OCZ Storage Solutions
OCZ Technology is a U.S. manufacturer of RAM and flash memory, which is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, is located. Since entering the memory market in 2002, OCZ has its objectives designed primarily to computer hardware enthusiasts. Additionally, OCZ also offers PC power supplies, computer cooling products, graphics cards and other various computer components. Since 2007, mice are produced.
On November 27, 2013, the Company announced to stand before the bankruptcy. The plan is to take over the business by Toshiba.
General
OCZ has offices in the Netherlands, Canada, Brazil, and also a research and development facilities in Taipei, Taiwan ROC. In June 2006, OCZ agreed on a share company on the London Stock Exchange, but on 2 April 2009 the company announced the sale of its shares there and stated that they are to be traded in the future only in the United States. In addition to PC Power and Cooling also the company Hypersonic was acquired in 2007.
Products
Main memory
OCZ provides DDR memory forth for different applications. The initial subdivision in the series value, performance, and Platinum in DDR1 RAM have since been steadily introduced new subdivisions. When DDR2 memory as the Gold series, as well as the high-end modules Fatal1ty (gaming ) and Titanium (not professional server ) was born. In addition, modules with optimizations for platforms ( CrossFire Certified, SLI - Ready) and locations ( Reaper in HTPCs, Flex XLC in systems with water cooling) are offered. In the still incomplete DDR3 collection is already available with the Intel Extreme Series Intel Core i7- optimized memory kit available. The choices for laptops and older Apple systems are significantly smaller.
On 11 January 2011 OCZ announced in a press release, to withdraw from the memory market. The reasons for this was called the small proportion of the memory segment 's total sales, very small profit margins on sales of memory modules as well as the company's focus on the rapidly growing SSD market.
Flash memory
OCZ also manufactures flash storage media such as Solid State Drives, USB sticks and SD cards. As with the RAM modules various series with different capacities are available in each product category. A special feature of OCZ memory media for the ExpressCard slot and the eSATA interface on offer, but can be used via USB for compatibility reasons.
Solid State Drives
The OCZ Colossus, a 3.5 " SSD with up to one terabyte of storage capacity, was unveiled at Computex 2009. Also available with up to one terabyte is the OCZ Z- Drive, is this to be more SSDs in RAID array that are connected through a PCI Express slot on the computer., data throughput amounts in fresh flash cells to about 870 in reading and 780 MB / s write.
Power Supplies
OCZ has released a few different series of power supplies. The three best known are the ProXStream, the GameXStream - and PowerStream series. The rows and ProXStream GameXStream were among the first power supplies that could provide a power output of 1,000 watts, shortly after PC Power and Cooling, OCZ acquired on 25 May 2007.
Graphics Cards
For about a year OCZ Nvidia GeForce 3 series in the offer, but was reinstated had. In early 2007, the Nvidia GeForce 8800 series, which supports DirectX 10, introduced at OCZ.
Mice
In February 2007, OCZ introduced its first mouse, the OCZ Equalizer and scaled down version for notebooks Equalizer Go. With its high resolution, and various additional functions it aims to Player Group. Later, the offer was complemented by the OCZ Dominatrix.
A special feature is the OCZ NIA ( Neural Impulse Actuator), which appeared in 2008. This will act as a mouse replacement and consists of a headband that measures and interpreted by means of electrodes nerve and muscle flows. This equipment should also complicated processes, such as PC games that you can be without the help of traditional input devices such as mouse or keyboard controlled.