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

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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.

SSD Caching: Gaming Performance

We've already explored the I/O characteristics of level loading in SSD Performance In Crysis 2, World Of Warcraft, And Civilization V. These operations are mostly read-based at low queue depths. As such, the performance increase attributable to caching tends to be dramatic. After one run, the time it takes to load a level is roughly the same it would be on an SSD.

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  • aznshinobi
    This should be compared with the Seagate Momentus XT, where's that?
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  • 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?
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  • chumly
    What a dumb idea.
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  • 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.
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  • 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
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • shqtth
    This should be compared with the Seagate Momentus XT, where's that?
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    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.
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  • 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 !
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  • 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
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