OCZ RevoDrive X2 Review: Killer SSD Performance

Name: OCZ RevoDrive X2 Review: Killer SSD Performance - Page 9
Brand: OCZ

by Dave Altavilla — Monday, November 08, 2010, 10:06 AM EDT

The following PCMark Vantage HDD tests are more write intensive and in some cases stress the Achilles' Heel of the average storage subsystem, that being random write performance

Futuremark's PCMark Vantage

http://www.futuremark.com

In this series of more write-intensive test scenarios (with the exception of application loading), the RevoDrive X2 really begins to smoke, beating out even the ioXtreme SSD, that retails for over three times its cost per GB. The Windows Media Center score is most impressive perhaps, but the RD X2 takes top honors in all four of these scripted test runs. With the read-intensive Application Loading test, we're looking at over a 100% performance gain over the average SSD and about a 10% edge over the ioXtreme's score. To say we were impressed with these results would be an understatement. With some of these Vantage numbers backing up our synthetic test results, the OCZ RevoDrive X2 just became our new favorite SSD product.

Tags: SSD, OCZ, Storage, RAID, Enterprise, PCI Express, solid state, Revodrive, RevDrive X2

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