OCZ PCI-Express SSD Special
Published by Marc Büchel on 05.12.12Page:
Area of Application and Performance
OCZ's RevoDrive 3 X2 is their fastest PCI Express card we're having a look at today. According to the manufacturer sequential throughput rates of more than 1 Gigabyte per second can be reached using this drive, which we've been able to confirm during our tests. Although those drives are available since more than a year, single controller drives are still not capable of reaching such speeds by quite a margin. Therefore the RevoDrive 3 X2 can be recommended for workloads which benefit from exceptionally high throughput rates. So far we haven't been talking about the IOPS: in this case we have to say they are on an impressing level too. For random reads we measured almost 190'000 IOPS at 4k block size which is amazingly fast. Especially in multimedia workstations this expansion card will be able to accelerate processes.
Specifications |
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| Capacities | 240 GB, 480 GB, 960 GB | |
| Interface | PCI Express 2.0 x4 | |
| NAND Flash | MLC | |
| Form Factor | Full height | |
| Boot Device | Yes | |
| 240 GB Performance | Read: up to 1500 MB/s Write: up to 1225 MB/s IOPS: up to 200'000 at 4K |
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| 480 GB Performance | Read: up to 1500 MB/s Write: up to 1250 MB/s IOPS: up to 230'000 at 4K |
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| 960 GB Performance | Read: up to 1500 MB/s Write: up to 1300 MB/s IOPS: up to 230'000 at 4K |
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Prices |
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| Toppreise.ch | Geizhals.at | |
| RevoDrive 3 X2 240 GB | CHF 494.45 | EUR 454.78 |
| RevoDrive 3 X2 480 GB | CHF 732.65 | EUR 671.75 |
| RevoDrive 3 X2 960 GB | CHF 1'173.30 | EUR 1'110.77 |
OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 - Performance |
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| If you want to compare performance values of the OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 with more than 50 other SSD's we recommend to have a look at our SSD Charts: SSD Charts: 52 SSDs | |
| Sequential write | |
| Blocksize | Throughput |
| 4k | 1'128'777 KB/s |
| 16k | 1'267'387 KB/s |
| 32k | 1'290'256 KB/s |
| 64k | 1'291'447 KB/s |
| 128k | 1'288'648 KB/s |
| 256k | 1'291'486 KB/s |
| Sequential Read | |
| Blocksize | Throughput |
| 4k | 804'525 KB/s |
| 16k | 1'168'743 KB/s |
| 32k | 1'236'022 KB/s |
| 64k | 1'345'655 KB/s |
| 128k | 1'438'453 KB/s |
| 256k | 1'460'560 KB/s |
| Random write IOPS | |
| Blocksize | Throughput |
| 4k | 189'164 KB/s |
| 16k | 79'284 KB/s |
| 64k | 14'203 KB/s |
| 96k | 11'902 KB/s |
| 128k | 4'174 KB/s |
| Random read IOPS | |
| Blocksize | Throughput |
| 4k | 160'832 KB/s |
| 16k | 47'147 KB/s |
| 64k | 16'426 KB/s |
| 96k | 12'569 KB/s |
| 128k | 4'234 KB/s |
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