Anyone own a Revodrive X2?

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Just looking for feedback from owners of a Revodrive X2. Any pro's/con's to the Revodrive? I'm looking to purchase the 240GB version and use that as a boot/steam game drive, and use my RAID 0 Velociraptors on the SATA6 controller as storage.
 
Don't. Get a LSI SAS2008 based card and buy 4x 60GB Sandforce SSDs (or other SSDs as you want)... unless you cannot fit the SSDs in your enclosure for some reason and need them on the PCIe card. The Revodrive X2 uses cheap silicon image PCI-X controllers and therefore is limited by the PCI-X interface and the PCI-X to PCIe bridge. The LSI SAS2008 based cards are faster, and are PCIe 2.0 x8 cards. Eight 60GB drives can give you over 2GB/s on one of those which is more than twice as fast as four drives on the Revodrive X2.

Oh and the LSI SAS2008 card plus four 60GB drives is also cheaper than the Revodrive X2 by about $100.
 
Wow! Thanks for the reply, I will look into that card and drives. From what I understood, the Revo X2 uses Sandforce controllers? Right? I was under the impression they were good quality, but your solution sounds much faster and more upgradable.
 
The cool thing is that Revodrive does support TRIM under Linux/BSD while RAIDed. Which would not be possible on SAS controller as it converts ATA to SCSI commands and thus ATA TRIM will not work.

The biggest disadvantage would be the lack of supercapacitor, so i wouldn't buy the Revodrive. The Z-drive with supercapacitor, LSI controller and Sandforce SF2000 NAND controllers would be a quite interesting product, though!
 
Yea but Sandforce has decent GC if you let the drive idle. A lot of people are fixated on TRIM when GC works really well in many applications. Most desktop users go to a lower activity state for portions of the day (evening for example) and even less than Indilinx aggressive type GC works well for them.
 
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