OCZ Revodrive 3 X2 480GB PCIe SSD Unboxing, Benchmarking & Initial Thoughts

[danthemanzizle]

so is this a internal raid 0 version of revodrive 3?

[RadisHASii]

pretty fast? lol check your bios :D

[GodSonLT]

its strange nut my hdd loads faster then his uber fast ssd really strange i seen ssd's loading windows for around 3sec and hes is over 10 i gues its prety bad ;/ (bay the way im using instant boost utility of my mobo thats why it is really fast compare to this

[TrollerCoaster1]

@GodSonLT >2012

>using bloatware

faggot

[GodSonLT]

@TrollerCoaster1 im not fag like u r retarded moron learn to be noce because u r worthles scum

[firebld]

I have OCZ 2 120GB for boot and 600GB 10000 rpm raptor for my my game. I think ive got much fter boot then this on sabertooth 1155 with i2700K and gtx 590. dont think i will get this disk

[sangolt88]

Weird, my pc with a regular HDD starts up at about the same time, using Windows 7.

[oWhiteMonster]

Slower than my harddrive

[SwiftHDX]

My HDD didn't even reach 70MB/Sec!!!

[tubesock700]

My Intel X-25M G2 160GB boots much faster. Something has to be haywire there!

[mrman365]

I agree, quite slow for an ssd. and the benchmark takes its time reaching its maximum read/write speed.

My Corsair F60 60gb  sata2 boots up faster..

Im looking to upgrade it to a sata 3 drive but thought I would consider a pci-e card... watching this, im not to sure and the pci-e solution...

[h0rnytoad1]

my msi gt780dxr with crucial m4 120gb boots in 8seconds and its alaptop. sorry but man you got hosed on your mobo.

[KlingonSpider]

4:20 lol, my SSD is faster than your SSD!! hahahaha

[t0md0g]

You have spent a lot of money to not have set up your bios correctly. Hopefully you figured it out after the video.

[djwhitty]

@t0md0g Yo! You seem to know what your talking about because everyone liked your comment :)! I am thinking of getting this Revodrive as well and I seen it load up much faster on other videos than this one. How did you know his Bios wasent set up correctly and how would I go about setting up my Bios correctly myself :)? Thanks man :D!

[nbusin1]

@t0md0g Can you elaborate!

[juliandizy]

That's pretty fast????? My 3 yr old HP laptop with a vertex LE boots in HALF the time..

[snedie69er]

@juliandizy

A Citroen C3 will start, and set off faster than a Veyron. Doesn't make it better now does it.

[danthemanzizle]

@juliandizy booting is a retarded test.

[conasol1]

alot of talk and less action, sucks

[khalisz]

Hello, what is the brand name of your benchtable please ? :)

[the14u36]

omg 2x 590s

[belartful]

On an x58 chipset (Rampage 3 Extreme) do you suppose this drive's TRIM will work? Or is it completely up to the the card itself regardless of Mobo's chipset?

[l3E7Studios]

@belartful It's up to the drive, however, you do want Windows 7 for TRIM to work.

[iattiladravecz]

@belartful There is no trim support in any RAID config u have to use a single drive.

[turnercarl]

hi i have seen on the the web loads of read and write test using bench mark test . could you tell what read speed do you get in games.

[l33ton]

I have a normal 7200RPM drive and I swear, my windows 7 takes the same time to boot up.

[Nibbbling]

@l33ton

Yeah... This is really slow for an SSD boot.

[lewisner]

Got one of these arriving soon.

[biohead66]

2 gtx590s.revodrive ssd.what a beast!

[lifeborder]

I wonder how many "Ah" he mentioned on this video. 

[gothen1234]

This guy sure does have a knack for pointing out the obvious.

[TheMasterofganja]

Revo Drives are so sick. Too bad OCZ has such a bad track record with their SSDs. On the other hand, I wouldn't care if SSDs only lasted 6 months at a time; the speed is well worth it.

[GameTrailersPlanet]

you get a 1tb revodrive hybrid 910mb read/write for 400 bucks

[zomgwtfbbqbagel]

Slow boot up =/ Why?

