OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid PCI Express SSD Review
Test System and ATTO Disk Benchmark
Our Test Methodologies: Under each test condition, the drives tested here were installed as secondary volumes in our testbed, with a standard spinning hard disk for the OS and benchmark installations, with the exception being the OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid, which must be the boot volume to function properly. Our testbed's motherboard was updated with the latest BIOS available as of press time and AHCI mode was enabled. Windows firewall, automatic updates and screen savers were all disabled before testing. In all test runs, we rebooted the system and waited several minutes for drive activity to settle before invoking a test.
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Hardware Used: Intel Core i7-2600K Asus P8Z6-V Pro (Z68 Chipset, AHCI Enabled) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 4GB Kingston DDR3-1600 Integrated on board WD Raptor 150GB (OS Drive) OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid (1TB) OCZ Vertex 3 MaxIOPs (240GB) Seagate Momentux XT (500GB) Intel 311 SSD w/ Rator (SRT) |
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Relevant Software: Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 x64 Intel 9.2.0.1030, iRST 10.5.1027 DirectX 11 NVIDIA GeForce 275.33 Benchmarks Used: ATTO v2.47 CrystalDiskMark v3.01 x64 PCMark Vantage |
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In all of our graphs moving forward, you're going to see three entries for the OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid, 1) where only the RevoDrive Hybrid's hard drive was tested, 2) the results from the first run of the benchmark after enabling the SSD cache, and 3) results from the third run of the benchmark with caching enabled. Our intent is to show the worst case performance scenario (HD alone) and best case performance (third run, SSD cache utilized). We compare the RevoDrive Hybrid to a Momentus XT, which is another hybrid solution, as well as a standalone SSD.
The ATTO disk benchmark clearly shows the advantage of RevoDrive Hybrid's SSD cache. The HD tests end up somewhat below the Momentus XT, but once the RevoDrive Hybrid's cache is enabled, transfers go through the roof. The Revo Hybrid managed write speeds in excess of 800MB/s and reads of just over 1GB/s, which crush the standalone SSD.
