Introduced at Computex: OCZ’s speedy RevoDrive brings PCIe SSD to consumer-class PCs

PC add-on vendor OCZ plays in several high-performance PC component markets including DRAMs and SSDs. The company is at the Computex 2010 event in Taiwan this week and is reportedly introducing a high-performance SSD on a PCIe x4 plug-in card. Anandtech’s coverage of the introduction reports that the RevoDrive is based on a pair of Sandforce SF-1200 controller chips in a RAID configuration. (The photo on the Anandtech site shows a pair of SF-1222s.) TechPowerUp reports that OCZ’s RevoDrive employs MLC (multi-level cell) NAND Flash devices and that the drive will be offered with two capacities: 120 and 240 Gbytes. The high-resolution photo appearing in the Anandtech article also clearly shows an expansion connector for possible capacity expansion beyond the reported sizes. SlashGear says that the PCIe-based SSD delivers peak read and write speeds of 540 and 530 Mbytes/sec respectively and that OCZ has rated the drive’s performance at 75,000 IOPS. These are all wicked fast numbers for an SSD and clearly show the benefit of using the PCIe interface and dual NAND controllers. OCZ’s RevoDrive will tempt anyone looking to maximize storage performance in high-end PCs used in demanding applications such as video editing and multimedia content creation.