[IROHINE]

Holy shit, that thing costs more then my two 590's!

[saguerraty]

@trubyd44 are you going to buy the new intel 2011?? or wait for a evga sr-3?? with new generation xeons?

[saguerraty]

@trubyd44 why don´t you use a raid card with a bunch of really fast sata 3 ssd´s ?? on raid 5 ??, shouldnt that be faster than one revo drive?? :)

[AIRW0LF666]

@saguerraty yes ssd´s on sata 3 are faster.

here you can see one:

/watch?v=XEIpjTZ_TNM&list=LLvP­mO27xACLp7YQMXSuCjuQ&feature=m­h_lolz

[jbx907]

he wanted tri features, you cant use trim with raid on regular ocz ssd's

[HDSamsungNCIX]

ssd good



[jdjtte]

my San disk ssd finished before the window animation comes together

[lewisner]

"They have a Revodrive 3 sticker so people can tell" Erm...on the back? Why not have a separate sticker for the front?

[nerfmasterrick123]

I can't find this answer anywhere, are the revo drives actually the size they state or is that the total size? What I mean is that sometimes these pci ssd will say they are for instance 240gb but in actuality they are only 60gb because its 4 drives in raid 0. I don't want to buy to 240gb get it and find out its too small to actually use.

[B335430104]

You bought a $1700 SSD but you have NO WATER COOLING? WHY?

[sugarpuffextrem]

Showing startupspeeds is kinda useless because initiating hardware is not based on hdd speed. If you start remove like your second gfx card boot times will probably increase.

[Lobos222]

I would want to see tests on loading slow games. Like Arma 2 loading a big mission, streaming to see if there are any texture popings or Shogun 2 is another good candidate. It takes a long time to load each battle on a 7200rpm.

[snapdaddy357]

Do you feel that it out performs your previous SSD? Significantly? I was going to add it to my new build in a workstation capacity,and just trying to do some homework.

[MrSavloskis]

Can run minecraft?

[isaac9517]

@MrSavloskis what?

[Jonislol]

lol windows boot was pretty slow. my hdd does as good as that :P

[isaac9517]

@Jonislol yeah almost the same of my 5400 rpm hdd gunna get a new faster hdd and ssd

[TableWolfMusic]

Does the windows virtual memory swap file wear these flash drives out? If yes, while leaving this revo as your master drive for OS and games, Is it better to put that windows swap small capacity partion seperately on a slave mechanical (non ssd) hdd raid?

[boydostechtalk]

Great video. Looking to put my brand new RevoDrive 3 X2 through its paces :)

[alphavortex1]

don't touch the contacts on the chips!  Static electricity fries memory... you'll think it was a bad drive meanwhile...

[blanarahul]

I am the biggest idiot! 5.0 Gbps was the band width usage. Sorry truby!

[blanarahul]

*more than the speed of the pci slot.

[blanarahul]

5 Gbps! But that's impossible ! Even if the speed is 1 GBps it should be 8 Gbps which is more than the speed of the revodrive! How bizarre!

[blanarahul]

Truby one thing I wish to tell you 1024 MB/s = 1 GB/s

[MrDog358]

У меня baracuda 2tb во сновном столькоже времени тратит на назагрузку даже чуть быстрея.Может он меньше нагривается и чуть быстрея моего.Но он стоит огогогооооооо.Лучшибы купил 2hdd и объединил в raid-масив так дешевли будит.Но платить тысич 50-60 или меньше этой суммы несобираюсь

[54carlje]

Where do you get it?

[54carlje]

What model/type case are you using?

[2002drumsonly]

Enjoy your video's. Would raiding 2 x 120gb Revo's be worth doing? Thank you.

[klevencash]

What`s wrong with this system? My computer boots up WAY faster than this, and i`ve just got the slowest Intel 40gb SSD. Weird..

[mrfastreaction]

I think his system memory is now a bottle kneck

[MrTrustafox]

well that didn't seem a quite boot. for saying its meant to be a lightening fast drive!

