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SSD maker OCZ declares bankruptcy, has offer from Toshiba for assets
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article published on 27 November, 2013
SSD hard drive maker OCZ Technology Group has announced bankruptcy, also confirming it has received an offer from Toshiba to buy the company's remaining assets.
OCZ had a market value of $43 million before the news but the company's stock fell 75 percent, leaving it with a capitalization of just $11 million.
The company will file its official bankruptcy after completing the asset purchase ... [ read the full article ]
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mukhis
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27. November 2013 @ 23:23 |
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sad to know that. i have an OCZ SSD, and it performs very good.
ASUS G73JW | Intel Core i7-740QM, 1.73GHz | 8GB DDR3 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 460M, 1.5GB | OCZ 120GB SSD + Seagate 500GB Hybrid 7200rpm | 17.3" FHD/3D | Blu-ray Write | Win7Pro64
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27. November 2013 @ 23:58 |
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Well that stinks.. My current PC has OCZ Ram (got it right before they stopped making it) and has an OCZ Vertex 4 SSD. I was a fan of them.
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28. November 2013 @ 03:49 |
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Yea I have a 120GB OCZ Vertex 3 SSD and its been great over the past year. Was only $50 too.
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28. November 2013 @ 07:22 |
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I wonder how warranty coverage will be honoured.
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28. November 2013 @ 09:27 |
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Wow this sucks!
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29. November 2013 @ 09:26 |
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This is bad news. I thought they were popular.
Its a lot easier being righteous than right.
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29. November 2013 @ 09:51 |
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Toshiba will honor the warranties I'm sure but this was no surprise coming as OCZ's SSD's are the worst in the industry with no exceptions. If you have a good one consider yourself lucky and good for you. Now although Toshiba makes a great laptop their hard drives are not the best so will they make a better SSD or will this be a bad venture? Time will tell I guess. I'm hoping they do well but again we will see.
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29. November 2013 @ 11:09 |
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Well, I have moved on from OCZ myself. But I can't agree with you about Toshiba laptops. I'd had heaps of problems with them. Time was they were great but nowadays.
Its a lot easier being righteous than right.
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29. November 2013 @ 16:13 |
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Originally posted by Jemborg:
Well, I have moved on from OCZ myself. But I can't agree with you about Toshiba laptops. I'd had heaps of problems with them. Time was they were great but nowadays.
I have not bought a Toshiba in a few years so I certainly wouldn't argue that point but is good to know as I will steer clear if they are now problematic. Good to know...
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30. November 2013 @ 01:18 |
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Originally posted by Mr-Movies:
Originally posted by Jemborg:
Well, I have moved on from OCZ myself. But I can't agree with you about Toshiba laptops. I'd had heaps of problems with them. Time was they were great but nowadays.
I have not bought a Toshiba in a few years so I certainly wouldn't argue that point but is good to know as I will steer clear if they are now problematic. Good to know...
As an alternative, if you're shopping, check out what Lenovo's got on offer.
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30. November 2013 @ 07:05 |
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Originally posted by Jemborg:
Originally posted by Mr-Movies:
Originally posted by Jemborg:
Well, I have moved on from OCZ myself. But I can't agree with you about Toshiba laptops. I'd had heaps of problems with them. Time was they were great but nowadays.
I have not bought a Toshiba in a few years so I certainly wouldn't argue that point but is good to know as I will steer clear if they are now problematic. Good to know...
As an alternative, if you're shopping, check out what Lenovo's got on offer.
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Yes, I've got Lenovo's recently and they are solid notebooks. When they were first taken over from IBM some models, not all, were questionable but all-in-all now they are very good laptops.
I've also had fantastic luck with Acer for laptops, in fact all of the many Acer's I've had can accept a second SATA SSD or M-SATA port for an extra drive and even on some of their less expensive notebooks you can still use up to 16GB of RAM which is real nice for someone like me who uses bloatware like Creative Suite 6 Design and Web Premium plus Lightroom 5.2 among other stuff like video reproduction tools. RAM is my friend on my desktops I like to have 32GB or better depending on the platform as I use virtual drives too sometimes.
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30. November 2013 @ 11:51 |
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I've had the impression lately that Acer had picked up their game. If you find them reliable I'll keep them in mind too.
If your doing video, yeah, you'd want lots of ram. Conversely, I built a gaming rig for someone with only 8 gig in it the other day... it was 2400mhz cas 10 RAM though. :)
Its a lot easier being righteous than right.
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30. November 2013 @ 13:02 |
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This is for all the doubters of Toshiba memory products. I have with me 4 32 mb Toshiba made SD cards (supplied by Casio) which I use as replacement for bootable floppy disks, mainly to install boot managers. Also use if for Stinger antivirus tool. I have had these for more than 15 years now and have ha more than 100o insertions into readers as well as hundreds of writes and rewrites. Till date these have n=been the most reliable cards I have used, bar none.
I don't know who the real manufacturer of Toshiba HDD is but many might be surprised to learn that quantum drives, certain range, were made by Panasonic who never sold any under their own brand.
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30. November 2013 @ 18:01 |
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Originally posted by Jemborg:
I've had the impression lately that Acer had picked up their game. If you find them reliable I'll keep them in mind too.
If your doing video, yeah, you'd want lots of ram. Conversely, I built a gaming rig for someone with only 8 gig in it the other day... it was 2400mhz cas 10 RAM though. :)
Yes for gaming it is more important to go with very fast RAM and 8 gig is perfect, but you don't need as much since your video card will be the main work horse, a 2GB or larger video card makes a huge performance break as well as of course more cuda cores or streams depending.
