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Here's that interconnect. More sturdy then you'd imagine, you pop in or remove the PCB as easy as a SATA connector. Mind you that once you remove the 2nd PCB and insert the card in the PC and power it up ... your configuration will be screwed and there's no easy way to fix it unless you can access the RAID controller SBIOS. We learned about this the hard way ahem ;)

Here we have the RAID controller, OCZ is being secretive about it, seems proprietary and their own IC. To my knowledge though OCZ has not taken over any RAID controller companies, and this IC has nothing to do with Indilinx alright.  It doesn't matter though. Again, thanks to the VCA 2.0 virtualized software layer this unit will support NCQ, SMART, and more importantly TRIM mode and even a power failure data safe guard. So redundancy/failsafe wise the RevoDrive 3 series will be interesting as well.

Once of the four SandForce 2281 controllers, with these you actually get the actual full TRIM support in combo with the VCA layer. Under Windows 7 or deleting files off of, will result in LBAs being TRIMed by the SF2281 controllers.

PCI Express 4x - In the past OCZ used a PCI-X RAID controller to keep costs down, but that's gone now. OCZ won't disclose the name of the controller vendor but a quick peek at the card shows that it's native PCIe tied into the RAID controller. The upper right IC by the way is am Enpiron 6 Amp Feature Rich Buck Converter with Integrated Inductor for power regulation. Each PCB has one of these.

If we zoom in at the Micron asynchronous NAND ICs we also stumble into a sticker, I betcha that the development codename for this product was Gorilla ... :)