[WilliamNaville]

if you are not running a server or something this is never gonna get fully used to its potential....imean if you download something you will be luckily to have 10mb/s,and most programs dont need that much read/write

[zarja73]

HI! please help! I have a Revodrive3 x2 240GB, which I bought recently and running on the Asus Rampage Extreme lll. the problem is that I can not install Windows 7, when i hit the power button the system shows that there is a Revodrive3 x2 Installed as your video shows 8:30 5.0 Gbps but, can not find it on the bios anywher, how to find it? and what am I doing wrong.

And you mentioned something about the mechanical slots, what is it?

Need all the help that I can get.

[eatmycheesefag]

1 Gb/s read/write. Holy. Fuck.

[TheWc3dmx]

wile fast boot is nice however, its all about application loading, copying and writing

[KB9NHA]

No offense my TheWc3dmx but based on what your CrystalDiskMark result that you posted, your Revo looks like there's something wrong with it. A sequential read of 500 mb/s. It's just slow. I got a squential read of 483 mb/s using a Crucial M4 128 Gb SSD. Some posted 500 to 520 mb/s using the same SSD. The speed is doubled with same SSD when run (2) on RAID 0. Check the result posted in the SSD forum section of overclockdotnet. TRIM is not a problem with SSDs hence new SSDs have GC feature.

[TheWc3dmx]

Really people who cares about boot times much? will 3 seconds slower boots make up for 3-4x faster speed in windows? absolutly

[KB9NHA]

I got the same ASRock Fatal1ty Z68 Pro Gen3 mo as yours. I put a much cheaper Crucial M4 128 Gb SSD in it. As far as boot time, it's a lot faster than what I see in your video.

[TVEReview]

How big is that SLI Connector for those GTX590's?

[TVEReview]

How big is that SLI Connector for those GTX590's?

[CpemPekopc]

you have money for OCZ Revo and 2 gtx 590,but still you have ASSux MB????????? i think u r crzy!!!! for real

P.S. ASUS

PS.2 GIGABYTE

[flurry]

Fast what?!?

It took nearly the same time as a conventional mechanical hard drive!

[DOMIDOOM]

This guy seams knowledgeable...too bad his accent negates this effect.

[aptsys]

1500MB/s is not equal to 1.5GB/s. 

[drumsrule786]

@aptsys yes it is. I think what you mean is that it isn't equal to 1.5Gb/s.

[aptsys]

@drumsrule786 No there's 1024MB in 1GB

[drumsrule786]

@aptsys Well yes it's not 100% accurate but its still very close to the same thing

[1wcastro]

Under the heat sink is a LSI chip.

[SuperMaexle123]

Dude you must be definetly doing something wrong. I get these boot speeds with my old 7200rpm drive. Also the RevoDrive isn't meant to be a consumer market product, it's thought to be a business product. That's why it's not dedicated to run fast on windows 7. if you invest so much money in a drive, I'd have rather gone with a 2xSATA3 RAID0.

[borkmister]

The reason it boots slowly (or so I've heard), is that the drive has to initialize, go through posting, then load a large driver.

[nopkiller]

do a video of your new setup/setups's(?)

[Kyodaikuma]

Are writing and reading speeds faster if you have more storage capacity? I've heard you can go up to 2gb per revo drive. Does any one know about this?

[ktayor1]

Im not very computer literate at all, but is this like the next generation of storage????

[Masychefx2]

amazing that ssd is progressing very quickly

soon spin hardrives will be deadweight

[GAMINGHARDWARE1]

hi man nice review but i hope you know there is another it's the OCZ Z-DRIVE R4 R Series or the C Series Read: Up to 2000MB/s

Write: Up to 2000MB/s

Random 8k Write: 160,000 IOPS

Random 4k Write: 250,000 IOPS

Max IOPS: 260,000

holy crab this one is really amazes me!!!

[First2ner]

is this in raid or ide(ahci) mode?

