It's not hate. OCZ is a company- A Company's main goal is to make a profit.Originally Posted by Halk
I am a consumer, my main goal is to get the best product for a price that is fair to me.
As a consumer I have to make sure that a company is not selling me a product that doesn't live up to their marketing-
The OCZ core drive was a product that did NOT live up to their marketing. Not one word was mentioned about stuttering or having to tweak anything to have it operate as written on the box the drive came in. Not only did that waste my money, it wasted A LOT of my time, as I spent well over 60-70 hours working with OCZ to try and get them to work properly.
Now, I understand that SSD is a new technology, but their marketing did not mention 1 thing about incompatibilities with different motherboards and controllers. On the box it stated RAID Support, however they DID NOT work on my RAID controller- They actually became corrupt after a few days use, no matter what configuration they were in.
When I went to the OCZ forum, I was the first or second person to open a thread about the Core SSD drives. You won't see that thread now because they "moved" it. They had no idea about any of these issues that I was having with my drives. This angered me as it showed me that they DID NOT do any kind of thorough testing before releasing a very expensive product. As everyone now knows that it was a very common issue. All I got back from OCZ for a while was that they couldn't recreate the issue in the office, so in their eyes, there was no problem, it's just my system or faulty drives. Actually they didn't even have any drives to work with till about 3 weeks after my first post. I was the one who had to go out looking for a solution, thats when I found MFT and was extremely hopeful about it as I had a nice long talk with Sam Anderson at EasyCo and he helped me get MFT up and running for the first time on a Core drive. I brought it to Tony and Ryder's attention. But in the end, I still had corruption issues due to the drives themselves. I don't care if every other SSD has this issue, as a consumer I am appalled that any of the SSD companies would release a product without proper testing and quality assurance.
As consumers we should not accept this kind of practice from companies that want our hard earned money-
It all boils down to the company did not deliver on promises it made to me, the customer, and only after weeks of "beta" testing for OCZ did they make the situation right. They got their money's worth out of me and the other guys on that forum. I don't want other consumers out there getting taken for a quick buck- So yes, I am going to be hard on any company that touts their product as being great, because I don't want others to be blinded by slick marketing and great reviews.
You may feel like you can trust OCZ Forum employees, But you have to remember that they work for a company that is trying to make money off of our desire to have the best of the best. They make a living off of us purchasing their products- and I am fine with that, I understand completely- They also have to answer to someone about what they write on the forum. OCZ may do few things differently than other companies, and I do like some things about OCZ- But they are still a company selling a product.
I'm just here trying to make sure people make purchases they don't regret- Without people being a pain in the butt on the OCZ forum, Vertex would not be shipping with this new firmware- They would probably have released the Vertex with a different JMicron controller- or whatever was cheapest at the time.
Last thing... the X25-M is not that much more expensive than the Vertex. At launch, yes it was- but as of now, they are in the same price range. $30-40 is not a lot of money when you're talking about $200-300 drives that will be most likely put in pricey desktops- or of course laptops. So don't give me that crap about not being in the same category/class of drive-
Alright- I'm done... you asked Halk, that's why-
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