Thread: OCZ RevoDrive

With SandForce-based SSDs now commonplace, and ever varying Capacities Being released on What Feels Like a weekly basis, we'd seen all we Thought There Was to see from SandForce. OCZ have decided That it's not done with SandForce Though, and you conjure up the Revo, a 4x PCI Express expansion cards configured with two controllers SandForce in a high-speed RAID 0 setup.

OCZ Claims That Deliver the dog Revo sequential read Speeds in Excess of 540MB/sec, an incredible speed for a piece of non-server storage. The 4x PCI-E 1.1 interface Used Gives more bandwidth Than a pair of SATA cables (Rather Than 1GB/sec around 550MB/sec). Data is controlled by an on-board SATA 3Gbps RAID controller (the Revo ships with the array pr-built), in turn connected to a PCI-E bridge chip.



In essence, the Revo is just two 120GB 60GB OCZ SandForce 2E Vertex disks strapped together (see over for the review of this drive), There Are Other version of Revo, from 60GB to 480GB. The casings Have Been ditched, Leaving the chips Exposed, so it's easy to spot That the 128GB of NAND is split across 32 4GB Intel NAND modules, Fitted onto Both Sides of the card, with two SF-1222TA3 SBH SandForce controllers handling 64GB each.

These Are the Same as SF-1200 controllers Used in the Vertex 2E, Phoenix Pro G. Skill and Every Other SandForce drive on the market. As this is an OCZ drive Though, Both run the SF-1500 firmware, random write Which Speeds boasts improved version over the typical SF-1200 firmware.