[camicus82]

You had a lot of problems trying to get the OCZ RevoDrive X2 960GB to work on the Client Build 3, have you tried this model on a SR-2? I am wondering if the problem is with the 960GB drive or just the RevoDrive's compatibility with the SR-2. I'm really interested in this drive for my SR-2. Thanks

[driverwilliams]

Why didnt you go for 2xVertex 240GB RAID instead ?

[muffemod]

@driverwilliams LOL

[ThePCgamer1989]

@driverwilliams if im correct, maybe corrected if im not, but i dont think a firmware update has been released yet to support TRIM in RAID arrays..

[scarface4never]

@driverwilliams cause he said he needed TRIM which is lost when in raid array

[mrcryptz]

The trim support on this is sketchy. If you read the reviews OCZ states that it supports trim. But since this device is seen in windows as a SCSI device trim is not supported by the OS. Trim is a function of SATA. OCZ's stance is that the device supports trim but currently windows doesnt. The device may do trim some day if microsoft changes their storage drivers, but at the moment if you think you have trim in windows you do not...

[jdookie2908]

@mrcryptz You are exactly correct. This drive supports Trim, but Windows does not. I hope Trubyd knows this.

[borkmister]

@jdookie2908 Windows 7 actually does support TRIM.

[jdookie2908]

@borkmister You misunderstood me. The OCZ Revo 3 x2 supports Trim, and WIndows 7 supports Trim both separately, but Windows 7 does not support Trim for the Revo 3 x2 specifically. OCZ is supposedly pushing for Windows 7 to support the Revo drive, but at this time it does not.

[LaffenFXP]

@borkmister yes but not if your running raid.. win7 only supports TRIM on a singel drive

[ehhhhhhhhhh]

Holy shit that's fast.

Now put a bunch of them in Raid0.

[killerazteca]

Damn hundreds of dollars on this device and OCZ couldn't put the sticker on the back in the right direction. That's just lame!!!

[Yytinen]

I currently have a vertex 3. Only problem is that my mobo (gigabyte-ex58 extreme) doesn't support sata 6gb/s. Would it be worth it to buy this drive and keep it for a while?

[darodaredevil]

When we will see full showcase of your new gaming PC?

and this ssd appears to be really awesome, so shame that also very expensive

[amdebk4ever]

trubyd did you got rid of your old rig?

evga sr2 2x xeons 4way sli gtx 480 etc..

[darodaredevil]

@amdebk4ever he bought Nissan GT-R 2009 after selling old PC ;p

[amdebk4ever]

@darodaredevil ahaha xD probably the pc was amazing but i like more of mine :D

[dmn1n]

what file system did you use for the SSD?



[brandonsexywhitaker]

Nice test bench Truby. Good vid too!

[TheKaymor]

is it linux or mac compadable?

[gumberly]

@TheKaymor i HIGHLY doubt that would work in a mac pro. it might work in a mackintosh build. as for linux, it could prob work. but I'm sure it wouldn't run as fast. however these are my thoughts. i would try google

[Snake1979xfire]

Hmm that boot time wasn't that fast. the windows logo did stay long there.

If i boot with a Vertex 2, and when it finish that logo thing then it directly go to desktop.

[Trubyd44]

@Snake1979xfire Yeah, boot time wasn't amazing...must be the drivers or something. :( It is definitely fast once you get into windows though.

[1981z28camaro]

@Trubyd44 Run>Msconfig>Boot>No GUI Boot :-)

[1981z28camaro]

How bout a video of you loading 50 programs at once :-)

[KB9NHA]

I got the same ASRock Fatal1ty Z68 Pro Gen3 mo as yours. I put a much cheaper Crucial M4 128 Gb SSD in it. As far as boot time, it's a lot faster than what I see in your video.

Your CrystalDiskMark result is really slow. There's bunch of CrystalDiskMark result at overclock(dot)net using SSDs on RAID 0 & it doubled your score.

[Sanosukeafo]

@Trubyd44 Because of how the PCIe SSD's work, they take longer to start up then SATA drivers. Revo drives shine once you're at the desk top (You know, the important stuff).

Personally, I don't see why people care about shaving a few seconds off their boot time lol.

