OCZ RevoDrive 3 x2 PCIe SSD Review - 1.5GB Read/1.25GB Write/200,000 IOPS

[EnHoE007]

Hi guys

How it looks like, does this SSD (at PCI-E) boots faster than lets say 4x Vertex 3 @ Raid Controller?

THX

[The SSD Guy]

I personally cannot answer that. This SSD does, however, have a slight delay at post time of a few seconds for recognition of the drive itself.

[EnHoE007]

Im asking because a single ssd boots fasther than 4 in raid. And i thought its the same (raid and pcie). If a pcie boots faster i prefer to buy one. But i dont know..

[The SSD Guy]

It all comes down to the RAID arrays recognition at post which is the same for a RAID x 4 or the Revo 3x2 even though it is a SCSI. If you are looking for the absolute fastest boot, a single SSD cannot be beat.

[EnHoE007]

OK, thanks a lot. I will wait until Sandy-E comes out. Then I will check out what to do... Regards

[ssdbob]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227744

OR

I've got mine on order at Amazon for $690(price higher now):
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00..._ya_os_product

but expect to wait another ~2 weeks at that price.

[The SSD Guy]

Bit of an update on this drive and the Revo 3 with respect to Gigabyte motherboards. I was testing a few days back and learned that this drive wouldnt install in AHCI mode on the Giga UD7. I also subsequently read at least 2 other instances where the card would work fine in IDE mode but hung up in the Revo BIOS on boot in SATA mode.

Two days ago I contacted Giga and explained the problem to which they sent me a new firmware to try out today, numbered F9b. Turns out it works like a charm! Giga and 3x2 work fine in AHCI mode now as I am sure with any other similar motherboard issues of the same nature.

Good work Giga!

[Computurd]

wow that was a fast turnaround! awesome work from gigabyte
les you can pull strings man

[FiftyOne]

was that a new bios update or a new revo firmware?

[The SSD Guy]

New Giga BIOS F9b