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OCZ RevoDrive 350 PCIe SSD Hits 1.8GB/sec With Standard Toshiba MLC NAND

Posted by timothy on from the and-this-time-next-year dept.

MojoKid (1002251) writes "OCZ was recently acquired by Toshiba and has been going through its product stack, revamping its SSD portfolio with fresh re-designs based on Toshiba NAND Flash memory for not only increased performance but better cost structure as well. OCZ has now replaced their RevoDrive family of PCIe SSD cards with an almost complete re-designed of the product. The RevoDrive 350 is based on the same OCZ VCA 2.0 (Virtualized Controller Architecture) technology as the previous generation but is now enabled with a PCI Express X8 card interface and up to 4 LSI SandForce SD-2282 SSD processors, along with 19nm Toshiba NAND Flash. The good news is, not only is the new RevoDrive 350 faster at 1.8GB/sec claimed bandwidth for sequential reads and 1.7GB/sec for sequential writes, but it's also significantly more affordable, at literally half the price of the previous gen RevoDrive 3 when it first launched. In the benchmarks, the new PCIe card excels at read throughput, regularly hitting its 1.8GB/sec claimed bandwidth, especially with sequential workloads. Write performance is solid as well and the drive competes with the likes of some higher-end and more expensive SLC NAND-based PCIe cards like LSI's WarpDrive and Intel's SSD 910."

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  1. No. Absolutely not. by stonecypher · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My RevoDrive failed in three weeks of light use, and they refused to honor the warranty.

    Toshiba also refuses to honor the warranty, despite that they admit that the purchase was real and that the existing warranty was not honored, and despite that I am a standing Toshiba customer.

    Therefore nothing has changed, and you do not want a RevoDrive.

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  2. What about reliability? by jandrese · · Score: 4, Interesting

    OCZ always struggles with reliability, and buying their Lambo performance hardware always seems like a recipe for lost data. The fact that they're pushing MLC flash chips to the limit is not reassuring.

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    1. Re:What about reliability? by AaronW · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Out of three OCZ drives I have had two failures within the first two weeks of use.

      Last Friday my 2-week old work machine with an "enterprise class" OCZ hard drive hooked up to a Dell server with an LSI raid controller suddenly started corrupting the EXT4 filesystem all to hell rendering the machine unbootable. I had days worth of work on that machine. Fortunately I was able to recover the data from lost+found after fsck.ext4 but the root directory was totally lost along with who knows what other data.

      At home I have two OCZ hard drives. One of them turned into a brick after two weeks of use. I got a replacement from OCZ and make sure I do an XFS dump every night onto my RAID drives.

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  3. Re:No. Absolutely not. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What was the basis of their refusal?

  4. Why does MojoKid only submit links to HotHardware? by Aryeh+Goretsky · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hello,

    Why does MojoKid only submit articles which link to HotHardware reviews? Is HotHardware a Dice.Com site? Is MojoKid a Dice.Com employee?

    A disclaimer would be nice about paid editorial content or when linking to sister sites in the Dice Holdings portfolio, etc.

    Regards,

    Aryeh Goretsky

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