OCZ RevoDrive Review: SSD RAID + PCI-Express
Test System, HDTune
Our Test Methodologies: Under each test condition, the Solid State Drives tested here were installed as secondary volumes in our testbed, with a standard spinning hard disk for the OS and benchmark installations. The SSDs were left blank without partitions wherever possible, unless a test required them to be partitioned and formatted, as was the case with our ATTO, Vantage, and CrystalDiskMark benchmark tests. And all drives were secure erased prior to the start of any testing. 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 i5-750 Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3R (P55 Chipset) ATI Radeon 5970 6144MB Corsair DDR3-1066 Integrated on board WD Caviar Black 1TB (OS Drive) Crucial C300 120GB GSkill Phoenix Pro 60GB Corsair Force 100GB |
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Relevant Software: Windows 7 Ultimate Intel 9.1.1.1025 DirectX 11 Catalyst 10.5 Benchmarks Used: HD Tach v3.0.1.0 ATTO v2.46 CrystalDiskMark v3 PCMark Vantage SiSoftware Sandra 2010 SP1 |
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Given the age and limitations of HDTach, we've elected to adopt HDTune in its stead. HDTune is capable of performing a wide variety of performance tests—far more than HDTach—and can also be used to measure file system performance.
HD Tune's results still show the Revo way ahead of its competition, but the numbers look more like CrystalMark and less like SiSoft Sandra. Again, the gap between write performance is much smaller than read performance, though we should note that the majority of desktop scenarios mostly involve reads anyway. We should also note that modest, in this case, means a performance delta of 20-25 percent as compared to a 50-70 percent gain.
