Revo3 x2 SSD up to 1.5GB/s??

[Krusty]

Wow... Revo3 X2 PCIe SSD drives are pushing MAJOR speed with large storage. Costs an arm and a leg, but it all trickles down sooner or later.

Amazingly fast speeds tested.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4470/ocz-revodrive-3-x2-480gb-preview

The x3 is under development too, I hear.

Interesting times to compute in!

[Masherbrum]

This was a "hot topic" a few months ago..........

[Pigslilspaz]

Brings meaning to the phrase "More because MORE!"

[Krusty]

This was a "hot topic" a few months ago..........

Are you sure? I recall a review of the Revodrive 2 X2 that some people raised unwarranted criticism over. However the Revo3 is new, and seemingly much faster than its Revo2 predecessor.

[Dragon]

So, how does that new Revo compare to, say, a Western Digital 500GB Sata-3?

[MutleyBR]

When they came out I was quite interested and did some research, but...

Read somewhere(can´t recall now, when I remember will post the source) that SSD's at the moment are prone to catastrophic failures, without warning... 

I would not use a SSD right now, unless using a RAID, or similar scheme, which I believe would kill the main SSD advantage, speed.

Mutley. 

PS: Got the link for some SSD stories, with user comments, you, be the judge:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid-state-drive-scale.html

[Krusty]

Mutley I wouldn't buy sudden catastrophic failure m'self. I think that's just fearmongering. Look at the failure rates listed on newegg reviews. Even platter drives from brand name companies have many of those. You use the SSD but back up on a standard drive simply for dollars-per-GB ratio. 

Don't know the specs on your drive there Dragon, but most HDDs run between 100 and 150 MB/s, and this Revo3 X2 runs 1.5GB/s

Note this X2 denotes it's in RAID configuration (RAID 0 I think?), the basic Revo3 are a bit slower but still very fast for SSDs. The Revo3 is non-RAID, the Revo3 X2 is RAID. Just for clarification's sake.

[MutleyBR]

Roger that. 

But I´ll wait a little longer before switching.

Good luck!

Mut

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Are you sure? I recall a review of the Revodrive 2 X2 that some people raised unwarranted criticism over. However the Revo3 is new, and seemingly much faster than its Revo2 predecessor.

I recall a "review" of revodrive pitted against a prehistoric hdd claiming that pci-e is this much faster than sata3. As you saw in the anandtech *professional* review, they mentioned that using vertex3 drives and sata3 in raid, anyone can build a similarly performing setup for less money using plain old sata3.

[Krusty]

I think it was talking the fastest of the Sata6 SSDs, the OCZ model.

"The RevoDrive 3 X2's performance shouldn't be surprising. In fact, you should be able to get similar performance out of a 4-drive RAID-0 array of Vertex 3s. Unfortunately you wouldn't be able to do so on a 6-series Intel motherboard as you're limited to two 6Gbps SATA ports. You'd either need to invest in a 4-port 6Gbps SATA RAID card like this or look at AMD's 8/9-series chipset, which does make the RevoDrive 3 X2 a little more attractive."

The thing about the Revo3 isn't that it's PCIe. It's that it's all integrated into 1 "drive" -- the RAID is built in. No need to RAID in multiple drives. Easy to use and set up. I've never done RAID before but it was seamless to put in my Revo x2 100GB on my new system several months back. Takes less power, less cables, less storage space than putting in a RAID of separate drives.

That's just icing on the cake, putting it all in 1 package. The performance really blows away the OCZ in many of the tests. The sustained tests showed the OCZ topped out about 500-550 MB/S whereas the Revo3 x2 trippled that. I'm not sure about the scalability of RAID 0, but I don't think you get tripple the performance. Maybe double? Still overall very interesting.

[Debrody]

Don't know the specs on your drive there Dragon, but most HDDs run between 100 and 150 MB/s, and this Revo3 X2 runs 1.5GB/s

zomg thats a lil bit fast...
How can the processors handle this ride? Isnt there a CPU limit if you dont have a top-end processor, lets say, a Sandy Bridge i3?
Btw that drive costs twice as much as my entire system (what still runs AH with all the eye-candy at steady 60 fps...)

[Krusty]

LOL I know! But, hey, I did mention it would eventually trickle down to us mere mortals. By the time they're up to 5GB/s, us peons will be enjoying 1.5GB/s at reasonable prices 


We're one step closer to isolinear chips and holographic storage!

[Bino]

An article posted today about Sandforce-based SSDs on Anandtech begins with this somber note:

"It's a depressing time to be covering the consumer SSD market. Although performance is higher than it has ever been, we're still seeing far too many compatibility and reliability issues from all of the major players..."

[Krusty]

Bleak but fascinating!

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I think it was talking the fastest of the Sata6 SSDs, the OCZ model.

"The RevoDrive 3 X2's performance shouldn't be surprising. In fact, you should be able to get similar performance out of a 4-drive RAID-0 array of Vertex 3s. Unfortunately you wouldn't be able to do so on a 6-series Intel motherboard as you're limited to two 6Gbps SATA ports. You'd either need to invest in a 4-port 6Gbps SATA RAID card like this or look at AMD's 8/9-series chipset, which does make the RevoDrive 3 X2 a little more attractive."

The thing about the Revo3 isn't that it's PCIe. It's that it's all integrated into 1 "drive" -- the RAID is built in. No need to RAID in multiple drives. Easy to use and set up. I've never done RAID before but it was seamless to put in my Revo x2 100GB on my new system several months back. Takes less power, less cables, less storage space than putting in a RAID of separate drives.

That's just icing on the cake, putting it all in 1 package. The performance really blows away the OCZ in many of the tests. The sustained tests showed the OCZ topped out about 500-550 MB/S whereas the Revo3 x2 trippled that. I'm not sure about the scalability of RAID 0, but I don't think you get tripple the performance. Maybe double? Still overall very interesting.

Making a raid array is childs play, you just slap the drives in and activate the raid controller menu to tell which drives should be striped. Raid 0 with SSD does scale almost 1:1 so with 2 drives you get double the performance and capacity practically speaking. Keep in mind that revodrive x2 means that it's two revo x1:s striped in raid 0 internally - that's where the performance comes from.