OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid 1TB HDD/SSD Review

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell October 13, 2011 Featured Announcement, Hard Drives, SSD Drives

For testing, the drives are all wiped and reset to factory settings by HDDerase V4. We try to use free or easily available programs and some real world testing so you can compare our findings against your own system.

This is a good way to measure potential upgrade benefits.

Main test system (PCIe drives):

OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid 1TB HDD/SSD &
OCZ RevoDrive 3 x2 480GB Test System:
CPU: Intel Core i7 990x @ 4.8ghz
Cooler: Corsair H100 Performance Liquid Cooler
Motherboard: Asus Rampage III Black Edition
Memory: 12GB Kingston DDR3 @ 1600mhz 9-9-9-24
PSU: ADATA 1200W
Graphics: Nvidia GTX580
Chassis: Lian Li X2000F
Operating System: Windows 7 64 bit Enterprise
Monitor: Dell U2410

Compare system:

CPU: Intel Core i7 2600k
Cooler: Thermaltake Frio OCK
Motherboard: Asus P8P67 Deluxe
Memory: ADATA DDR3 2000mhz 9-11-9-24
PSU: ADATA 1200W
Graphics: Sapphire HD6950 Flex Edition
Chassis: Thermaltake Level 10 GT
Operating System: Windows 7 64 bit Enterprise
Monitor: Dell U2410

Other Drives (used in Core i7 2600k system above):
MemoRight FTM Plus 240GB SSD Review
Patriot Pyro 120GB SSD
OCZ RevoDrive 3 x2 480GB
Patriot Wildfire 120GB SSD OCZ Agility 3 240GB
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB
OCZ Vertex 3 MAX IOPS 240GB
ADATA S511 240GB
Intel 510 120GB
Corsair F100 100GB
OCZ Vertex 2 120GB
Crucial Real SSD C300 64GB
MemoRight FTM.25 115GB SSD
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB

Software:
Atto Disk Benchmark
CrystalMark
IOMeter
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call Of Pripyat

All our results were achieved by running each test five times with every configuration this ensures that any glitches are removed from the results. Trim is confirmed as running by typing fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify into the command line. A response of disabledeletenotify =0 confirms TRIM is active.

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12 comments

Thomas Davis
October 13, 2011 at 11:12 am

yay, kudos to OCZ. about time 🙂
Henry
October 13, 2011 at 11:35 am

Thats really good. Didnt think that would be possible. Is it just for Windows 7 ?
Tenfold High
October 13, 2011 at 11:36 am

I was wondering when something like this would be released, and it came quicker than I imagined. There will always be a trade off with a mechanical drive in the mix, but they seem to have it narrowed down a good bit.
Nought to do
October 13, 2011 at 11:44 am

great stuff. been waiting for something like this. reckon they could make a 2.5 inch drive like this? obviously it would be much thicker in dimensions and not practical for a laptop, but for a desktop? would make a lot of sense. 1TB sata 6GBps drive right at the limits of the platform for about £350?
Dennis
October 13, 2011 at 1:12 pm

This is really incredible. 1tb for under £400 at this speed? OCZ really do lead the way in SSD tech.
Fanrit
October 13, 2011 at 2:09 pm

How do I know if my motherboard can support this? ive read some dont allow for booting.?
Trevor
October 13, 2011 at 2:09 pm

Its still a fair bit of cash. are they making a smaller size? 500gb would be great for £200 🙂
thomasxstewart
October 13, 2011 at 5:18 pm

lousy drive for money. seagate has similar pci-e drive with 10X performance for same money.

drashek md
Dave
October 13, 2011 at 5:23 pm

thomasxstewart.

what bollocks. 10GB/s read via a 2.5 inch drive and SSD combo for £400? lol.
procupine14
October 15, 2011 at 2:25 pm

Nought to do,

I believe that Segate makes a drive in 300GB and 500GB sizes that is a hybrid SSD and mechanical HDD. I’m pretty sure that it even fits into a laptop. Now, I’m not sure about relative performance and they are pretty pricey for what they are but they do exhist.

Now this OCZ drive, that is a nice piece. I would probably use something like this on my media PC for encoding purposes or the like. My RAID setup seems to slow down when running a lot of reads and writes. I bet that this would be substantially better at doing those type of things.