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It doesn’t matter how good any of the synthetic suites are, the real meat of the testing has to be under absolute real world conditions. This proves difficult as to record results we have to narrow down fluctuation. Therefore while we would say these are the most useful results to get from this review, there is always going to be a slight margin for error – its not absolutely scientific.
Firstly we installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit Edition onto each of the drives and performed a clean update from Microsoft with all patches and security fixes. We then install a basic suite of software, such as Office, Firefox and Adobe Design, then we install AVG free antivirus. We used a digital watch for this startup and repeated the test five times for each drive – once we had these five results we averaged the results and took that for the final figure. With the downloaded driver, the RevoDrive 3 X2 can be configured as a boot drive. Not all motherboards can support boot over PCIe at this time, but we had no problems when using the Asus motherboard in our test bed with the latest bios update.
Please be aware that the results above are not directly comparable as we are using a different motherboard and system configuration with the Revodrive 3 x2 480GB (Asus X58 Rampage III Black Edition).
The RevoDrive 3 x2 480GB loads the level in 13 seconds, compared with 17 for the previous leader – the MAX IOPS. Again these results are not directly comparable as the Revodrive is running via a different system, with a 990x and Asus Black Edition motherboard.
Its a lot of money for a drive (or card in this case, whatever its classed as), but for the high end audience this would rock. especially for video editing and streaming of HD content. I would guess that tv studios would use these a lot.
they don’t worth the money yet, way too expensive, not reliable, i better with two Raptors.
I dont think this is meant as a mainstream solution. I cant ever see the need for this myself.
A 120gb SATA 3 drive is more than enough for the mainstream audience, or even the high end audience, but this is a heck of a showcase for OCZ.
Why do you say unreliable 63jax?? have there been reports?
I heard the last ones had a fairly high failure rate. read a thread on it (think it might have been OCZ’s forum).
Hadnt read anything about these. quitre a few reviews up already for the 3 series and everyone seems to say they are ass kicking everything else.
Yeah, very nice. but id expect a new gaming laptop for the same price. PRO market product. scary speeds !
and relating to the numerous and infamous BSOD and freezes found with the new Sandforce controllers?
Are these drives failing too? or was that older ones? I dont think OCZ had a huge issue with 2281 failures. I think this was all sorted out a while ago….
i meant the SSDs in general are not reliable, OCZ has the highest return rate from them all, the safest right now are Intel’s drives, kinda…
i personally will wait a bit longer to refine them.
Just a note to say that running check disk on a revodrive is a bad idea. It is OK to run check disk switch free but I lost 40 GB to bad secotrs when I attempted to run checkdisk with the “b” switch. ie.e “check for recover bad sectors”.