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Any experience with these? The only one with a reasonable price at newegg is the revo drive 3 series, but they have some pretty mixed reviews. I know not to take those reviews seriously, but they do point out that although the hardware supports trim, the current implementation in windows does not. (It shows up as SAS instead of AHCI). Lot of reviews that indicate bad reliability but thats not too surprising as you always get more bad review than good.

Any experience with the RevoDrive 3? Specifically the RevoDrive 3 X2 240GB in normal and max iops versions?

Or other comparable products?
 
I don't own one of these, but I've been thinking of buying one for a while. For me, it's not really necessary, and I don't know that I'd have a good use for one. But I wonder if you wouldn't be better served with, say, two MaxIOPS instead. You'd get better performance and maintenance would be less bothersome. The 3x2 uses asynchronous IMFT, the MaxIOPS uses Toggle NAND, and there is no version using ONFI synchronous.

Of course, after saying all that, I really want one. They're just cool gear to have. The MaxIOPS version would be the one to get though, depending on your workload.

I think it's awesome that they even make these TBH. They do suffer from the lack of TRIM, and naturally the asynchronous NAND model is going to be less capable than the MaxIOPS with incompressible data, but it's just cooler than hanging two SSDs off of your motherboard's SATA ports.

You've probably seen TechReport's review of the RevoDrive last week, but I suggest you read it first in case you've not.

http://techreport.com/articles.x/22663/2
 
Have not seen that review. Good info on the NAND types as I was not aware of the specifics. 240GB R3x2 MaxIOPS is $829 and out of stock at newegg, while the regular R3x2 is only $650. Seems like at those prices the $650 one is the best deal.
 
You should definitely look that review over thoroughly before deciding which one to get. Two SF2281s with Toggle NAND in RAID 0 are a force to be reckoned with and going that route would give better performance and lower cost... but it's not as interesting as a PCIe SSD. I've seen the original RevoDrive on sale at NCIX frequently in the past, and I wish I had picked one up just to play with.

Hell, for $650 you can get 2x256GB drives with money left over and twice the capacity. Neither solution would have TRIM, though eventually Intel will get RST11.5 out for TRIM in RAID... but I wouldn't count on it being soon.
 
If the revodrive has any similarities to the rest of ocz's ssd line, I wouldn't be jumping to get in on it isn't bc of their spotty reliability record.
 
Wow, that review is an eye-opener. Yeah, I definitely wont be getting one of these. Kind of a shame honestly.
 
If your going to use it as a boot drive, make sure your motherboard supports pci ssd booting. email your motherboard manufacturer or the ssd company, or google it etc. If you do buy one purchase an extended warranty for piece of mind. Most can usually agree sandforce controllers are the most stable
 
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