[KB9NHA]

@Sanosukeafo It's not few seconds, it's about 30 seconds. That's very long for boot time. The CrystalDiskMark result too worries me. It's just too slow for the specs of the Revo Truby was talking about. I think there's something wrong with his PCIe drive.

[Sanosukeafo]

@KB9NHA Ya it seemed a little off. Revo drives never boot fast though, but they outperform SATA III ssd's by a decent amount in load times once you're at the desktop. Considering that they're nearly the same price as SATA III drives, it's the better buy.

Personally I just use a standard 7200 RPM 1TB hdd for boot/OS/music/movie storage, and use the revo drive for gaming.

[scarface4never]

@Trubyd44 revodrives do take longer to boot cause they first enable their raid controller in order to access data and then they start booting the system

[blockhead16]

Yooo Trubs what in the hell is up with the super build it's been like 7 months, everyone wants to see videos on that not this even though the revo drive is pretty cool but seriously man what is going on something had to happen or went wrong you could have built a super server that fills three rooms in that time, come on keep us updated give us something

[stewgames]

The Test Benche is a Tecnofront Raven Test Benche you can buy it from Performancepcs com

[stewgames]

trubyd44 will you make a video of ur  test bench please

[63Jax]

don't you have the dual Xeon anymore? is this your main rig now?

[Tim456a]

UUUGGGGGG, Why do people keep using Crystal Disk with SandForce drives????? Crystal Disk uses un-compressible data, you will never ever get real scores with it and a SandaForce drive..... Crystal Disk is a very good way to fuck up your SandForce drive fast!

[Trubyd44]

@Tim456a Sorry, didn't know Crystal Disk didn't like Sandforce controllers...and didn't have any clue that it can actually do damage??? Can you send a link to the info please instead of yelling? Hmm, hmm...

[Tim456a]

@Trubyd44 I appologize if you think im yelling. But I would suggest looking through the OCZ forums or email their tech support. There are general rules of thumb with SandForce based drives that half to be done to keep the drives healthy (ie every 3 months using HDD Erase to reset the drives, disabling defrag, superfetch and Indexing, setting the page file to a different drive and logging off every now and then to allow the Garbage Collection function to do its job)

[adamjamesroe]

@Trubyd44 What test bench is that you got there? its very nice. :D

[Trubyd44]

@adamjamesroe Technofront Raven...it is nice, I love the slant on the motherboard tray.

[sonic003573]

run crystal disk in 100MB size not 1000MB

[TheDDshowLive]

Client Build 5 any updates....

[Richi407]

What is your Job ???

[shredder767]

I get the same boot times on my hdd, this is a waste of money; the programs did load faster on the ssd though.

[garryw1974]

tweaktown>

The problem is you're not going to see that level of performance in the real world until Microsoft delivers TRIM commands that can pass through RAID controllers or OCZ's new VCA 2.0

The final issue is of course with TRIM. Even with async flash the RevoDrive 3 X2 480GB that we tested today is damn fast. You are going to need TRIM to keep it that way or you'll be running OCZ Tool to keep the drive running well. Microsoft, please make it happen and make it happen before Windows 8.

[acer0169]

Crazy slow bios :O

[garryw1974]

Even though this ssd drive has the TRIM feature did you know that the trim on this drive doesn't work until Microsoft release the driver to make it work,you can read about it in the tweaktown review

[Simpsa69]

ATTO is still the best benchmark tool for HDD/SDD in my opinion

[BillieJean900]

can i install it on the x16 slot?

[othman626]

@BillieJean900 Yes you can, but you'll only receive the x4 bandwidth out of the x16 slot..

[BillieJean900]

@othman626 thnx

[Trubyd44]

@BillieJean900 The Revodrive 3 X2 in a x16 mechanical slot, please look at the video...it just a x4 electrical.

[BillieJean900]

@Trubyd44 thnx , i have a asus p7p55d evo and i have an ibis and it worked fine and now i dont now if the revo 3 x2 will work as well ? do u think it should work because the ibis worked?

