OCZ RevoDrive Combines SSDs in RAID via PCI-E
OCZ launched its RevoDrive that uses 4x PCI-E to achieve 80,000 IOPS.
OCZ Technology today revealed it's new RevoDrive PCI-Express SSD, which crams two SandForce-equipped MLC NAND SSDs--configured for a RAID 0 array--onto a single PCB. The company claims that it moves beyond the bottleneck of SATA II (3 Gbps) by incorporating a 4x PCI-E interface. The result is a solution that cranks out speeds over 500 MB/s reads and random small writes of up to 80,000 IOPS.
So, will this new RevoDrive come cheap? You know it won't. OCZ will initially offer two flavors--120 GB and 240 GB capacities, costing $389.99 and $699.99 respectively. Both versions will also be bootable, promising quicker boot-ups, load times, and faster computing. Unlike HDDs, the RevoDrive is quiet, a lot cooler, and more energy efficient than its clunky, mechanical counterparts.
"The RevoDrive is the first PCIe SSD that delivers both performance and affordability and radically alters the SSD landscape," said Ryan Petersen, CEO of the OCZ Technology Group. "Up to this point, PCIe SSDs have been reserved for enterprise applications and priced out of the range of many consumers. The bootable RevoDrive SSD changes the game by delivering a PCIe based solution that costs as low as $3 per gigabyte, exceptional small file write IOPS of over 80K, which is the most available in any low-cost solution."
Both are available for purchase, however Amazon lists them with prices quite a bit higher than what OCZ indicated. For the 120 GB version, the price is $459.20 and is currently listed as "out of stock." The 240 GB SSD pricetag is even scarier: $806.40 and also listed as "out of stock." Neither TigerDirect nor Newegg--both specified as OCZ online retailers--had the SSDs listed.
Thats a 2 out of 2 so guess what I´ll never buy again... OCZ-SSD´s
Imho SSD´s are nowhere close to being reliable and a raid would just double the chance to lose your data. Ok you can make a copy of the raid´s data but it´s still not worth it at this price tag.
I have a pair of orange SSDs from OCZ, and love them. Not too many upgrades these days blow your hair back after an install. A pair of SSD drives in RAID 0 is one of them. 500mbps is even faster than that for all but the latest releases! Prety cool!
I'm interested to see how long it takes before we end up with MBs with SSD chips built into them.
tldr: SATAIII > PCIE-4 for SSDs.
graphics (1-2), sound card 1. then possible others being raid card for larger HDD's for storage since unless your rich your not building your computer with straight SSD's.
And after all that, you have maybe 1, or if lucky two PCI-e slots left, bleh
no wonder, its out of stock and pricier.
Um I do wonder if you people even read the article some times
Not to mention... what do you think raid cards do..., they boot in a PCI(varying types) slot
I's speculate for boot they have some SATA plug that handles the initial boot and it switches somehow after it gets running..
"Not worth the PCIE-4 IMO. I don't know any mobos that will let me xfire/sli at x16 and still have a usable x4 path. I have two OCZ Summits striped on SATAIII (6gbps), which seems to be a better use of limited resources on today's mobos."
Today's mobos don't have limited resources. Remember that no single-GPU card needs more than 8 PCIe lanes (PCIe 2.0 is double the speed of 1.0). Take a board like the MSI 790FX-GD70. With two graphics cards and one of these SSDs in there they'd all have a perfectly useable 8 lanes apiece. Unless you're running dual HD5970s, there's no motherboard issue here.