We've all heard bad things about OCZ drives.. I have about 4 or 5 over the last 2-3 years and all are still going *knock on wood*
OCZ is in the process of being sold to Toshiba
I used to know the founder and president.. This is back in the old days when they made RAM products and heatsinks. Of course, that is until he got chased away from shareholders when they booted him off as CEO (replaced by Alex Mei who was there in the beginning also).. He sold his house the next day and ran to panama and I don't know if anyone has seen him since
If you remember the huge price drops SSDs saw in 2011-2012, with huge MIRs all the time, that was Ryan attempting to boost up their sales figures to sell the company for an inflated price.. It almost worked, but the sale fell through, and of course after honoring all the MIRs they lost money.