Testseek.com have collected 48 expert reviews of the OCZ SSD RevoDrive Series PCIe and the average rating is 88%. Scroll down and see all reviews for OCZ SSD RevoDrive Series PCIe.
October 2010
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The editors liked
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
Extreme Performance
Bootable PCIe Card
More Affordable Than Other PCIe-Based Storage Solutions
Fastest drive we've ever tested
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.
Great queuedepth performance and random read/write
Bootable
Trumps single SandForce.
Delivers approximately 70
000 4K IOPS in Iometer
Better IOPS than two separate SandForce SSDs in RAID0
Blazing fast 539/453 MBps read/write speed with ATTO
DuraWrite technology extends NAND lifetime
Toplevel operational I/O performance for application servers
3Year OCZ product warranty
Several highspeed SSD storage capacities available
AES128 Automatic encryption and password dat
The fastest drive we have ever tested
Impressive 531MB/s read and 448MB/s write in ATTO
Available in many different capacities
3 year warranty
Excellent performance
Easy to setup
Idle garbage colleciton
Good SandForce controller
Comparable cost
The editors didn't like
Price is high if you simply compare it to other 50GB SSDs
Haven't found any drive cloning software that works with it yet
Relatively Expensive
Silicon Image Controller + PCIe Bridge Adds Some Latency
No TRIM Support
No Trim
Drive slows down after heavy use.
SiI3124 RAID controller lacks NCQ
SMART
And TRIM passthrough
Not as fast as two separate SandForcedriven SSDs in RAID0
Abstract: We expected the OCZ to bring a bit more than half of Apricorn’s quad-drive performance, figuring scaling from two drives to four in a single RAID 0. Our benchmarks indeed show a roughly 1:2 comparison with Apricorn in many cases, but in some instances OCZ eit..
Extreme Performance, Bootable PCIe Card, More Affordable Than Other PCIe-Based Storage Solutions
Relatively Expensive, Silicon Image Controller + PCIe Bridge Adds Some Latency, No TRIM Support
When we reviewed the PCIe X4 Fusion-io Xtreme/Xtreme Pro nine months ago we took particular notice of the card's price—the XDrive cost $11.18 per GB while the XDrive Pro was a steep $9.36 per GB. In less than a year, OCZ slashed more than half off the pr...
OCZ has really outdone themselves as the RevoDrive is probably the best bang-for-your-buck SSD purchase you can make right now. The only piece that may worry consumers is the lack of TRIM and idle garbage collection support but that may be remedied b...
Published: 2010-06-28, Author: Joseph , review by: engadget.com
Abstract: Just the thought of an almost affordable PCIe SSD inspires some serious gadget lust, so we're glad to see reviews of the OCZ RevoDrive starting to pop up 'round the net. The gang at PC Perpective got their hands on a model, and they're clearly smitten, ca...
Fast transfer speeds, On par or beats twodrive SandForce RAID0 setup, Bootable and runs Windows and Linux (Confirmed with OS tests), Runs on PCI Express bus using an open X4, X8 or x16 slot, Internal RAID0, Competitive Pricing, Capacities for all needs...
Over provisioned compared to current SandForce SF1200 drives, No TRIM support yet...
The OCZ RevoDrive PCI Express 50GB drive was a complete pleasure to test. I had no issues whatsoever installing, booting into and running both Windows 7 Professional and Ubuntu Linux 10.10. The installation could not be simpler, just plug into the cor...
The RevoDrive certainly has performance to burn. It may not be the absolute best at every single test we threw at it, but it always was right up there with the top competitors on the market. More importantly, in real world situations the RevoDrive 120G...
Abstract: 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 be...
Published: 2010-07-28, Author: Chris , review by: tweaktown.com
The OCZ RevoDrive is a unique product that is simple and complex at the same time. Right out of the box the RevoDrive is setup and ready to go without any configuration. You just plug the drive into an available PCIe slot and install Windows with th...
Published: 2011-02-24, Author: Juha , review by: pcworld.co.nz
Abstract: 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 the current ...
