240 GB RevoDrive - $599

[Rajahal]

OCZ RevoDrive X2 OCZSSDPX-1RVDX0240 PCI-E 240GB PCI-Express x4 MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

 

$599

 

WANT.

[Spectrum]

$2.50 per GB.....  Does that qualify as a good deal?  /slobber /drool DO WANT!

[BobPhoenix]

$2.50 per GB.....  Does that qualify as a good deal?  /slobber /drool DO WANT!

Yes.  I paid $1500 for 1GB full height 3.5" SCSI drive.  That was ~16 years ago now but I sure would like that money back now.

[AlanJayWeiner]

heh...  got ya beat! 

 

Way back (1989?) I was building a killer system.  I thought I might get into Unix work at the time, so I wanted a *big* disk.

 

Systems then typically had 10MB  (notice - mega; not giga...) drives; a big system had 20MB.  A 40MB drive was Damn Big.

 

I got a drive so big I'd probably never have to buy another.

 

330 megabytes...    for $2200 !

 

Naturally, I didn't use more than 30MB for several years - and by that time 1GB drives were around.

 

I remember when Microcenter opened up in Cambridge MA - one of their opening specials was 1GB drives for $300.

 

I bought 3 of 'em.   

 

[hellbringer]

Be warned: a friend of mine bought one of those drives (120GB version) & plugged it into a Asus Crosshair IV (with latest BIOS, see recommend motherboard list)

Was able to install Windows so it was bootable & seemed to work fine, but could NOT get the system stable, had real lockups every 5 to 20min (mouse / kb not working, sound stopped playing)

After several hours of reinstalling windows, different BIOS settings (voltages/IRQ's/onboard devices), re-installations of hardware, we replaced it with 3 x OCZ Vertex 2 (60GB) running in RAID0.

Almost the same performance and (at the time) a whole lot cheaper than the 120GB Revodrive, and more importantly: stable

 

The Revodrive is a great idea, but it still lacks support & compatibility. But they are super fast when they work

 

120GB OCZ Revodrive

 

3x OCZ Vertex 2 60GB (RAID0)