OCZ was a brand of Toshiba that was used for some of its solid-state drives before they were rebranded with Toshiba.
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OCZ Storage Solutions was a manufacturer of SSDs based in San Jose, California, USA and was the new company formed after the sale of OCZ Technology Groups SSD assets to Toshiba Corporation.
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OCZ was originally called "The Overclockerz Store" when it was founded by Ryan Peterson in 2000 selling overclocked Athlon processors.
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OCZ maintained satellite offices in The Netherlands, United Kingdom, and Israel along with manufacturing and logistics facilities in Taiwan.
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In June 2006, OCZ went public on the London Stock Exchange Alternative Investment Market, with the ticker symbol "OCZ".
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In early March 2009, OCZ announced their intent to delist from the LSE to pursue a listing on an American stock exchange.
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In September 2010 OCZ announced the RevoDrive, which is a bootable PCI-E drive for the enthusiast market.
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In November 2010, OCZ acquired intellectual property from Solid Data Inc, for Fibre Channel, SAS, and controller assets for solid state drives.
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OCZ discontinued all RAM production, citing poor market performance and the weakening global DRAM market, by the end of their 2010 fiscal year on February 28,2011.
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In March 2011, OCZ acquired Indilinx Company, Limited, a privately held fabless provider of flash controller silicon and software for SSDs, for approximately $32 million of OCZ common stock.
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In 2012 OCZ acquired Sanrad Inc, a privately held provider of flash caching and virtualization software and hardware from the RAD Group; Sanrad became the OCZ Israel office.
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On October 10,2012, OCZ appointed board member Ralph Schmitt as the company's president and CEO.
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OCZ was several quarters late in filing and restated earnings all the way back to 2008.
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OCZ then stated they expected to file a petition for bankruptcy and that Toshiba Corporation had expressed interest in purchasing its assets in a bankruptcy proceeding.
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On December 2,2013, OCZ announced Toshiba had agreed to purchase nearly all of OCZ's assets for $35 million.
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The next dataset, published on November 6,2014, shows only one OCZ drive, the OCZ Agility 3 480 GB, which had a much lower return rate of 1.
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