OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid: Solid-State Speed With Hard Drive Capacity

Features
By Andrew Ku
published

If you're tempted to buy a PCI Express-based SSD and add your own conventional storage, OCZ's RevoDrive Hybrid could might suit you. A 120 GB SSD and 1 TB of disk space come together on a four-lane PCIe card to serve up an advanced caching solution.

Test Setup And Benchmarks

Swipe to scroll horizontally
Test Hardware
ProcessorIntel Core i5-2500K (Sandy Bridge), 32 nm, 3.3 GHz, LGA 1155, 6 MB Shared L3, Turbo Boost Enabled
MotherboardASRock Z68 Extreme4, BIOS v1.4
MemoryKingston Hyper-X 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR3-1333 @ DDR3-1333, 1.5 V
System DriveOCZ Vertex 3 240 GB SATA 6Gb/s
Tested DrivesCrucial m4 128 GB SATA 6Gb/s, Firmware: 0002
Row 5 - Cell 0 Intel SSD 311 20 GB SATA 3Gb/s
Row 6 - Cell 0 Western Digital Caviar Green 2 TB SATA 3Gb/s
Row 7 - Cell 0 OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid 1 TB PCIe x4, Firmware: 2.13
GraphicsPalit GeForce GTX 460 1 GB
Power SupplySeasonic 760 W, 80 PLUS
System Software and Drivers
Operating SystemWindows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
DirectXDirectX 11
DriverGraphics: Nvidia 280.26RST: 10.6.0.1002Virtu: 1.1.101
Swipe to scroll horizontally
Benchmarks
PCMark Vantage v1.0.2, Default Settings
Adobe Photoshop CS5Default Settings
Norton Internet Security 2011Intelligent Scanning: Off
Crysis 2Patches: DX11 with high res textures, v1.09, 1680x1050, DX11, High Quality
World of Warcraft: Cataclysmv4.2, 1680x1050, DX9, Fair Quality
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 21680x1050, Extra Quality
Andrew Ku
32 Comments Comment from the forums
  • aznshinobi
    This should be compared with the Seagate Momentus XT, where's that?
    Reply
  • LuckyDucky7
    Except for those who don't have SATA 6GB/s controllers on their motherboards, this product is a little redundant.

    I mean, it's really cool and all, but since Vertex 3 drives on their own run about 200 bucks for 120GB, you could get 2 x OCZ Vertex 3's in RAID, and a high-performance 1TB 7200 RPM drive like the Western Digital Caviar Black (the one mounted there is 5400RPM) for the same price as this drive.

    So instead of the rather limited 120GB, you'd get 240GB of SSD storage instead, along with a faster hard drive. Because with 240GB, who needs cache?
    Reply
  • chumly
    What a dumb idea.
    Reply
  • zybch
    LuckyDucky7Except for those who don't have SATA 6GB/s controllers on their motherboards, this product is a little redundant.I mean, it's really cool and all, but since Vertex 3 drives on their own run about 200 bucks for 120GB, you could get 2 x OCZ Vertex 3's in RAID, and a high-performance 1TB 7200 RPM drive like the Western Digital Caviar Black (the one mounted there is 5400RPM) for the same price as this drive.So instead of the rather limited 120GB, you'd get 240GB of SSD storage instead, along with a faster hard drive. Because with 240GB, who needs cache?Yeah, like i want to use 'scary'RAID in my system. Screw that.
    Reply
  • alidan
    zybchYeah, like i want to use 'scary'RAID in my system. Screw that.
    than i believe use a raid 5, i think thats it, raid the 2 ssds and get another hdd in there as a backup for the two ssds
    Reply
  • rantoc
    alidanthan i believe use a raid 5, i think thats it, raid the 2 ssds and get another hdd in there as a backup for the two ssds
    For a raid 5 at least 3 drives is needed. And the chipset integrated raid5 solutions don't have powerful checksum offloading either meaning its either slow or hogs the cpu. Sure raid 5 is awesome in its ways but it also has its drawbacks.
    Reply
  • billybobser
    Just raid 0 and actively backup important files yourself if you can't take the drawbacks of it.

    If something just created is really worth saving, save it twice. Else just a back up image per week.
    Reply
  • shqtth
    This should be compared with the Seagate Momentus XT, where's that?
    ..

    It should be !


    Also why use 5400rpm? why not 7200rpm? Or use the XT.


    To me, this product looks like its hurting. Overpriced.


    I tested a few of the XT's are they are quick. Pretty much constant 100+ data and super low latency on common tasks.
    Reply
  • Reynod
    Could you please look at a direct comparison with the Momentus XT please?

    I have one as well.

    From what I can see this is a bit better than the XT but it would be good to know Andrew.

    Cheers !
    Reply
  • nebun
    zybchYeah, like i want to use 'scary'RAID in my system. Screw that.download the correct drivers and set it up correctly and you will have no issues....i have been using raid 0 for over 5 years with no issues at all
    Reply