OCZ Reveals RevoDrive 3 Max IOPS Editions
OCZ Technology has released its MAX IOPS versions of the RevoDrive 3 and RevoDrive 3 X2 SSDs based on a PCI Express x4 interface
The Max IOPS RevoDrive 3's are based on the PCI Express x4 interface (PCIe-to-SAS controller) and utilizes OCZ's Virtual Controller Architecture (VCA) 2.0. As discussed in The OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 Preview: Second-Gen SandForce Goes PCIe, VCA "reduces CPU overhead by implementing queue balancing algorithms, and it improves direct memory access". In addition, it adds TRIM and SCSI Unmap support, which are designed to help with minimizing write amplification and maintain performance.
The RevoDrive 3 Max IOPS comes in three capacities, 120 GB, 240 GB and 480 GB, and offers performance of sequential read and writes speeds up to 1000 MB/s and 950 MB/s, with 4KB random write performance of up to 140,000 IOPS. The original RevoDrive 3 offers performance of sequential read and writes speeds up to 1025 MB/s and 925 MB/s, with 4KB random write performance of up to 130,000 IOPS.
The RevoDrive 3 X2 Max IOPS comes in three capacities; 240 GB, 480 GB and 960 GB. The RevoDrive 3 Max IOPS offers performance of sequential read and writes speeds up to 1900 MB/s and 1725 MB/s, with 4KB random write performance of up to 245,000 IOPS. The original RevoDrive 3 X2 offers performance of sequential read and writes speeds up to 1500 MB/s and 1300 MB/s, with 4KB random write performance of up to 230,000 IOPS.
"The new RevoDrive 3 Max IOPS solid state drives further expand on our original PCIe series, and are designed to deliver even more bandwidth for the most demanding applications," said Daryl Lang, VP of Product Management, OCZ Technology Group. "Engineered to leverage the benefits of multi-threaded processors and applications, the Max IOPS provides both the performance and features required by clients to address the most intensive workloads common in high performance computing and workstation environments."
You can learn more about the RevoDrive 3 Max IOPS and RevoDrive 3 X2 Max IOPS at their product pages.
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BUT I have only 2 kidneys!!! and i can sell only one of them
...dare I even ask the price for these?
OCZ needs to focus on the Hybrid, if they make a proper hybrid(no dodgy software, and a bit more speed). it has quite a high chance of dominating the market. i mean look at the current 1 TB hybrid not bad for the price, but the software is just so bad i cant work with it.
but if they made it beter, and more reliable then i might just buy one, but their current software is useless, and horribly implemented.
I have a liver, healthy, I, I...can I live without it?...I don't even have a PC (I've got a Mac), but me want this...I'll build a PC around it.
Yeah, I agree with DDC, they really need to work on their Hybrid Wonder, it has great potential and is much much faster than the Seagate Hybrid or others.
I wonder how much 1 kidney, my appendix, my tonsils, my spleen and my gallbladder would go for. Maybe that'll get me one of those drives.
I wonder how much 1 kidney, my appendix, my tonsils, my spleen and my gallbladder would go for. Maybe that'll get me one of those drives.
It might get you one, if you throw in $100US, but probably not the X2 edition.
Fast one indeed!
Leave it to OCZ to make the totally drool-worthy device that is gotta be overkill but that I gotta have for my system (Mac Pro) that it won't even work in.
Leave it to OCZ to make the totally drool-worthy device that is gotta be overkill but that I gotta have for my system (Mac Pro) that it won't even work in.
Hahaha Mac Pro.
Hahaha Mac Pro.
"laugh it up fuzz ball...laugh it up." - Han Solo
See, though I can't have a RevoDrive 3 X2 Max IOPS right now I can have this...and the this isn't too bad. What I'd lose in performance I'd gain in cross-platform and drive flexiblity.
...besides, I hate to toot my own horn but the Mac Pro certainly isn't slowing anything down.
actually this is cheap considering a raid card + SSD's to have the same performance and storage costs way more then this.
Oh, you saw the price? I must've overlooked that.
the price is the only reason that hold my down. too bad.
Welp, I guess SSD is dead and time to learn how to raid 0 a few of these new Revos.
I just bought the Revodrive 3 X2 and so far it is pretty nice. I have it bottlenecked though because it is installed in a PCIe 4x 1.1a slot instead of the 16x 2.0 slot like recommended but I will get to that later. So far I like it.
Hopefully in the near future Windows 7 or 8 will be able to pass trim commands to it. Right now, it supports trim but when the command is sent Windows just drops it.
