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The word of the day has got to be ‘proprietary’ because OCZ has created an amazing storage medium in the RevoDrive 3×2 and the design is completely theirs.  Because it is propietary VCA 2.0 and contains OCZ’ patented Superscale Storage Accelerator, their choice of the new SandForce SF-2281 processors is simply genius.  In doing so, they seem to have taken …

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS The Revo 3 x2 consists of two printed circuit boards, known as the mother and daughter board, each containing two SF-2281 processors and 16 modules of Micron 25nm 29F64G08CBAAA asynchronous NAND on each side of both boards for a total of 64 NAND pieces. Each module is 8GB storage for a grand total of 512GB RAW capacity to …

The SSD Review uses benchmark software called PCMark Vantage x64 HDD Suite to create testing scenarios that might be used in the typical user experience. There are eight tests in all and the tests performed record the speed of data movement in MB/s to which they are then given a numerical score after all of the tests are complete. The …

HDTUNE PRO VER. 4.60 BENCHMARK HDTune is a great software program which covers all areas of our testing and does a great job of showing how capable this drive truly is. HDTUNE PRO VER. 4.60 FILE BENCHMARK HDTUNE PRO VER. 4.60 RANDOM BENCHMARK HDTUNE PRO VER. 4.60 EXTRAS HDTune Pro seems to bring out the best in the OCZ RevoDrive …

ATTO DISK BENCHMARK VER. 2.46 ATTO Disk Benchmark is perhaps one of the oldest benchmarks going and is definitely the main staple for manufacturer performance specifications.  For our testing, we use a set length of 256mb and test both the read and write performance of various transfer sizes ranging from 0.5 to 8192kb.  Manufacturers prefer this method of testing as …

SSD COMPRESSION AND TESTING FLUCTUATIONS All SSDs are not created equal and many new SSD enthusiasts realize that when they test their new drive to confirm specifications and ensure all is in order. SandForce controlled SSDs, as in the RevoDrive 3 x2 480GB PCIe SSD we are testing today, use compression techniques in storage whereas many others do not. This …

Todays complete review of the OCZ RevoDrive 3 x2 PCIe SSD is published on the heels of our Quick Look of the Revo 3 a few weeks back which resulted in a flurry of attention by PC enthusiasts worldwide. As many e-mails that were received in result, they never compared to the backlinks returned from dozens of forums with members …

In anticipation of the release of several new SSDs in the near future, The SSD Review has a bit of a treat for you that comes in the form of an exclusive with respect to OCZ Revo 3 x2 PCIe SSD benchmarks. Its not an exclusive in such that that other reviewers couldnt have conducted the same testing while at …

A few weeks back Kingston sent over one of their 32GB DataTravelers for a bit of an evaluation and, with the hustle and bustle of Computex, we have to concede that it never really got a fair shake. Sitting here for a few minutes break in between SSD reviews, I just happened to pick it up and noticed for the …

It was just about a month ago that AData announced their upcoming release of a new 6Gbps SSD which would join the masses of ‘SandForce Driven’ SSDs and, not surprisingly, a sample was in the mail on our return from Computex. Today we will be ripping apart an AData S511 120GB solid state drive and its only proper to welcome …