OCZ Announces RevoDrive Hybrid SSD+HDD PCIe Solution

[Rob Williams]

Three months ago, during Computex, OCZ showed off its latest RevoDrive PCIe SSD, dubbed 'Hybrid'. As the name no doubt gives away, the product sees a hard drive paired with an SSD, in order to have them act together and give users the best of both worlds - speed and storage. This is an idea that has been tried a countless number of times before, but to this day no solution has truly seemed to take off.

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[Doomsday]

Seagates's Momentus XT Hybrid thingy wasn't that great, lets see how this does! OCZ is very good with SSDs though so, these might be good!

 

[Kougar]

It is interesting to see, that is for sure. Out of all the SSD+HDD hybrid technologies I've seen to date, this one may be the most promising for the single fact that 100GB is a huge amount of SSD to serve as cache. The single-most problem with hybrid technology is that if the right data isn't cached, then the user gets normal HDD performance.

The downside is that, at $500 what is the point of someone buying this when they can buy the individual 120GB SSD, and a larger, faster 3TB drive for less? Maybe I'm a bit harsh on new tech, but honestly I don't see how the ease of convenience justifies this one. But for the sake of technology, it's nice to see new products being devised.

 

[Doomsday]

It is interesting to see, that is for sure. Out of all the SSD+HDD hybrid technologies I've seen to date, this one may be the most promising for the single fact that 100GB is a huge amount of SSD to serve as cache. The single-most problem with hybrid technology is that if the right data isn't cached, then the user gets normal HDD performance.

The downside is that, at $500 what is the point of someone buying this when they can buy the individual 120GB SSD, and a larger, faster 3TB drive for less? Maybe I'm a bit harsh on new tech, but honestly I don't see how the ease of convenience justifies this one. But for the sake of technology, it's nice to see new products being devised.

Now THAT, is the smarter choice!!

 

[Optix]

So this is pretty much moving Intel's Smart Response Technology to a PCIe drive instead of on the motherboard. I can certainly vouch for Kougar's statement that the right data needs to be cached for any real performance increase to be felt.