"laugh it up fuzz ball...laugh it up." - Han SoloSee, though I can't have a RevoDrive 3 X2 Max IOPS right now I can have this...and the this isn't too bad. What I'd lose in performance I'd gain in cross-platform and drive flexiblity....besides, I hate to toot my own horn but the Mac Pro certainly isn't slowing anything down.
Mac Pro is a blazing box and there is a way to get the RevoDrive to work on it. there are custom kext files that you can download to make it work. All you have to do is install OSX on a regular drive, install the custom kext so that it will see the Revodrive then do a bit copy from the main drive to the revodrive, then change the boot drive in disk utility and boom, boot right off the Revo.
I didn't understand the need for products like this, until I plugged my OCZ SSD with a 500 MB/s rated read speed into a Sata3 6GB/s port in a Z68 motherboard, and was shocked to see it running at 330MB/s read speed instead, because it was limited in bandwidth by the mobo. I did a bit of research, found out this was typical, and suddenly I'm looking at stuff like OCZ Revo drives as legit purchases, instead of silly niche stuff for crazy storage obsessed people.
Anyway, dropping about 200 bucks on a lower capacity Revodrive for a cache drive seems like an interesting idea. There's some compatibility issues, of course. Some motherboards don't work with a Revo drive at all, others require you to run it in only certain PCIe ports, and actually quite commonly, the onboard Raid controller needs to be disabled. So, be sure to check OCZ's webpage, and checkup on your motherboard's compatibility before getting one of these.
Mac Pro is a blazing box and there is a way to get the RevoDrive to work on it. there are custom kext files that you can download to make it work. All you have to do is install OSX on a regular drive, install the custom kext so that it will see the Revodrive then do a bit copy from the main drive to the revodrive, then change the boot drive in disk utility and boom, boot right off the Revo.
Saaaawwweeeeetttt, I'll look into that.
I didn't understand the need for products like this, until I plugged my OCZ SSD with a 500 MB/s rated read speed into a Sata3 6GB/s port in a Z68 motherboard, and was shocked to see it running at 330MB/s read speed instead, because it was limited in bandwidth by the mobo. I did a bit of research, found out this was typical, and suddenly I'm looking at stuff like OCZ Revo drives as legit purchases, instead of silly niche stuff for crazy storage obsessed people.Anyway, dropping about 200 bucks on a lower capacity Revodrive for a cache drive seems like an interesting idea. There's some compatibility issues, of course. Some motherboards don't work with a Revo drive at all, others require you to run it in only certain PCIe ports, and actually quite commonly, the onboard Raid controller needs to be disabled. So, be sure to check OCZ's webpage, and checkup on your motherboard's compatibility before getting one of these.
I actually took a risk. I bought it, spent 699.00 of the 240gb thinking I had PCIe 2.0 on my Asus Commando board. It was not on the list either and I had PCIe 1.1a. There were some firmware and bios updates that seemed to stabilize everything so people are not getting the BSOD's like before. Well, put it in my 4x slot, system saw it, loaded the driver and now I am typing this to you guys with it as my boot drive. Windows 7 HD score went up to 7.9. I do know it is not where near it's potential right now because of my 5 year old board but it is stable, fast and I have no issues.
Hmm. IIRC PCIe 1.1a would be 250MB/s per lane, right? So an 4x slot would provide a 1000MB/s data rate.... which would actually bottleneck a OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2. Isn't that crazy? 1000MB/s isn't fast enough?!
I have a free x16 slot on this motherboard since I removed a Crossfired card. I might give this a try.
But who knows what it will do to the computer. BEst I can do with this one is a old Intel x25 at about 210 mb/second at best.
I'm afraid this will probably cost as much as my entire build.
My question is if (money not being an object for this if) it could be raid 0ed. How awesome would it be to have four of these monsters running with raid 0 with over 7.5GB/s sequential? Could have a nearly instant boot ignoring time BIOS takes.
What kind of setup would it take to top that? Besides having a ton of 2.5" SSDs raided.
This kind of speed is purely luxury for the enthusiast that wants the best of the best. I'm glad OCZ offers it and I hope to one day be able to have this kind of performance for myself.
The only problem is that these OCZ drives are BSOD generating machines. Do NOT ask me about my Revodrive.......
I'd say we have hit the speed limit with this one.
All of you above complaining about the price, I wouldn't worry. In Australia they are as rare a rocking horse poo! Anyone selling them for less than $1000 (au) have sold out...
Booo OCZ Boooo!