OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid 1TB HDD/SSD Review

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

Crystalmark is a useful benchmark to measure theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSD’s. We are using V3.0 x64.

The RevoDrive Hybrid benefits from multiple runs, as the data gets cached in the drive. Above we show the first run of the drive with CrystalDiskMark. These are already impressive results, showing 744 MB/s sequential read and 690 MB/s sequential write. 4k QD32 performance is also very impressive.

By the fourth run, performance has increased to 800 MB/s read and 700 MB/s write. We noticed some fluctuation with the 4k and 4k QD32 results, but The QD32 results always averaged between 130 MB/s and 145 MB/s read and 440 MB/s and 470 MB/s write.

4K QD32 performance is a little lower when it comes to the read test, averaging between 130.3 MB/s and 150 MB/s. Write performance however is class leading, just falling behind the RevoDrive 3 x2 480 GB at 441.4 MB/s

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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.

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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.