OCZ Reveals New Bootable PCIe SSD
Users can boot their PC using OCZ's new 2nd-generation RevoDrive.
Thursday OCZ Technology Group announced the launch of its new bootable RevoDrive X2 PCI-Express SSD. Building upon the original 1st-generation RevoDrive, the new version boasts speeds up to 740 MB/s and up to 120,000 IOPS, almost three times the throughput of other high-end SATA-based solutions.
According to OCZ, the new SSD gets its "edge" by bypassing the SATA II bottleneck and utilizing a PCIe x4 interface. It also improves on the previous version's design by incorporating four Sandforce-1200 controllers (instead of two) while maintaining the same onboard RAID 0 layout. However unlike other competing solutions, the drive is bootable, allowing for super-fast startups.
"Building on the success of the original design, we are excited to introduce the RevoDrive X2, which delivers both increased performance and capacity, making the RevoDrive X2 a viable option for a wide spectrum of applications that include professional graphic design, multimedia rendering, and workstations," said Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ Technology. "With our recently announced new state-of-the-art SSD manufacturing facility in Taiwan, OCZ will continue to be at the forefront of developing and deploying game-changing solid state storage solutions."
The RevoDrive X2 PCI-Express SSD comes in six capacities--100 GB, 160 GB, 240 GB, 360 GB, 480 GB and 960 GB. Drives with capacities of 100 GB to 160 GB offer read speeds up to 740 MB/s and write speeds up to 690 MB/s. Drives with capacities ranging from 240 GB to 960 GB offer read speeds up to 740 MB/s and write speeds up to 720 MB/s. All six are compatible with Windows XP 32/64, Vista 32/64 and Windows 7 32/64.
OCZ said the drives are now available through its global channel.
We also reported on Angelbird's Wings SSD, which has the ability to remove or add spare SSDs and also comes bootable out of the box.
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Ver' nice, how much?
Any idea on cost? Or should I even ask . . . .
What I've been waiting for... at least, until I get sticker shock and buy a traditional drive.
First ssd I've really been interested in. I bet it's prohibitively expensive though. How much, Toms?
http://ncix.com/products/index.php [...] Technology
yah..no thx k bai... Ill wait for my puter to boot up and write large files to disk
Any idea on cost? Or should I even ask . . . .
NCIS (Canadian retailer) has them ranging from CAD $461 for the 100GB model up to CAD $3,330 for the 960GB drive. Quite an investment.
E: See http://ncix.com/products/index.php [...] catid=1134
Sounds awesome but...
Do they support TRIM?
$3,300 for the 1tb flavor. =/ wow.
If you have to ask, you can't afford it.
As toofly mentioned, do they support TRIM? Since most SSD's that I know of do not support TRIM in any form of raid, sounds like another expensive item that loses performance over 3 months before having to be rebuilt.
If it doesn't support TRIM it's impressive performance numbers will only last for so long. OCZ's previous Sata interfaced SSD's did not support TRIM, and considering this isn't mentioned in this article I can only assume it isn't supported on this one.
Sorry, it's a decent idea, (except that most 4x PCIe interfaces are situated where a large GPU resides), but without TRIM it's pretty much useless.
At this rate, I hope my computer holds out until 2012. Maybe by then, prices for 1TB SSD drives will be somewhat affordable...if we're lucky, but I'm not holding my breath on that.
blah blah blah, how much?
blah blah blah, how much?
NewEgg doesn't currently carry these, buy Costcentral.com is selling the 100gb version for $464.04
Buy.com is selling the 360gb version for 1112.94.
You'd be amazed what information you could find out yourself if you learned how to do a simple search...
2nd generation already?
personally if I had $3,300 I would go buy 1TB of some good SSD's and maybe a computer to go with it.
personally if I had $3,300 I would go buy 1TB of some good SSD's and maybe a computer to go with it.
However you don't have $3,300.
also if you have an intel chipset mobo you can pass trim commands directly through the south bridge and in theory it will work with the raid on these.
$3,300... That is some expensive trim!
Love the product but I have built entire Rigs for a lot less than that cost. :-|
I wonder how much the 360GB is.
Sorry, it's a decent idea, (except that most 4x PCIe interfaces are situated where a large GPU resides), but without TRIM it's pretty much useless.
You can stick a 4x device in a full size 16x slot.
These are cool but as other posters have already figured out too expensive for average joe and my not even support Trim, but used as a boot disk(see below) wouldnt matter as much.
I cant help not to think that these would be GREAT! if they were made just to hold your OS and a few Apps to keep costs down but still offer major performance. It would be a sweet boot disk with those kind of speeds. Why isnt anyone making a product like that? Im sure the would be a big market for it, I would buy one in a heartbeat.
i wish i was a billionaire then i woulda buy'd the most expensive and good computer parts like this little sucker and woulda also buyed whole librayr of steam and also pirated game for fun through rapidshare premimum ha ha
1TB @ 740MB/sec!? Whoa! You me where I can get these babies and I will start applying for that loan!
I assume this is like the first gen RevoDrive where they have the garbage collection built in the hardware so there is no need for OS level TRIM.
I like the idea of a raid with these cards, have 4 working or more together. I wonder if OCZ will make them for pci 3.0 later but hopefully not in 10 years from now. I think they could really take this to new heights.
Unfortunately there are few motherboards that support boot from pcie.
Ver' nice, how much?
man..
I almost died in laughter
This is part of my next build.