Funky Kit Review: OCZ RevoDrive 50Gb SSD PCI-Express Card

This is a pretty cool product, not sure I would want to afford one right away but given this or slow SSD's, sign me up.

In this review, we'll be taking a look at the OCZ RevoDrive 50Gb SSD PCI-Express Card. It's one of only a few solid state drives on the market that's in the form of a PCI-Express card, and is aimed at the higher-end and enthusiast market. The card features internal RAID 0 powered by Silicon Image Sil 3124 controller, and has a total capacity of 46Gb (usuable) driven by 2 SandForce controllers. It can be used as primary boot drive or for data storage. What makes this card extremely appealing is the internal RAID 0 feature. RAID 0 is also know as data "striping" and allows a massive boost in performance.

Keep in mind the Revo is 2x SSD drives on a single board piped directly into a PCI Express slot.  Its like a hardware RAID card, without the drives attached and doesn't support RAID 5.

Food for thought, 3 RevoDrives in the same system, you could then do software RAID 5 across the cards for a RAID 50 total.  

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