[killomaster]

@BillieJean900 Yes you can, a 4X, 1X and 8X all fit in a 16X slot and work. Lower number always work in ha higher number slot.

[BillieJean900]

@killomaster in which slot it works faster

[killomaster]

@killomaster Doens't matter, it only will work on 4X speed. So in all off them where it will fit in. I Would say just place it in the 4x, so you can still use your 8x or 16x for cards that need those speed, like graphics cards.

[dumy252008]

what about that super PC with the 10 intel ssd s? what happened to it?

[SapphireHD5850Xtreme]

My HDD boots Windows faster xD

[CmptrPrgmr]

Was the a smoke alarm in the background going off to let you know the battery is almost dead?

[Trubyd44]

@CmptrPrgmr Probably...it keeps beeping and beeping. Thx!

[kuhrd]

I personally don't use ATTO as a good measure of speed for ssd's since it uses compressible data. Many current generation games have a large amount of uncompressable data mainly from textures and video. So if gaming is what your planning on doing with your ssd's you will probably want to look more at the results of crystal disk mark as it uses uncompressible data. The real world performance will probably be somewhere in the middle between the two results when used for gaming and OS.

[ultrameka]

naaa i don t think its worth the money yet...i got a Kingston sata 2 ssd(optimized) and i think my pc boots faster than this....there is the raid 0 option witch with 2 sata 3 drivers lets say the new mushkin series with 90.000 iops!!! i think you can outperform this think in half price...

[ultrameka]

naaa i don t think its worth the money yet...i got a Kingston sata 2 ssd(optimized) and i think my pc boots faster than this....there is the raid 0 option witch with 2 sata 3 drivers lets say the new mushkin series with 90.000 iops!!! i think you can outperform this think in half price...

[26psyside]

Nope, its not Crystaldiskmark issue, is Sandforce controller issue which dosent play nice with uncompressable data which Crystaldisk mark use as default same as AS-SSD behcnmark, the speed you get from ATTO are not realistic performance figures, they are the best possible scenario which happen very rare in real life usage, false advertising my friend.

Thats why Crucial SSD's still > everything, they dont need compressable data (ATTO) in order to work as advertised like Sandforce based SSD's

[Dmhlcmb]

What's up with client build 5? Still excited to see more on that.

[puafia]

Three regular SSD's in raid 0, off the mobo, no raid card, is just as fast and a lot cheaper.

The reason for the slow boot is poor 4k read speed. OCZ need to work on that.

[TechhMann]

theres no top to that case?

[Eddiefry]

I love my SSD but man, one of those would be fantastic.

[DrMasonStorm]

Thanks for another good vid Truby. I have the 240GB version of this OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2. It's very important to choose the right motherboard. I'm currently using the Asus Maximus IV Extreme-Z, which has a number of issues with this card, and my quad-SLI won't work properly unless I remove the Revo. (Asus don't claim quad-SLI support.) But if I move an Asus switch to deactivate 1 of the GTX 590s, the Revo works fine. You're in better shape with such a similar setup on your ASRock Gen3 board!

[CJ2GAME]

6 months to build one PC is unacceptable for me.. Your client is very patient man.

[krauser979]

@CJ2GAME dude im waiting a year for keplar and ivy bridge to come out =p

[CJ2GAME]

@krauser979 yea but u are not building pc right.

[MuayThaiBora]

Hey truby nice rig, what psu are you using to power that beast

[dzman1024]

i had and i mean had one of these drives, the OCZ RevoDrive 3 240gb. i tried all i could to see the performance from it, got at most 400mb/s read and 250mb/s write. i am in the process of returning it for a credit and getting a OCZ 240gb Max Iops. at least then if i get 36 second boot, not from bios but from windows first starting to load i wont be so disappointed. this drive booted windows in 34 secs, 8:33 - 9:07, i have a $100 60gb that boots windows in 10 seconds

[psychoclown420]

hey brotato! when are you going to update us on a personal build?

you are probably the most awesome pc builder i know of

[VampireGracie]

whats going on with Client Build 5?