[citation][nom]jtt283[/nom]Scapegoat for all the bad OCZ drives? Hmmm, and the new guy is Marketing, not an engineer? Somehow, I just don't trust OCZ any more. Corner-cutting has bitten them on multiple products, from the bad Sandfarce drives, to PSUs with cheaper 85C capacitors that may not hold up.[/citation]
The Sandforce debacle was completely out of OCZs hands and affected multiple drive vendors. If anything, that misstep on Sandforce's part broke Sandforce's dominance on the market and gave OCZ the push they needed to just buy their own controller chip maker and start producing them in house (newer agility series). This is a huge win for them, and a good move on OCZs part IMO.
I can't speak to corner cutting any place else, as I have not heard about it. What I will say is that I've needed to use OCZs warranty service only once, and they did an impressive job.