June 7, 201016 yr I have my eyes set on a newly announced RevoDrive from Ocz. http://techreport.com/discussions.x/19015 PCIe SSD with over 500MB/sec read and write... sustained. Yes, that's 1GB in 2 seconds. 4.5GB DVD ISO file in 9 seconds. The price point for the RevoDrive has been floated at abut $450 for the 120GB version. Other entries in this area like Fusion are insanely expensive ($4K) and even the prior Ocz offerings were over $1K. When I originally went to an SSD for by desktop boot/OS drive, it was like night and day. Boot times cut from 1 minute to under 20 seconds. Context menus actually pop. Apps load incredibly fast. Putting the user profile and temp files on a nonvolitile RAMdisk (VSuite, over 3000MB/sec) also made a big improvement, even over the SSD. Since the RevoDrive is about 3 times the performance of my existing SSD, I'm hoping for another noticeable bump in performance. While it would be a bit wasteful to put this in an unRAID box, it does make benchmarking I/O to unRAID more accurate, as if you have this in your desktop, using it when benchmarking copies to/from unRAID will eliminate local latency that will impact throughput if you were using a local hard drive.
June 7, 201016 yr When I first saw this on TR I thought you too might be interested in it, seems I was right.
June 7, 201016 yr Sweet, would make a good drive for vmware. I moved my vmware partition from a pair of 10,000RPM SAS drives to a single OCZ 60GB Vertex Turbo and it helped a great deal. I was actually thinking of getting an ACARD Ramdisk, but now this makes me consider waiting.
June 7, 201016 yr Author ACARD is slow compared to SSD. The advantage of the ACARD is it won't wear out like an SSD will. That's why I put temp files, the user profile, and certain select application data like browser cache on a VSuite RAMdisk, with delivers over 3GB/sec. Problem is that VSuite is limited to 4GB under XP, and some of the stuff I have to regularly use won't fly under XP64. Now embed an ACARD, battery, with a RAID controller, all on a PCIe card, with auto backup to flash, then you'll have something!
June 7, 201016 yr How is the ACARD slower then SSD? They both use the SATA Interface? Slower then the OCZ/PCie interface I could see. A direct PCIe interface provides oodles of bandwidth. I need the ACARD on my linux host to speed up multiple Vmware instances with I/O. I have 12GB of ram, but my XP instance and W2K telecommuting end up using allot of it for caching. As for RAID, I have spare raid cards, but I also have SW RAID0 which actually hits close to 300MB/s reads on the outer tracks of 2 Samsung F3 1TB drives. Writes are 149Mb/s. But what I need is instantaneous read/write random access. Which is why I was considering the ACARD.
June 7, 201016 yr Author ACARD is slower... read the benchmark testing. It's not the interface... it's their implementation. My personal opinion is that their controller implementation likely sucks.
June 7, 201016 yr Sweet, would make a good drive for vmware. Exactly my thought. I have a machine with about 40GB of appliances online 24*7 and another 20GB custom linux appliances for specific jobs i need now and again. If these things come in at the price and performance points being claimed I will be lining up.
June 15, 201016 yr Author Watch Newegg. They are a big Ocz reseller, and if you put Revodrive into the Newegg search, you get the existing Ocz PCIe SSD offerings. I'm inclined to think Newegg will have some of the first stock to ship.
June 20, 201016 yr Author RevoDrive from Ocz - $399.99 at mydigitaldiscount for 120GB version http://www.mydigitaldiscount.com/ProductDetail.jsp?LISTID=80000DEF-1276693151
June 21, 201016 yr RevoDrive from Ocz - $399.99 at mydigitaldiscount for 120GB version http://www.mydigitaldiscount.com/ProductDetail.jsp?LISTID=80000DEF-1276693151 saaaaa-wweettt!
June 21, 201016 yr And wonders of wonders over here in the EU the price is similar when converted. Normally it is much more at launch. No shipping dates yet but I have a close eye out and a spare PCI-e 4X slot at the ready
June 22, 201016 yr Author I asked MDD and they said lead time is a week from order to ship. Likely a lie ... probably more like 2 weeks.
June 25, 201016 yr According to PCPerspective's early Preview of it [ http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=913&type=expert&pid=1 ] OCZ intends to launch at Newegg, July 4th weekend, with the following pricing, 120GB: $359.99 ($3.00/GB), and 240GB: $639.99 ($2.66/GB).
June 25, 201016 yr I take it we would need to have to wait for drivers for slackware to use this as my cache drive.. Just wondering..
June 25, 201016 yr It uses a PCI-Express to PCI-X bridge chip (Pericom PI7C9X130) and then a PCI-X to SATA RAID controller (Silicon Image SIL3124). It may be enough to just have the drivers for the SIL3124, but I'm not certain.
June 25, 201016 yr Author to use this as my cache drive.. Why would you pay 20X the price for the same storage space, to get speed you can't use?
June 26, 201016 yr to use this as my cache drive.. Why would you pay 20X the price for the same storage space, to get speed you can't use? That's a good question, for me, speed is not the only consideration of ssd as a cache drive. On the smaller side, it's not all that much more then 2 60GB vertex's. I was considering an SSD or something like this for the cache drive myself. I like having an always active cache drive so that when I download and drop files on the unRAID server, I do not have to wait for a spin up. I would use it for other network activities also. I.E. syslog repository, mysql db, nfs mount point for /home directories. I'm still debating using the Areca and a couple SSD's, a 3Ware and a couple SSD's or something like this. We'll see what the next few weeks flush out. I do agree, cache drive network speed improvement is probably not the best bang for the buck with this unless you plan to do more with it.
July 2, 201016 yr They did have a blow out on the 120GB SSD's the other day. I was so tempted to purchase one!
July 22, 201015 yr Author Its closer... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227578
July 22, 201015 yr Its closer... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227578 Heck Yea!
July 27, 201015 yr Author It is getting closer.... more pics now http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227578
July 27, 201015 yr I defiantly am. For my vmware OS + swap + a couple of key virtual machines I am expecting a big speed boost.
July 27, 201015 yr My concern about something like this is the continual degredation. I get daily smartd messages about Offline uncorrectable sectors. The number always goes up Just to give you an idea. Jun 6 04:27:34 hercules smartd[4526]: Device: /dev/sde, 12199 Offline uncorrectable sectors Jul 27 10:51:28 hercules smartd[4529]: Device: /dev/sde, 30188 Offline uncorrectable sectors Disk /dev/sde: 64.0 GB, 64023257088 bytes 255 heads, 56 sectors/track, 8756 cylinders, total 125045424 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes OK, It's not allot in the grand scheme of things, but it still has me concerned. I remember reading that the issue with SSD's is not if they fail, it's when they fail it is catastrophic.
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