| OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 PCI-E Solid State Drive |  |
| Reviews - Featured Reviews: Storage | |
| Written by Olin Coles | |
| Monday, 15 August 2011 | |
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ATTO Disk BenchmarkThe ATTO Disk Benchmark program is free, and offers a comprehensive set of test variables to work with. In terms of disk performance, it measures interface transfer rates at various intervals for a user-specified length and then reports read and write speeds for these spot-tests. There are some minor improvements made to the 2.46 version of the program that allow for test lengths up to 2GB, but all of our benchmarks are conducted with 256MB total length. ATTO Disk Benchmark requires that an active partition be set on the drive being tested. Please consider the results displayed by this benchmark to be basic bandwidth speed performance indicators.
ATTO Disk Benchmark: Queue Depth 4 (Default)
ATTO Disk Benchmark: Queue Depth 10Our basic bandwidth speed tests begin with the OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 PCI-E SSD installed into the Intel P67-Express motherboard's 8x PCI-Express port. Using the ATTO Disk Benchmark tool, the test drive performs file transfers ranging from 0.5 KB to 8192 KB. This 480GB model RVD3X2-FHPX4-480G reveals 1568 MBps maximum read speed that plateaus from 1024-8192 KB file chunks, and 1402 MBps peak write bandwidth plateaus from 512-8192 KB. These results both exceed OCZ's own specifications of 1500/1250 MB/s for the RevoDrive 3 X2. Using a recommended ATTO queue depth of 10 the performance results increase to 1580 MBps read and 1413 MBps write.
In the next section, Benchmark Reviews tests sequential performance using the CrystalDiskMark 3.0 software tool...
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Comments
Not that it's of any real importance but would be interested to know just how quickly this could boot into Win7.
@ OCZ They say three min.
Wow
In which case, hot # that's fast.
(550MB/sec) ... windows 7 64 boots in around 24seconds
(ASUS Rampage III Extreme & Intel Core I7 980x at 4GHz)
Also bought several X2 series for my workstations at office, they
do almost the same startup times for windows - dont think it will get
any faster than this but hey - getting my fist coffe takes longer
than 24secs so i dont care!
480GB: RVD3X2-FHPX4-480G $3,304.81NZD
for that sort of money I could buy 4x 120GB SSD's + an x4 PCIe SAS/SATA6Gbps raid controller for $1,866.07 and I'd still have plenty of money left over for a really descent PC to put it in
#tweakers.net/pricewatch/287789/ocz-revodrive-3-x2-pci-express-ssd-240gb-240gb.html#tab:prices
I don't know how much they will charge you for shipping it to New Zealand:P
but this is a minus "- SCSI architecture prohibits TRIM with Windows OS"
why even mention the + if it doesn't work
However, in this article, I wonder which SATA controller would throw up 3 or 6 GB/s...it's 3 or 6 Gb/s afaik. On the other hand, the 8 GB/s of an 8x v2.0 PCI-x are more or less enough for those beasts...
I do have a few OCZ 'Agility' and 'Solid' SSD's and I'm happy with their performance and prices.
I see OCZ as a good choice in SSD technology.