RevoDrive 3 max IOPS: 1,9 Go/s!

Performance do you want in here! Storage that will quickly, very quickly ...

OCZ Technoolgy, a major field of high performance storage, especially on the SSD, and presents the RevoDrive 3 RevoDrive X2 version 3 Max IOPS. Thought to have the maximum bandwidth applications using multiple cores, these new editions of SSD-based PCI-Express 4x offer more speed on the bus that SATA III to 6 Gbps, through the use of two controllers SandForce.


Daryl Lang, vice president of product management at OCZ said on that occasion: "Designed to leverage the benefits of multi-threaded processors, the RevoDrive Max IOPS offers both performance and functionality required by customers to meet to more intensive workloads. "

These new products will be available from 120 to 480 GB for the first adapter and 240 to 960 GB X2 card. The raw performance are announced with monstrous sequential flow of over 1.9 GB / s read and 1.7 GB / s write, and the ability to write some random mode 245,000 operations per second (with blocks of 4k). The MTBF of the two RevoDrive 3 Max IOPS is announced in a million hours!

Knowing that we should quickly look at the SSD, you can imagine, we are happy to try one of these RevoDrive 3 Max IOPS.

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OCZ RevoDrive hybrid vs Intel Z68 caching of the DSS

OCZ is powerful fast.

Where Intel's Z68 completed a normal hard disk with a relatively small SSD, OCZ takes the approach reverses on the Revo hybrid - band literally a hard drive of the laptop for the Revo Drive 3 X 2. The objective is obviously to combine the advantages of two storage technologies, namely of large capacity, high transfer rates and the fast access time. Caching on the side of things is managed by a software called Dataplex, developed by NVELO. According to the information of the company, Dataplex done a better job than response Smart Intels technology.

Our team at the Computex was able to get some numbers comparing the two systems. On a Z68 system equipped with a 500 GB HDD (7 200 rpm) and a non-specified 60 GB OCZ SSD, Intel SRT achieved a score of 25195 later in hard disk if PCMark Vantage mode Max. 28071 Out Dataplex enabled, topped with coming system. If this kind of improvement is possible with the software, we hope that OCZ will also bundle Dataplex with its SSDs in the future, which allows users to implement their own SSD cache even without Z68 of Intel. While the NVELO claims that its software works with any combination of HDD and SSD and any combination of AMD or Intel Chipset/CPU running Windows 7, OCZ has currently no plans for expansion outside of its own products.

OCZ has also shown at Computex 2011 some new business models. Among them were 3 EX Vertex, a drive that shares all the characteristics of the Vertex 3 Pro but uses SLC flash. Read and write speeds are identical to 550 MB/s and 525 MB/s respectively, but it can support an IOPS than than the Pro 4 K block size, reaching 80 000 where the MLC drive is estimated at 70,000 IOPS. In addition, all the specifications and capabilities are identical to the Pro model.

No show is complete with some amazing technological force raw demonstration. OCZ was a system with six Z - Drive R4 88 to 1 million IOPS. Who did not want that?

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OCZ RevoDrive 3: the ultimate SSD?

SSDS are both a break with the past and a category of products evolving. For users accustomed to performance today all relating to conventional hard drives, it is often unnecessary to look far to find considerably better: the simple DSS interfaced in SATA are often capable of speeds exceeding 3 GB/s. In this range, it would be difficult not to recommend the last models Crucial and OCZ and more particularly the OCZ Vertex 3.

Always in the field of SATA SSDS, we begin to find more in addition to model controller based on SandForce SF-2200, and they already announced as future reference on the subject (at least when bugs have been eliminated); the Crucial m4 is probably the least expensive product in this category. But in any event, it is clear that the ceiling is the SATA 6 GB/s is not yet close to represent a problem in the segment of desktop computers.

Of course, there are still performance enthusiasts who want more; But if the SSD 2.5 "current are not fast enough to meet your needs, you have choice to divert you the SATA and its bandwidth limited to 600 MB/s. If allow you your finances, you may have the eye on a connected to PCI Express SSD or a cluster SSD RAID connected in SATA; in both cases, you can say goodbye to the support of the TRIM on Windows. Among the models of this type (planned for workstations), the OCZ RevoDrive RevoDrive X 2 include and probably best-known, for the simple reason that they can be used as a boot drive, which is not always the case in this category.

The problem of these two products is that they are built on the same controller that the OCZ Vertex 2, while it is now on the market the 3 Vertex, appealing to the second generation and whose performance SandForce controller exceed those of the PCI Express models as is RAID. What's more natural for OCZ, therefore, renew its range and launch today its RevoDrive 3 X 2, a product based controller SF-2200 and whose announced performance are worlds away from what we have seen so far, as shown in the table below:

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The secret of these impressive figures? OCZ indicates that the RevoDrive 3 X 2 contains a PCI Express to SAS controller (against a controller PCI - X to SATA for RevoDrive X 2) and four second generation SandForce controllers.

RevoDrive 3 X 2 is therefore to Vertex 3 RevoDrive X 2 was the Vertex 2. The names have more sense when we know that the first Vertex contained an Indilinx controller; the Vertex 2 / RevoDrive were built around a first-generation SandForce controller Vertex 3 / RevoDrive 3 were passed to the second generation of the controller.

For storage, difficult to not be enthusiastic specialists! If you saw the video online by our friends from Engadget, RevoDrive X 3 is the first consumer SSD (LSI and Fusion-io are intended for businesses and therefore are not here) to promise speeds beyond 1 GB/s.