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1. December 2013 @ 02:30 |
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Originally posted by Mr-Movies:
Originally posted by Jemborg:
I've had the impression lately that Acer had picked up their game. If you find them reliable I'll keep them in mind too.
If your doing video, yeah, you'd want lots of ram. Conversely, I built a gaming rig for someone with only 8 gig in it the other day... it was 2400mhz cas 10 RAM though. :)
Yes for gaming it is more important to go with very fast RAM and 8 gig is perfect, but you don't need as much since your video card will be the main work horse, a 2GB or larger video card makes a huge performance break as well as of course more cuda cores or streams depending.
This rig only has a couple of 780s in it.
:P
Its a lot easier being righteous than right.
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Zilog Z80 CPU, 32KB RAM (16K+16K cartridge), video processor 6847, 2KB video RAM, 16 colours (text mode), 5.25" FDD
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1. December 2013 @ 11:42 |
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Originally posted by Jemborg:
Originally posted by Mr-Movies:
Originally posted by Jemborg:
I've had the impression lately that Acer had picked up their game. If you find them reliable I'll keep them in mind too.
If your doing video, yeah, you'd want lots of ram. Conversely, I built a gaming rig for someone with only 8 gig in it the other day... it was 2400mhz cas 10 RAM though. :)
Yes for gaming it is more important to go with very fast RAM and 8 gig is perfect, but you don't need as much since your video card will be the main work horse, a 2GB or larger video card makes a huge performance break as well as of course more cuda cores or streams depending.
This rig only has a couple of 780s in it. :P
ONLY! Sweet, very nice.....
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1. December 2013 @ 13:08 |
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It gets worse than that... And all crammed into a this box!
It's my finest work to date. The modding etc... "Fully sick man" :). Thinking of doing a breakdown on YouTube.
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2. December 2013 @ 10:34 |
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Nice,I too am working smaller as well these days, you just don't need a huge case for most projects.
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3. December 2013 @ 14:32 |
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Originally posted by Mr-Movies:
Nice,I too am working smaller as well these days, you just don't need a huge case for most projects.
Nothing that a drill and a soldering iron can't handle!
Let us know about your next micro project, we might exchange ideas.
The above rig is a 3rd gen board (Z77)! I just managed to score it b4 the move to 4th gen. The Z87 mATX boards do not SLI in a micro box (side by side 2-slot stock cards). You have to go to a X79 (socket 2011pin) mATX for that config now.
So, I suppose to keep this tread on track... apart from a 3T Barracuda HDD for data that rig supports a 128GB Sammy 840 pro for the system and a 500GB Sammy Evo purely for game installation.
Its a lot easier being righteous than right.
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3. December 2013 @ 22:03 |
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The Sammy 840 is a great SSD and that make sense that the X79 would be the way to go. Great input Jemborg thank you much!
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4. December 2013 @ 02:05 |
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Actually the 500gb Evo probably tops the 840, at least in read.... unless you mean the 840 PRO MM. There's a difference... strange labelling, don't you think? The Evo is great bang-for-buck anyway.
If you did go for the X79 then for a gaming rig the i7-4820K would be perfect. Four cores are plenty. Turn the hyperthreading off too... it just gets in the way imo.
Old board but updated cpus:
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/RAMPAGE_IV_GENE/#overview
http://ark.intel.com/products/77781
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4. December 2013 @ 05:34 |
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Oh yeah MM, I want to ask your opinion on something. Gaming PC... large page file or small one?.
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4. December 2013 @ 07:05 |
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Yes, I agree with you on the EVO but you are correct I was thinking the Pro definitely.
I actually turn off the page file these days even with the use of graphical editing but especially for gaming it just isn't needed and can actually slow your system down. I thought it would cause issues with all of the bloatware I use but in fact it hasn't and I don't have to worry about tweaking it from time-to-time when using multiple programs at once. The big plus is you add 30GB of usable HDD space by turning it off, or at least I do with my usage.
The ASUS Rampage IV Gene is the route to go for a mATX, there are some people I converse with though that won't touch an ASUS board but I'm not one of them and that processor can be pushed to 5GHz pretty easily so that would make a lethal combination on top of two or three super video cards.
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4. December 2013 @ 11:03 |
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Sigh... every brand has let me down at some point. At least with that ASUS mobo it's been out for a while and a bit of online research will tell you if it's unreliable by now. Plus, if "You get what you pay for" is anything to go by... well, that mofo ain't cheap. :)
If someone thinks that there's a better one then goodo. That rig's above was an ASRock Z77 Extreme4-M with a OCed i5-3570k. Not at all shabby for it's pricing... the punter had to draw the line somewhere so he invested in the 780s. Perhaps I should have persuaded him to go the extra mile. He's just running a 1080p projector lol. He'll graduate to a 4k projector one of these days maybe. Heh. He'll be ok.
I've been compromising, leaving a fixed non-managed 400mb page file for precaution. It's really interesting you just turn it off. The Sammy SSD software wanted to make a huge pagefile under a related "Performance" OS profile and it made me wonder if I missed something. I consider page filing a hangover from when ram wasn't as plentiful and it perplexes me why Windows still insists on a lot of it by default. More ram should mean less of it not more right?.... or am I in topsy-turvy land?
What sort of cooling would you use with that 5GHz OC on the 4820k in a mATX case?
Its a lot easier being righteous than right.
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Zilog Z80 CPU, 32KB RAM (16K+16K cartridge), video processor 6847, 2KB video RAM, 16 colours (text mode), 5.25" FDD
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4. December 2013 @ 18:55 |
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