed wattage.

Move over to their SSD market, where you can drive to Microcenter and see a bin of OCZ Agility 3 60gb SSDs like they are flea market SSDs. Their only 2 SSDs I have seen anyone bother mentioning are the Vertex 3 (after several firmware updates) and the newer Vertex 4 which JUST hit the market. Compare them to Crucial M4's, Corsair Force GT's, Mushkin Enhanced Chronos' when these 3 are consecutively cheaper than the rest of the market and there is no market for OCZ ssds besides people that want to wait half a year for $10 rebate on a OCZ Agility 3 crapper just to get told they no longer accept the rebate (out of date)

Probably one of my biggest tiffs with OCZ tech is that they have some of the worst customer support/rma service/rebate services.

9365620 said:

You are right, the ram isn't "bad" they just managed to screw over the end user by selling these ram sticks and then causing motherboard manufacturers to force a higher stock voltage through the motherboard for all sticks of ram. I was unlucky enough to pick up a Gigabyte mobo with that exact problem because of some shitty designing and poor managing.

Move on to their psus where the only 2 worth giving a 2nd thought about are the ZS/ZX models with the rest being less than lackluster with most causing issues/not meeting listed wattage.

Move over to their SSD market, where you can drive to Microcenter and see a bin of OCZ Agility 3 60gb SSDs like they are flea market SSDs. Their only 2 SSDs I have seen anyone bother mentioning are the Vertex 3 (after several firmware updates) and the newer Vertex 4 which JUST hit the market. Compare them to Crucial M4's, Corsair Force GT's, Mushkin Enhanced Chronos' when these 3 are consecutively cheaper than the rest of the market and there is no market for OCZ ssds besides people that want to wait half a year for $10 rebate on a OCZ Agility 3 crapper just to get told they no longer accept the rebate (out of date)

Probably one of my biggest tiffs with OCZ tech is that they have some of the worst customer support/rma service/rebate services.

OCZ doesn't make the PSUs (which I acknowledge as mostly bad). I said that most of OCZ's Sandforce drives (IE their older ones) had problems, but that they remedied the problems with their newer drives such as the Vertex 4. I did not say anything about OCZ's support/rebate service. I have had the pleasure of not dealing with them much.

I had no problem with the OCZ RAM and although I have heard of problems (the only two memory companies from whom I really never hear problems about for system RAM are Corsair and G.Skill), so long as you run the higher voltage, don't they work fine? Or does this cause damage to the north bridge or CPU? I just put them into my machine and they worked fine, so perhaps I was lucky.

Revenue is a great number to throw around and all but...

Net loss for Q4'12 was $10.9 million or $0.19 loss per share compared with a net loss of $9.3 million or $0.27 loss per share in Q4'11.

There's the one I care about as an investor.

9365631 said:

Revenue is a great number to throw around and all but...

Net loss for Q4'12 was $10.9 million or $0.19 loss per share compared with a net loss of $9.3 million or $0.27 loss per share in Q4'11.

There's the one I care about as an investor.

Good point, but increased revanue could mean that if they don't need to spend as much this year, they will increase profits greatly this year. OCZ spent a lot of money on R&D for several different SSD markets (not to mention anything else) and if they don't need to do that again but can keep revenue up to par with this number this year or even pass it, then this could be a great year for them. Let's wait and see.