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OCZ SSD RevoDrive Series PCIe

Based on 14 reviews

Excellent:

9
Good:

4
Average:

1
Bad:

0

Pros

Low power usage 3 watts idle 8 watts active, PCI-E x4 based. No SATA needed, Stand alone, no wires, Enterprise technology at enthusiasts price level.
Extremely impressive performance, Excellent solution for avoiding the SATA issue on Sandybridge systems, Competitively priced when compared to two high performance drives to be used in RAID 0
Excellent performance, Easy to setup, Idle garbage colleciton, Good SandForce controller, 3 year warranty, Comparable cost
Impressive 531MB/s read and 448MB/s write in ATTO, Bootable, Available in many different capacities.
Up to 75,000 IOPS in random 4K aligned random writes, RAID 0 out of the box.

Cons

Price is high if you simply compare it to other 50GB SSDs, Haven't found any drive cloning software that works with it yet.
No TRIM support
Drive slows down after heavy use.
PC Only.
SiI3124 RAID controller lacks NCQ, SMART.

By CDRinfo on May 03, 2011

We have in our labs the OCZ Revodrive, a high performance PCIe Solid State Drive (SSD) for consumer applications in desktops and workstation PCs. Moving beyond the bottleneck of SATA II, the RevoDrive features a PCI-E interface and promises to deliver...

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By TechRadar on April 25, 2011

Ever the SSD innovator, OCZ's PCIe-based RevoDrive is a bit of corker. While the SATA 3Gbps and SATA 6Gbps interfaces are still along way off causing major bandwidth problems for mechanical hard drives, the same cannot be said for SSDs. And for...

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By TechReaction.net on April 19, 2011

The 80 GB OCZ Revodrive performed very well in all tests and performs about as well as two individual drives connected through an Intel Southbridge. Write speeds are slightly diminished, however, compared to two individual 40 GB drives in RAID0,...

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By APC Magazine on April 04, 2011

We have written a lot over the past few months about our hopes of new storage technologies entering the market - after all, storage speed is the biggest bottleneck in computing today. Some interesting products that attempt to solve these issues have...

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By SilentPC Review on March 14, 2011

The OCZ RevoDrive 120GB is easily the fastest SSD we've tested and was particularly dominant in our file copy and application tests. However, as it is essentially composed of a pair of SandForce-based SSDs running in RAID 0, we were expecting more...

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By Ninjalane on March 14, 2011

We have entered a brave new world in data storage. This may seem like a bold claim but this drive device is a whole new spin on bootable drives. It is a new age in computers and OCZ appears to be leading the way. As we all know the traditional HDD...

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By Bigbruin on February 25, 2011

As a system memory manufacturer, OCZ Technology could always be counted on to raise the performance bar through innovative new designs. Now that they have decided to concentrate on solid state drives, it can be seen that the same spirit that made...

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By PCWorld New Zealand on February 24, 2011

Mass-storage has long been a bottleneck for computer performance and we’re only now starting to see serious improvements in this area, through solid-state drives (SSDs).The performance boost SSDs bring is considerable – enough to make even...

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By Bjorn3D on February 23, 2011

The performance of the RevoDrive is excellent. There is no doubt that the RevoDrive will get the job done faster. The RevoDrive is priced slightly higher than SSDs at similar capacity, yet performs faster than those drives due to the RAID 0...

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By Pro-Clockers on February 20, 2011

The OCZ RevoDrive is one hell of a drive. We have yet to test anything like it, or even as fast for that matter. With maximum Read speeds of 513MB/s and Write speeds of 434MB/s, according to our ATTO test, the Revo definitely performed as advertised....

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