OCZ RevoDrive PCI-Express SSD

[keithallenlaw]

My current build is about 5 years old now and at the time it was the best
of the best, and now I'm ready to build again. I've been tossing around the
idea of building again with the focus on a OCZ RevoDrive PCI-Express SSD.
I want to boot from it and run my OS. I game a little, run Photoshop, and edit
movies once in a while. I transfer data a lot too. Anyone have any ideas for a
motherboard choice and other hardware? Some good links? Would love to hear
from people who have this set up. Thanks for any ideas.

 

[blackmaster]

I have:

-Asus Rampage IV Extreme (& 3930k @4G7), is a worst mobo I have ever. Worts in all system performance , ->(RAM Bandwith, and HD SSD Bandwith , and Boot ,and smedia Sata III ports , and day use)<- Im not gamer
my other Asrock Fatal1ty z68 Pro Gen3 (2700k @4G4) destroy them. RIVE is pure marketing and for OC Fanboy, not for "system" performance.

I wait for user 'vega' his review on Asrock Exteme11 onboard Raid0 and system performance for buy this mother.


- OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 series RVD3X2-FHPX4-240G . Unbelievable, Fast , Fast Fast ..... I say Fast?
Now I have one . But I had tree of these. A week ago, I bought two, in a promotion of the egg, a 15% discount. u$d357 each
Now is flying to my house.
To me , is spectacular SSD disc

 

[westrock2000]

For editing video I would stick to standard platters, particularly in a RAID0. Use that as a seperate drive, as it looks like you are currently. Video doesn't use all that much bandwidth, just alot of capacity.

The access times of your Raptors might be good for skipping around in a video file, but you might find that 2x regular 7200RPM 1TB drives would actually perform better just due to the density of modern drives.

I think at this point SSD's have begun to hit a practicality wall. I'm not sure how much of a difference 800MB/s is noticed over 300MB/s.

 

[extide]

Check for reviews on those Revo Drives, I was all set to buy one until I say some actual graphs of it's real-world performance...