OCZ products now have no warranties

[barnsley]

Bad news if you want to buy/own a OCZ product. Toshiba just canceled the warranties on the majority of the products. The products that will not have their warranty honored by Toshiba are:

• ALL Non-SSD Products
• Core Series
• Apex
• Petrol
• Octane Series
• Solid Series
• Colossus Series
• IBIS
• Enyo
• Nocti
• RevoDrive Hybrid
• Summit
• Synapse
• Onyx Series
• Solid Series
• OCZ SATA I SSD (1st gen)
• OCZ SATA II SSD (1st gen)

Notice how the majority of those products were their nasty, cheap, instakill ssds?

You're in luck (for the time being) if you own any of the Agility series SSDs as they are under warranty until Jan 22nd 2015. This is obviously not the three year guarantee that originally came with the SSDs but it gives you enough time to change them if you are worried.

Luckily for Vertex,Vector and Revodrive owners, Toshiba are going to continue the Warranty in full. I believe this is a good move by toshiba in the sense that those are the high end OCZ drives and also are the ones with the lower failure rate?

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Have you been affected? Are you not suprised by the move toshiba has made, especially considering both the Guv's experience with their power supplies and many forum members' issues?

 

[WYP]

Interesting, I'm very glad i sold my OCZ psu now.

It is a shame for the guys which are losing their warranties.

 

[Wraith]

Was going to say Doh! But seeing as I stripped my PSU three weeks ago to clean it never mind, going BeQuiet! or Corsair next

 

[cooperman]

This is not surprising to me in the slightest as anything OCZ turns to shit it will cost toshiba millions to honor all of OCZ'S mess ups.

 

[Mathius]

Bit of a kick in ballz, touch wood though the only thing I have that is OCZ is my Power Supply. OCZ MXSP600

which people keep mentioning that its made by seasonic or something...... either way so far it hasnt missed a beat......but I'm on the look out for a replacement.

meh..

 

[Sharcman]

Are they allowed to do that? Isn't it against the law or something to cut off guarantees without notice? If you buy a company you are also agreeing to take on it's debts too - I think warranties should be covered in that.

No sweat for me though, my 2 year old Vertex 2 is still covered.

 

[SieB]

Looks like they are covering their backs by ditching all warranties for anything OCZ prior to Toshiba buying them out.

It will be Toshiba who gets bad rep for all OCZ's failling products which they had no involvement in, so I can understand why they have done it.
Don't blame though to be honest, a wise business decision on their part.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Now hopefully Toshiba can turn things around and compete with some of the other big name companies.

 

[Wraith]

Are they allowed to do that? Isn't it against the law or something to cut off guarantees without notice? If you buy a company you are also agreeing to take on it's debts too - I think warranties should be covered in that.

No sweat for me though, my 2 year old Vertex 2 is still covered.

Unfortunately not. OCZ filed for bankruptsy and in doing so nullified warranties of most of it's products usually upto a set manufacture date, all Toshiba did was buy the name and their factories with remaining stock it's actually quite noble of Toshiba to carry on with some of the warranties I mean by rights they don't have to.

 

[barnsley]

Toshiba aren't going to honor the ssds with the higher failure rates as it could very much cause them to loose a lot of money. Toshiba's own ssds are excellent (I believe they use them in macbooks) and are really reliable. As I've said in the past, Toshiba have a chance to make OCZ take the fight to Samsung. At the moment samsung are top dogs for ssds imo.

 

[grassman]

I have the Vector 128GB, Such a piece of shit. The thing corrupts my Windows install every 4 months. Also I get a notification that asks me to install devices that have not been installed yet. If I choose to install it, It immediately slowly deteriorates my Windows Installation. In 1-2 days it is unbootable.

 

[SPS]

Haha at least they have some sense!

 

[WYP]

We need to remember here that OCZ is dead and Toshiba bought their assets, not the company or liabilities.

Toshiba are being good guys here by even giving a warranty on anything TBH, they have no legal obligation to do so.

Told a housemate of mine last night that his psu is no longer under warranty, he isn't pleased, 3 years of remaining warranty is just gone. Hopefully this will finally convince him to replace it, I've already warned him enough.

 

[-Jim-]

my risk is almost nil...

I knew OCZ were in financial difficulties (Bankruptcy Protection at the end of November as I remember) and noticed everything with OCZ on it was getting severely marked down in my local PC shop. So I took a flyer on Boxing Day (December 26th is a huge shopping day here in Canada) on a Vertex 3 480GB SSD for $170.

I'd bought a smaller one a year or so earlier for my son's gamer box, and it's been perfect. So I thought the risk of failure would be very slim. So with Toshiba stepping up to the bar on warranty my risk is almost nil. ^_^

 

[Inkie_Squid]

I'm a little surprised tbh, I had an OCZ GameXStreem 850w PSU and never had a problem with it until it was about 4 years old, and it was so full of dust and muck that you could probably stuff a rather large (but not hygienic) duvet. I didn't get around to cleaning it out as I'd already replaced it with a Corsair AX 1200, but my friend cleaned it out and has been using it without issue for about 9 months.

It's that reason that I bought their Vertex 4 SSD - were their other products really so bad?

 

[Schern]

I've got some OCZ Reaper DDR2 memory (admittedly only got it on a whim because it was cheap in PC World) and an Agility 3 (for the same reason - on offer) and haven't had any issues with either of them so far. The RAM has to be 3 years old at least and the SSD is at least a year old. It's only used as a system drive though so even if it did fail it would be inconvenient but not the end of the world. Crystal Disk isn't showing any issues with it.

 

[realneil]

I have three OCZ SSDs here, two of them are over three years old. Never had any problems with any of them yet. (just lucky?) Now that Toshiba is running with their factories, expect good things in the future.

 

[Kaapstad]

It is good news about the RevoDrives, I have them in two of my PCs. The one in my 24/7 machine has been going solidly for the last two years, has never seen the trim command yet still runs a it's peak speed.

 

[NeverBackDown]

It is good news about the RevoDrives, I have them in two of my PCs. The one in my 24/7 machine has been going solidly for the last two years, has never seen the trim command yet still runs a it's peak speed.

Trim only runs in downtime.. as in the windows login screen.

 

[Kaapstad]

Trim only runs in downtime.. as in the windows login screen.

It does not run on a RevoDrive, as it is really 4 SSDs in RAID0 on a PCI-E card.

Old pic of my RevoDrive having a blast

I don't like using them now as they need to go into a PCI-E slot, they are also a bit slow booting up as the card needs to initialise but once they are up and running they are quite nippy.