OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 (480GB) Preview: 200K IOPS & 1.5GB/s for $1699?
by Anand Lal Shimpi on June 28, 2011 12:00 PM EST- Posted in
- Storage
- SSDs
- SandForce
- OCZ
- RevoDrive
- SF-2000
- RevoDrive 3
- RevoDrive 3 X2
Sequential Performance vs. Transfer Size (ATTO)
I stopped putting these charts in our reviews (although I do include the data in Bench) because they are generally difficult to read. For this however I just want to illustrate two curves: a single Vertex 3 (240GB) and the RevoDrive 3 X2:
Obviously we're looking at compressible read/write performance, but the numbers are staggering. The RevoDrive 3 X2 is able to deliver just under 1.5GB/s in sequential read performance and up to 1.25GB/s in sequential write performance. What's most surprising to me is that these numbers are at a relatively low queue depth of 4. The incredible scaling beyond 16KB transfers seems to imply that OCZ is actually breaking up transfers above a certain size and striping them similar to a traditional RAID-0 array. Either way we're able to reach some pretty unheard of numbers here.
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HMTK - Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - link
Would be nice to see one of these against a Fusion IO drive. Those are enterprise PCIe SSD's but I wonder how they'd compare.You should try to get one for Johan and test it under vSphere.
davegraham - Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - link
a more direct comparison would be with the LSI Warpdrive. TBH, OCZ still isn't ready for prime time in the enterprise regardless of who's ASIC they're using. If they want to play with the big boys, they need a solid support staff and design team in place.one quick quirk with this card is the full height, half-depth design + daughterboard. in a card-dense chassis (esp. 1U systems), this won't fly. An LSI WarpDrive, for contrast, is half-height, half-depth @ 300GB.
dave
skrewler2 - Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - link
I don't know why you think enterprise means they need 'solid support'. This may be true for some organizations, but probably does not apply to the companies that would actually be interested in seeing these benchmarks.HMTK - Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - link
I think as in support for (server) OS's other than Windows. These things could be nice for desktop virtualization. There you typically don't need lots of disk space but you need massive IO when people start working and stuff. Bootstorms kill VDI.davegraham - Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - link
This card wouldn't do a bad job at bootstorms for VDI use cases but the WarpDrive's forte is going to show up there pretty strongly. ;)davegraham - Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - link
OCZ is deciding to move upmarket and not just focus on consumers and SMB anymore. when that move occurs, they need to have an ecosystem that will support the inclusion of these devices in systems, not just try to price themselves into systems. OCZ also has a storied history of reliability issues that are going to impact this as well.MrSpadge - Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - link
Storagereview.com has it compared to the LSI Warpdrive.MrS
davegraham - Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - link
interesting review with the knowledge that most of the workloads i've used the warpdrive for are shown to be it's forte...and it's still a generation behind in ASICs (SF-1200 vs SF-2xxx). I know there'll be a refresh of that part. ;)parsec21 - Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - link
Storage Review just did a side by side review of the Revo and Warp cards although they are intended for different markets. For a fraction of the price the OCZ Revo outclassed or matched the LSI Warp in most real world benchmarks. The only areas where the Warp led were due to it having HW RAID with six SF1200 processors tied to SLC memory along with a $8000-$10000 price tag.
The results show that the design team at OCZ utlizing a custom virtual controller and async MLC memory created a product that offers a great deal of performance for a pretty good price.
storagereview.com/ocz_revodrive_3_x2_480gb_review
skrewler2 - Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - link
I was about to include that in my post but saw you beat me to it. Would definitely be interested in that as well.