The OCZ RevoDrive makes fast, faster with an innovative performance design that pushes the envelope in solid state technology and leaves hard drives in the dust. Moving beyond the bottleneck of the SATA interface, the RevoDrive features a PCIe interface to deliver superior performance. Designed for high-performance gaming PCs and workstations, the RevoDrive dominates thanks to the unique capability to run both Windows and your essential applications and games. With speeds up to 540MBps and 75,000 IOPS, this bootable PCI-Express SSD not only provides a more responsive PC experience, but promotes cooler, quieter, and more energy efficient conditions compared to traditional mechanical hard drives. The RevoDrive can accommodate a wide range of computing environments such as video-editing and other multi-media creation and management, all while providing the superior durability and reliability of SSDs.
SSD Storage TechnologyUnlike traditional hard disk drives, SSDs have no moving parts, resulting in a quiet, cool, highly reliable storage solution that also offers faster application loading and system responsiveness. And for laptops and netbooks, the lower power needs of SSDs translate to extended battery life. Higher performance with more durability means you can be truly mobile with confidence.
Incredibly Fast PerformanceThe RevoDrive family gets its edge by employing a PCIe x4 interface (1GB/s bandwidth as opposed to 3Gb/s of SATA II) and two SandForce-1200 controllers in RAID 0 design to maximize data access and bandwidth. Therefore the RevoDrive SSDs (120GB-480GB) feature up to 540 MB/s read & 480 MB/s write speeds, up to 400 MB/s sustained write speed, and incredible random write up to 75,000 IOPS (4KB Aligned).
BootableThe OCZ RevoDrive is powered by the PCI-Express bus and OS bootable allowing for use as the primary boot drive and super-fast system startup. (Motherboard supporting boot over PCI-E is required.)
Pros: Installing this drive was a breeze. Like a few others I also had my worries about being able to use this as a boot drive but I had absolutely no problems with it. It has a 7.9 WEI score which boosts my overall score to 7.7 from a previous 5.8. There's a very noticeable improvement in almost everything from boot times to opening applications and loading detailed maps into CS5 to playing games like WoW (I don't even see the loading screen when hearthing to Dalaran :D). I feel like my PC is finally at balance with all its components and none are bottle-necking each other. If you have a high end system but are still using HDD's you will not regret this purchase.
Cons: Price, but that's to be expected with relatively new tech.
Overall Review: System Specs: i7 920 @4.2 12 GB Ram in Triple Channel HD 5870 x2 crossfire Asus P6T Revodrive now! Velociraptorsx2 in raid0 Corsair HX750W PSU How I installed: -Reset any OC's on video card and on CPU through BIOS -Downloaded revodrive drivers from their website and burned onto a cd -Shutdown PC and switched power off on PSU to cut power off completely -Installed revodrive in the PCIex4 slot -Switched on and started up PC and enter BIOS -In boot menu change hard disk priority to raid (revodrive) -in boot priority change boot order to cdrom-raid(revodrive)-floppy -Inserted W7 DVD -F10 save and quite BIOS -Reboot and start installation, do an "advanced install" and proceed until it asks what disk you want the install to (it won't initially see the revodrive as an option to install to), from there click on 'load driver' and insert the cd (or dvd or bootable usb drive) with revodrive drivers. -You'll see the revodrive and can use it as a boot device to install w7