OCZ Technology was founded in 2000 by Ryan Petersen as "The Overclockerz Store," an online hardware reseller that catered to computer enthusiasts. The company started out selling binned processors and memory kits capable of running faster than their rated speeds - items which overclockers were willing to pay a premium for.
Eventually, Petersen parlayed the store's success into a mainstream PC component business, which became OCZ Technology. The San Jose-based firm rapidly expanded into multiple categories, including branded video cards, keyboards, mice, and even explored more exotic offerings like the Cryo-Z phase change cooling system.
OCZ Technology RevoDrive 3 PCIe SSD
In 2007, OCZ shored up its power supply business by acquiring PC Power & Cooling, one of the most well-respected firms in the industry at the time.
A year later, OCZ partnered with Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel to design a range of memory and power supplies for gamers. Most, however, will remember the company for its contributions and advancement of early solid-state drive technology.
Power supplies under the OCZ Technology banner on display at CES 2012
OCZ introduced its first 2.5-inch SATA II SSDs in March 2008. That was over a year before Microsoft released Windows 7, the first version of the operating system designed to work with solid state drives. The drives, offered in capacities of 32GB and 64GB, featured read and write speeds of up to 100MB/s and 80MB/s, respectively, and utilized no moving parts.
The latter made them a potentially attractive alternative for notebook and laptop enthusiasts concerned with mechanical hard drive failure.
A first-gen 30GB OCZ Vertex SSD alongside a 240GB Vertex 3 engineering sample
As is often the case with a new category of technology, there were a lot of wrinkles to iron out before marketing the tech to mainstream consumers.
Early examples didn't deliver the blistering speeds that today's drives are known for. In fact, performance could be quite inconsistent, especially if you didn't use an alignment tool to specify the optimal drive offset when setting everything up. Then there were issues with garbage collection and concerns over flash memory endurance.
SSDs eventually found their way into the mainstream, you could argue in part due to OCZ's contributions to push the technology forward.
An Indilinx controller on an OCZ Technology SSD PCB at CES 2012
The company continued to iterate and experiment with different controllers and firmware, going so far as to exit the DRAM market and acquire flash memory specialist Indilinx just a few months later.
Pricing remained a concern as flash memory was an order of magnitude more expensive than traditional spinning media, but the performance gains that were finally materializing started making the juice worth the squeeze. Once enthusiasts started making the jump, it wasn't long before the rest of the industry followed suit.
OCZ released a plethora of SSDs over the next several years, each a bit more reliable and faster than before. We reviewed several of them. Higher-end devices like the RevoDrive further pushed the envelope, and the company even branched out into the enterprise space. In the end, however, it would all come crashing down.
Various OCZ Technology SSDs on display at CES 2012
In September 2012, founder and CEO Ryan Petersen resigned from the company. Accounting and other legal issues would plague the business over the next year and in late 2013, it was revealed that Toshiba had agreed to buy nearly all of OCZ's assets for $35 million.
Toshiba said it would continue to run the business as a subsidiary called OCZ Storage Solutions. The Japanese tech giant did release some new OCZ-branded drives but ultimately, OCZ was dissolved and absorbed into Toshiba's memory group, later named Kioxia.
OCZ Cryo-Z phase change cooler at CES 2007
OCZ had its fair share of issues over the years and wasn't always the first choice among shoppers. But the outfit did have a hand in helping to make overclocking more mainstream and certainly pushed solid-state drives in the right direction.
Today, OCZ exists as "an SSD brand offered by Kioxia for the consumer market," according to its website. The latest press release from the brand is dated January 8, 2018, for the RC100 NVMe SSD.
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OCZ科技于2000年由瑞安·彼得森创立，最初名为“超频者商店”，是一家面向电脑爱好者的在线硬件转售商。公司最初销售经过筛选的处理器和内存套件，这些产品能够以高于其额定速度的速度运行——超频者愿意为此支付溢价。
最终，彼得森将商店的成功转变为一家主流PC组件业务，成为OCZ科技。这家位于圣荷西的公司迅速扩展到多个类别，包括品牌显卡、键盘、鼠标，甚至探索了更为独特的产品，如Cryo-Z相变冷却系统。
OCZ科技RevoDrive 3 PCIe SSD
2007年，OCZ通过收购当时业界最受尊敬的公司之一PC Power & Cooling来巩固其电源业务。
一年后，OCZ与约翰·“Fatal1ty”·温德尔合作，为游戏玩家设计了一系列内存和电源供应器。然而，大多数人会记住这家公司对早期固态硬盘技术的贡献和推动。
2012年CES展上展示的OCZ科技品牌电源供应器
OCZ于2008年3月推出了首款2.5英寸SATA II SSD。这比微软发布Windows 7（第一个为固态硬盘设计的操作系统版本）早了一年多。这些驱动器提供32GB和64GB的容量，读写速度分别高达100MB/s和80MB/s，并且没有任何活动部件。
后者使它们成为关注机械硬盘故障的笔记本和笔记本电脑爱好者的潜在吸引力替代品。
第一代30GB OCZ Vertex SSD与240GB Vertex 3工程样品并排展示
通常情况下，新的技术类别在向主流消费者营销之前需要解决许多问题。
早期的例子并没有提供今天的驱动器所知的惊人速度。实际上，性能可能相当不稳定，尤其是在设置时如果没有使用对齐工具来指定最佳驱动器偏移量。此外，还有垃圾回收问题和对闪存耐用性的担忧。
SSD最终进入了主流市场，可以说部分是由于OCZ对推动技术发展的贡献。
2012年CES上OCZ Technology SSD PCB上的Indilinx控制器
该公司继续迭代和实验不同的控制器和固件，甚至在几个月后退出了DRAM市场并收购了闪存专家Indilinx。
由于闪存的价格比传统旋转媒体贵了一个数量级，定价仍然是一个问题，但最终显现出的性能提升开始让人觉得物有所值。一旦发烧友开始跳入，整个行业也很快跟随其后。
OCZ在接下来的几年中发布了大量SSD，每一款都比之前更可靠、更快。我们评测了其中几款。像RevoDrive这样的高端设备进一步推动了技术的边界，公司甚至拓展到了企业市场。然而，最终一切都崩溃了。
2012年CES上展出的各种OCZ Technology SSD
2012年9月，创始人兼CEO Ryan Petersen辞去了公司职务。会计和其他法律问题在接下来的一年里困扰着公司，2013年底，披露了东芝同意以3500万美元收购OCZ几乎所有资产的消息。
东芝表示将继续以名为OCZ存储解决方案的子公司运营该业务。这家日本科技巨头确实发布了一些新的OCZ品牌硬盘，但最终，OCZ被解散并并入东芝的内存部门，后来更名为Kioxia。
OCZ Cryo-Z相变冷却器在2007年CES展会上展示
多年来，OCZ经历了不少问题，并不总是消费者的首选。但该公司确实在推动超频更为主流化方面发挥了作用，并且在固态硬盘的发展上做出了积极贡献。
根据其网站，今天的OCZ作为“Kioxia为消费者市场提供的SSD品牌”存在。该品牌最新的新闻稿日期为2018年1月8日，内容为RC100 NVMe SSD。
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