OCZ Revodrive 2 any good with my system

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Have the opportunity to pick up one of these - 100gb - for a reasonable price. It should - according to Google - work with my MB. I am thinking this would speed up my system without me needing to upgrade the whole thing. Obviously a normal SSD would be limited by SATA ii.

I have no experience with this type of drive so thought I'd see what you folks think.
 
May I ask how much you would be able to get the revodrove for?

The issue with these drives is that they use an onboard RAID array to achieve the excellent performance - so the TRIM command (which helps maintain the performance of SSDs) doesn't work with these drives, so their performance tends to degrade over time.

Instead, I would just go with a nice quality SATA SSD (like the Crucial M4). It won't provide you with all the performance you would get if you had SATA3 ports - but in reality the tasks which make SSDs so great (small reads and writes) are not limited by a SATA2 connection - so the SATA2 bottleneck will only really come into play when transferring large files. Plus, you get the benefit of the TRIM command to maintain the speed of the drive.
 
raid/trim supporting intel rst drivers are just around the corner,pluss you should have garbage collection which will help abit
 
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Yea, but will a card that doesn't connect to the Intel southbridge and uses an onboard RAID controller (a Silicon Image SiI3124) work with those new TRIM enabling drivers ?
 
have no idea on that,but another possibility is buy two cheaper sata2 ssd's and raid 0 them,then when/if trim support comes out for raid you will be covered plus youll have raid speed
 
Aye, it's a fair option (especially considering he is using a board with only SATA2 ports - so a RAID array is the only way to achieve faster than ~285MB/s transfers, other than a PCIE card), however he should also bear in mind that a the smaller drives tend to be more expensive per GB and slower than the larger capaity drives, also RAID 0 has the problem where if one drive dies then you loose all the data - plus at the moment there still isn't any TRIM compatibility for RAID drives.

Therefore, I would still recommend getting a singe drive connected to the SATA - as it is less hassle, better value, more reliable and should be fast enough.
 
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I could get the drive for £170 delivered. I am still thinking of upgrading my whole system at some point - this was perhaps going to be to get some more life out of my current system. I seem to be gaming a bit less at the moment so my Q6600 - although it does bottleneck my crossfire setup - is still more than enough for what I generally do (publish websites, write, browse) and the games I play tend to be slightly older (still playing Fallout New Vegas et al).

I have seen Agility 3 120gb drives for just over £100 - and the Vertex 3 for £129 which might be easier. However, I was holding off buying one because reinstalling upgrade version of windows would mean I would have to put Vista back on, upgrade it again and then I might have issues with Microsoft thinking it was dodgy.

Is there an easy way of copying my current boot drive and moving it onto an SSD saving me the hassle of a clean install?
 
your better off buying a 120gb sata3 ssd,dont go for agility it uses poorer nand memory,vertex 3 crucial m4 corsair gt series all use better synchronous nand

and use paragon migrate to copy over os,it lets you choose which files to copy over as your hdd will be larger than your ssd,it will do a complete clone so it will boot up ect without issue

then google enabling ahci win7 and do a simple reg tweak so that it runs in ahci mode,if you dont it will just blue screen if you set to ahci after os install
 
My biggest concern would be the CPU utilisation, which is meant to be pretty high. That could potentially offset any performance gain offered from throughput. Does anybody have any first-hand experience with one?
 
Yes, the Corsair Performance Pro is a good SSD, but bear in mind it is pretty much a Crucial M4 in different clothes (it uses the same controller) - so don't pay too much more for it than what you can get a Crucial M4 256GB for (£280 on OCUK).
 
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Yes, the Corsair Performance Pro is a good SSD, but bear in mind it is pretty much a Crucial M4 in different clothes (it uses the same controller) - so don't pay too much more for it than what you can get a Crucial M4 256GB for (£280 on OCUK).
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Cheers. I think a 120GB just wouldn't be enough as I have nearly filled my main 150gb raptor drive with a few games etc.

The Corsair Force 3 is very cheap for 120GB if I wanted to buy two - one for OS and office software, another purely for game installs.
 
Does anyone here that is posting actually own a Revodrive?

Here we go again.. I bought my original Revodrive when they first came out. It had the green dot so was ok, just after the firmware issues which tarnished their name. A lot of people on here don't like them because they didn't sell well after initial batches had this firmware problem and this is how they got their reputation. However, there are many sheep in this field and only one or two shepherds that can speak from experience ;) You need to leave about 8GB asside unallocated so that the system can use this to regen the other blocks.

TRIM is NOT an issue - my original Revodrive is 3 years old and still benches at exactly the same speed.

As usual on here, it is people's opinion that do not or never have actually owned this product. I am on my second Revodrive2 now and have had no problems whatsoever, only upgrading to a faster one. Quite simply this is the most amazing drive I have ever owned and I have been building high-end PC's since they began with component selectable 486's. It doesn't use SATA connections, it doesn't require any high-end RAID controller, you plug it in and it works. The higher end Revo's read at 1.5GB/sec and write at 1.25GB/sec. Yes they are a bit special and yes they get mixed reactions, but it gets my goat up when the place is full of so-called experts that don't or have never owned one.

Just my 2p

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I'd love one of those "OCZ RevoDrive3 X2 MAX IOPS 240GB" though @ £660.... :(

Also could be a slight issue with my crossfire setup. What an amazing spec drive though!
 
Havent made a jump to ssd yet, used to run scsi, then sas - gets a bit costly but nowhere near as expensive as this. I think a revo 3 will be on the cards for me next !
 
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Does anyone here that is posting actually own a Revodrive?

Here we go again.. I bought my original Revodrive when they first came out. It had the green dot so was ok, just after the firmware issues which tarnished their name. A lot of people on here don't like them because they didn't sell well after initial batches had this firmware problem and this is how they got their reputation. However, there are many sheep in this field and only one or two shepherds that can speak from experience ;) You need to leave about 8GB asside unallocated so that the system can use this to regen the other blocks.

TRIM is NOT an issue - my original Revodrive is 3 years old and still benches at exactly the same speed.

As usual on here, it is people's opinion that do not or never have actually owned this product. I am on my second Revodrive2 now and have had no problems whatsoever, only upgrading to a faster one. Quite simply this is the most amazing drive I have ever owned and I have been building high-end PC's since they began with component selectable 486's. It doesn't use SATA connections, it doesn't require any high-end RAID controller, you plug it in and it works. The higher end Revo's read at 1.5GB/sec and write at 1.25GB/sec. Yes they are a bit special and yes they get mixed reactions, but it gets my goat up when the place is full of so-called experts that don't or have never owned one.

Just my 2p

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thanks for some real life experience/input to a thread for a change ;)
 
SB420 said:
I'd love one of those "OCZ RevoDrive3 X2 MAX IOPS 240GB" though @ £660.... :(

Also could be a slight issue with my crossfire setup. What an amazing spec drive though!
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sell one of those 79's then..... it's probably wasted in that setup unless your running a massive eyefinity set up or a couple of 30" screens anyway :)
 
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