OCZ RevoDrive 80 GB PCI Express Solid State Disk Review

Posted on 2011-05-27 17:22:18 by Thomas De Maesschalck

Today, we will be looking at the OCZ RevoDrive 80 GB solid state drive, which is one of their mainstream PCI Express solid state drives. It features the following key features :

- Superb 4K random writes up to 70,000 IOPS
- PCI Express interface for superior speeds of up to 540 MB/s
- Onboard RAID 0 for twice the throughput
- 2 million hours MTBF
- 3 years warranty

Here are the changes in this major update :

- Major revamp of the review, with numerous updates and corrections.
- Retested the SSDs with the latest firmware.
- Upgraded to the newer IO Meter 2008 benchmark with tests aligned at 4 KB.
- The SSDs were also tested with compressible and non-compressible data, and the results averaged for a more accurate representation of real life performance.
- Rewrote the section on SSD Maintenance, and the Conclusion.



Link: TechARP

OCZ RevoDrive 80 GB PCI Express Solid State Disk




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