OCZ RevoDrive X2: SandForce & PCIe x 4

Although it has taken a relatively long, OCZ has really done it this summer to bring the long-awaited RevoDrive on the market. This is a Solid State Drive, which, contrary to the habit not connected to a SATA connector, but instead put in a PCI Express slot is.

With a capacity of 50-480 gigabytes was reached on the PCIe x4 slot up to 540 MB / s read and 480 MB / s write what is already a significant improvement over the conventional SSDs. The 75,000 IOPS came about only because the 2 SandForce SF-1200 controller, an internal RAID 0 formed team.

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The new OCZ RevoDrive X2 is back on the sand force SF-1200 controller, this time one uses, however, equal to 4 controllers. The flash memory itself comes from chip giant Intel, but the most important thing should be the read / write rates, which this time will be repaid over the PCIe x4 slot.

Up to 740 MB / s read and 730MB / s will provide one letter, which was even increased to 120,000 IOPS. Generally looks like its predecessor, the new RevoDrive comes, but with a "daughter board", a quasi daughter board, with which it is connected and on which there are 2 extra controllers and a couple of NAND memory chips. Price and release date are unknown, the predecessor must be current of 200 - 1000 Euro lay on the table.