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The following images were taken at high-resolution and then cropped and scaled down. The camera used was a Canon 450D 12 MegaPixel.

And there you have it, the OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2, the X2 model can be easily recognized by the 2nd PCB, which is another cluster of two added SSDs really.

If you did not get what this product is by now, the unit is a bootable PCIe drive with RAID support and the current generation of SandForce controllers. Four SSDs (for the X2) tied together into one product running over RAID and then the data ends up at the PCIe slot.

With four controllers the RevoDrive 3 X2 is pushing 1.5GB/s reads and 1.2GB/s writes. OCZ is advertising up to 200,000 4KB random write IOPS, now we did not reach that number ... but got close enough. It is of course wahaaaay beyond anything you'd need on your average PC.

As you can see clearly, the two PCBs are connected towards each other. Each SSD partition of the four of them has 16 Micron 25nm asynchronous NAND flash ICs tied to them. Oh frack it, let me get a screwdriver.

Here we have the 2nd PCB detached, a small connector is responsible for the interconnect in-between the PCBs. Let me zoom in on that a little.