Since entering the memory market as OCZ Technology in 2002, the company has targeted its products primarily at the computer hardware enthusiast market, producing performance DDR SDRAM, video cards, USB drives, power supply units, and various cooling products.

OCZ Storage Solutions was dissolved on April 1, 2016 and absorbed into Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc,[1][2] which later then became Kioxia.

OCZ was originally called "The Overclockerz Store" when it was founded by Ryan Petersen in 2000 selling overclocked Athlon processors.

San Jose, California-based OCZ Technology Group, Inc. was founded in 2002 by Ryan Petersen and Bhulinder Sethi.

OCZ maintained satellite offices in The Netherlands, United Kingdom, and Israel along with manufacturing and logistics facilities in Taiwan.

In early March 2009, OCZ announced their intent to delist from the LSE to pursue a listing on an American stock exchange.

[8] On October 5, 2011, OCZ announced an intent to acquire PLX Technology's Abingdon R&D department (formerly Oxford Semiconductor), which specializes in storage SoC development.

[14] In the early 2010s, SSD devices with the OCZ brand that use SATA III, PCI Express, Serial attached SCSI[15] and USB 3.0 interfaces, for both client and enterprise applications were produced and marketed.

On October 10, 2012, OCZ appointed board member Ralph Schmitt as the company's president and CEO.

OCZ took a $30 million loan at a steep 15% interest rate from Hercules Technology Growth Capital.

[20] After failing to meet the term of the loan, it was extended to June 2014, with the share price dropping 40% on November 4, 2013.

The Securities and Exchange Commission charged former CEO Ryan Petersen and former CFO Arthur Knap for accounting failures.