** 1TB of ultra fast storage at near 1GB/s speeds for less than £400?? Take a look inside! ;) **

[Andrew Moore]

Hello


Does 1TB of ultra fast storage approaching 1GB/s in transfer rates for less than £400 sound good to you? If so take a look at this beast!!


Looks to be arriving the first week of september too

OCZ RevoDrive HYBRID 1TB PCI-E SSD Hard Drive - (RVDHY-FH-1T) ** PRE-ORDER PRICE ONLY ** @ £389.99 inc VAT

Unique Hybrid Storage Solution for Performance and Value

OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid is the next step in the evolution of storage technology for power users, multimedia designers and game enthusiasts. The PCI-ebased RevoDrive Hybrid not only eliminates the SATA bottleneck to unleash groundbreaking bandwidth and landmark IOPS performance, but it also includes a high-capacity harddisk drive and intelligent software that integrates SSD and HDD into a single high-performance and high-capacity storage solution.

The OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid comes bundled with intelligent caching software that dynamically manages the use of the SSD with the 1TB HDD for superior overall storage performance. The most frequently/recentlyused “hot” data stays on the ultra-fast SSD while “cold” data remains on the slower but larger capacity disk. Advanced caching algorithms learn user behavior and adapt storage policies to ensure optimal performance for each individual user. Welcome to the next generation storage from OCZ Technology.

Highest Performing Hybrid Drive on the Market!
- Completecaching solution on a single card
- SSD performance withoutsacrificing a low cost per gigabyte
- Delivering an exceptional all-in-one solution for power users, multimedia designers, and computing enthusiasts

OCZ SuperScale Storage Accelerator
- Facilitates scalable performance for intensive workloads
- Unique complex command queuing structure (CCQS) with queue balancing algorithms (QBA)
- Higher performance and reduced burden on the host CPU

OCZ Virtualized Controller Architecture
- VCA 2.0 presents as a complete storage subsystem for superior data management
- Only virtualization layer in the industry with TRIM and SCSI unmapsupport
- Enables SMART monitoring for system administrators

Intelligent Caching Software
- Simultaneously manages HDD and SSD, learning individual user behavior to adapt storage policies
- “Hot” data managed on Synapse SSD for highest performance, access, and bandwidth
- “Cold” data routed to HDD for highest capacity usage


- Capacity: 1TB total storage with 2 x Sandforce 2281 based drives (100GB) acting as cache
- Nand: 25nm MLC
- Storage: 1TB 5400rpm HDD
- Weight: 289g
- Interface: PCI-Express Gen. 2 x4
- MAX Read: up to 910MB/s
- MAX Write: up to 810MB/s
- MAX 4KB Random Write: 120,000 IOPS (475MB/s)
- Sequential Read: up to 290MB/s
- Sequential Write: up to 130MB/s
- 4KB Random Write: 32,000 IOPS (120MB/s)
- Product: RevoDrive Hybrid


Was £419.99 Inc. VAT

Only £389.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW

 

[Duff-Man]

Looks like a great concept. I'll wait and see what reviews and other hands-on tests have to say about how well it really performs, but it certainly is tempting...

 

[Aurhinius]

Sounds good until you need to write a lot of data.

Write 100GB of data and you'll soon be writing direct too a 5400rpm drive slooooooow.

Would probably kick in sooner if you have cached data there or more dramatically clear your cache data! causing the cache to have to rebuild.

Great for an every day use drive with big storage but no good for large file moves/storage.

Also way more expensive than a seperate SSD + 1TB 7,200 rpm HDD on a Z series motherboard.

Not sure what their market is here to be honest.

Anyone looking in to enterprise storage will already have a cache capable HBA or raid controller so would be cheaper buying seperate disks

 

[Andrew Moore]

Sounds good until you need to write a lot of data.

Write 100GB of data and you'll soon be writing direct too a 5400rpm drive slooooooow.

Would probably kick in sooner if you have cached data there or more dramatically clear your cache data! causing the cache to have to rebuild.

Great for an every day use drive with big storage but no good for large file moves/storage.

Also way more expensive than a seperate SSD + 1TB 7,200 rpm HDD on a Z series motherboard.

Not sure what their market is here to be honest.

Anyone looking in to enterprise storage will already have a cache capable HBA or raid controller so would be cheaper buying seperate disks

Its essentially 2x Vertex 3 60GB SSDs in raid 0 with a hybrid raid to a TB 1.8" drive.

All in all this will be horrendously quick

 

[Sunbed]

Great concept! Might be good for people with lots of steam games but only play a select few at a time.

 

[233]

Silly question but can I use this as a boot drive in my old 775 rig?

 

[Andrew Moore]

Silly question but can I use this as a boot drive in my old 775 rig?

If you have a PCI-E 4x lane free it should be fine provided your board can provide the bandwidth required