Unfortunately, if you are specialist storage, you know also that the fastest models are also the most expensive. If a Vertex 3 is already given, the equivalent of several Vertex 3 on a PCI Express card is even more. It's clearly a performance-oriented product, and those who wish to access will pay dearly.

Things are now clearly developed, is a series of important issues. How the RevoDrive 3 X 2 manages to display astronomical performance? Is it really his promises? Fixes the compatibility problem highlighted by Chris in his article OCZ RevoDrive X 2: faster than the SSD SSD?

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RevoDrive 3: 1500 230 000 IOPS and MB/s!

The California manufacturer OCZ has just officially unveil its new PCI Express format flash drives.

 

OCZ presents its new generation of DSS in PCI Express. The RevoDrive 3 of the Californian manufacturer are still storage solutions that take the form of a card with a PCIe 2.0 x 4 slot. There are a pair of SandForce controllers configured in RAID the VCA 2.0, and a high amount of MLC flash memory technology.OCZ offers its RevoDrive 3 in capacity of 240 and 480 GB. This SSD displays sequential flow of 1000 MB/s read for 925 MB/s write. Random performance are they up to 130 000 IOPS.RevoDrive 3 X 2 is it in 240, 480, and 960 GB capacities. It achieved sequential flows of 1500 MB/s read for 1250 MB/s write and random 230 000 IOPS performance! These SSD should be bootable (such as their predecessors), and compatible with one form or another of the TRIM command. They will be covered with a three year warranty. It is still unclear when and how much OCZ expects to launch its RevoDrive 3.

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Tom's Hardware: OCZ RevoDrive 3, the ultimate SSD?

Still only little spread, DSS already reached its limits of transfer. In Sata, manufacturers do not exceed the 6 GB/s. This is why that OCZ has decided to interface a SSD in PCIexpress. Therefore, performance is significantly better with 8 GB/s transfer rate, or 1 GB/s. Here is the RevoDrive 3.

OCZ RevoDrive 3: the ultimate SSD?

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The OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 Preview: Second-Gen SandForce Goes PCIe

Solid-state tech marches on, and we're already approaching SATA's 6 Gb/s ceiling. OCZ is once again stepping in with a PCIe-based solution with speed in reserve. The company's RevoDrive 3 X2 promises sequential transfers in excess of 1 GB/s.

SSDs are still one of those line-in-the-sand inflection points that change everything. But if you're accustomed to the throughput and responsiveness of a mechanical hard drive, there's very little reason to look beyond familiar SATA-based SSDs for a significantly better computing experience. The latest offerings from Crucial and OCZ deliver speeds often exceeding the limits of 3 Gb/s signaling, and if you have to have the best, it's hard for us not to recommend OCZ's Vertex 3.

The latest SandForce SF-2200-based drives are starting to roll out in greater volume, and they promise to serve as the performance benchmark by which other SSDs are measured (after the bugs are worked out, of course). Crucial's m4 is arguably a cheaper alternative for those that want higher performance, but either way, it's clear that nobody is going to be handicapped by SATA 6Gb/s on the desktop any time soon.

That's not to say there aren't enthusiasts interested in pushing the boundaries of storage performance. But if today's 2.5" SSDs aren't fast enough for your workload, you need to look beyond SATA's 600 MB/s limit. If you're an enthusiast and have the cash to spare, you may have your eye on a PCI Express-based SSD. Or, you're considering slinging several SATA-based drives together in a RAID configuration; either way, you sacrifice TRIM support in Windows. OCZ's RevoDrive and RevoDrive X2 are two of the most well-known workstation-oriented offerings, since they're bootable.

But those two products are centered on the controller at the heart of OCZ's last-gen Vertex 2 family. Today we have Vertex 3, which employs SandForce's second-generation controller and is capable of surpassing the performance of even those PCI Express-based boards when you harness a couple of them in RAID. It's only natural, then, that the company would follow up with an SF-2200-equipped RevoDrive 3 X2 to redefine enthusiast-class workstation storage performance.

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OCZ's newest PCI Express-based SSD claims impressive performance thanks to a PCIe-to-SAS controller (remember, the RevoDrive X2 employed PCI-X-to-SATA) and four second-gen SandForce controllers.

No doubt, the RevoDrive 3 X2 is to Vertex 3 as the RevoDrive X2 was to the Vertex 2. The names make more sense when you consider that the original Vertex was Indilinx-based. So, the Vertex 2/RevoDrive center on first-gen SandForce logic, and the Vertex 3/RevoDrive 3 simply put both devices on the same generational level.

If you're a storage nut, it's hard not to get excited. If you've seen the video by our friends at Engadget, the RevoDrive X3 is the first enthusiast drive (don't count the LSI or Fusion-io products destined for enterprise installs) claiming speeds beyond 1 GB/s.

But if you're a price-conscious storage nut, you're also probably painfully aware that the fastest devices are the most expensive. And if a Vertex 3 SSD is pricey, the equivalent of multiple Vertex 3s on a PCI Express card are naturally even more so. The name of the game here is performance, and you're going to pay dearly for access to it.

With that understanding, the only questions that remain are: How does this drive achieve those bold claims? What are the real-world performance numbers look like? And does the RevoDrive 3 solve the compatibility issues Chris Angelini discussed at the beginning of OCZ’s RevoDrive X2: When A Fast PCIe SSD Isn’t Fast Enough?

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