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OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid PCIe

Based on 13 reviews

Excellent:

10
Good:

2
Average:

1
Bad:

0

Pros

SSD-like Performance, Easy Installation, Easy to use software, 3 Year Warranty
One of the fastest drives we have tested, Reasonable price for performance / capacity, 3 year warranty, Bootable.
Performance as good as regular SSD, Transfer speeds are incredibly high, High storage capacity.
Enterprise Class Quality, Blazing Fast Speeds, 1TB Drive, PCIE, 3 Years Warranty
Clever mix of performance and capacity, Cache can deliver SSDlike speed in ideal scenarios.
Delivers 38,000 combined IOPS in Iometer tests, Outstanding 984/839 MBps read/write speed with ATTO, 1TB Highperformance storage capacity, Primary O/S boot drive PCIE SSD capability, 3Year OCZ product warranty support, TCG OPAL security with 256bit A

Cons

Must be used as the install drive
Can only be used with Windows 7, Data must first be cached before you see the true performance
High entry price, If something goes wrong, both SSD & HDD will be unusable
Price (For Some), Dataplex Software Still Lacks Support For Secondary Drives
Only compatible with Windows 7, Limited upgrade paths
SCSI architecture prohibits TRIM with Windows OS, Expensive highperformance storage product, Dataplex software requires active Internet connection to install

By TechSpot on November 01, 2011

OCZ's RevoDrive Hybrid is a hard product to summarize because there are so many aspects that we like, while there are many that we dislike. Let's talk performance first. Simply put, the RevoDrive Hybrid was disappointing. Caching technology...

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By Bjorn3D on April 02, 2012

The RevoDrive Hybrid is a unique product which is difficult to compare. At its present market price it is a very nice deal just looking at the hardware specifications alone. The 1TB enterprise HDD provides the benefit of drive size, and the...

95
By Atomic MPC on April 02, 2012

Decent speed, pity about the...

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By VR-Zone on March 21, 2012

Assessing the technologies and products readily available at the time of this review, the RevoDrive Hybrid appears to be the perfect marriage of a mechanical HDD drive with a large SSD cache. The RevoDrive Hybrid eliminates the limitations currently...

90
By ThinkComputers on March 19, 2012

When it comes to pure performance once your data is cached the RevoDrive Hybrid is one of the fastest drives that we have tested to date! The only drive that even came close was OCZ’s own RevoDrive 3. With speeds of just under 1GB/s read and...

90
By Techgage on March 05, 2012

There's an adage about complexity; the more complex something is the more that can go wrong. While this is not necessarily true in this case, we would be negligent if we declined to mention that we did run into one such issue ourselves. During...

95
By Tbreak.com on February 23, 2012

The performance of the OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid speaks for itself as it closes the gap between hybrid solutions and true solid state drives, traditional hard drives don’t even enter this equation. The overall transfer speeds, as well as the all...

90
By Real World Labs on January 06, 2012

After the very successful RevoDrive series and the recent Synapse series of cache SSDs it was really a matter of time before OCZ used both technologies in a single drive but is the RevoDrive Hybrid really the next step? Well the answer is...

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By Pureoverclock on November 18, 2011

As we've said before and we'll continue to hammer any chance we can get, the single biggest bottleneck in modern systems is the traditional plattered hard drive, and using an SSD in your system will make such a massive difference that you'll...

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By Ocaholic on November 16, 2011

Announcement: Despite the circumstance that the rating of a product is based on as many objective facts as possible there are factors which can have an influence on a rating after publication. Every autor may perceive data differently over time...

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