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OCZ Couples SSD, Mechanical Storage On a PCIe Card

Posted by timothy on from the little-of-this-little-of-that dept.

J. Dzhugashvili writes "We've seen some solid-state drives on PCI Express cards before, but OCZ's RevoDrive Hybrid may very well be the first solution to combine solid-state storage and a mechanical hard drive on a single PCI Express x4 card. Using Dataplex caching software from Nvelo, the RevoDrive Hybrid uses its solid-state component (a RAID 0 array of SandForce-based SSDs) as a cache for an onboard mechanical hard drive. The caching scheme is reportedly so effective that "a 5,400-RPM drive can be used without sacrificing much performance," according to The Tech Report's coverage. OCZ hasn't hashed out all of the details yet, but it expects the RevoDrive Hybrid to start at $350 this July. The base configuration should couple 60GB of solid-state storage with a 500GB mechanical drive."

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  1. Seriously, The Real Question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think the REAL question is: What does Justin Bieber think? I know what you're thinking: Justin Bieber???

    But the thing that most people don't know is that The Biebs is a SERIOUS Linux hacker, having come back to the main stream after a flirtation with BSD.

    In fact The Biebs has told his studio crew to back away from ProTools because it's a Windoz and Mac only package, and The Biebs is well known to run Ubuntu on his lappy and Fedora Bleeding Edge on his PC...

    So, WHAT DOES THE BIEBS THINK ABOUT solid-state drives on PCI Express cards?

    That's what *I* want to know.

    Well, that and when is he going to announce his love and willingness to be a boy-toy for David Archuleta?