Product Showscase

Product Showscase

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 350, it can be easily recognized by the bling reflective cover. We will be testing the 480 GB model today.

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 tied together into one product running over RAID and then the data ends up at the PCIe slot. The RAID controller sits actually below that little heatsink. Let me peel off the cover though, there you go:

With four controllers the RevoDrive 350 is pushing roughly 1.7 GB/s reads and writes. OCZ is advertising up to 140,000 4 KB random write IOPS. That is of course wahaaaay beyond anything you'd need on your average PC, however a lower number opposed to the last gen RevoDrive 3 X2.

As you can see clearly, multiple SSD partitions, four of them have Toshiba 19nm asynchronous NAND flash ICs tied to them and as you can see, four Sandforce controllers are present. Let's zoom in a little more up-close and personal, next page please...