Inside OCZ's Factory: How SSDs Are Made

I love how Kristian opens up with a flow chart of OCZ&#x27;s design process. Every OCZ product fails in step 4 -- or seems to jump from 2 to 5.<p>I read the title of the article as &quot;How SSDs are Made (Poorly)&quot;. This was a bad acquisition for Toshiba.

It&#x27;s weird that OCZ tries to somehow salvage itself from the reputation of a company that knowingly produces unreliable hardware and knowingly lies to customers.

I had three OCZ SSDs - a Vertex 2 and two Vertex 3s. One lasted a month and a half; the others lasted a month. It&#x27;s surprising that Toshiba would want to be associated with this brand.

Few companies have poisoned the well as thoroughly as OCZ has, by treating their customers and investors as utterly disposable. There are a lot of people out there who won&#x27;t forget what they did. Toshiba would do well to retire the brand, dissolve the org and integrate the assets fully.

Pretty empty article TBH. This is not only standard, but very simple pick and place assembly that any CM can do.<p>Most of what goes into &#x27;Making an SSD&#x27; is the ASIC and firmware design on the controller. The actual assembly is incredibly mundane from there.

I&#x27;m surprised that they&#x27;re looking to replace some of the more mundane manual tasks with automation. Labor is a lot cheaper than machines in China.<p>I somehow doubt that putting stickers on a SSD is the bottleneck in their production facility.

Will never, ever buy anything branded with OCZ. This company nearly poisoned the SSD market.