OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid Series

88% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

50% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Performance as good as regular SSD, Transfer speeds are incredibly high, High storage capacity

High entry price, If something goes wrong, both SSD & HDD will be unusable

Ideally you’ll be using the RevoDrive Hybrid as a bootable drive, because after installing Windows 7, you’ll need to download the Dataplex software from OCZ’s website as well. Dataplex, however, can only be downloaded once you enter the CDkey that...

Back in 2006, storage tech talk was intermittently buzzy with a few different innovations. One was wrapped around the pending release of Windows Vista, particularly two bullets on its feature list: ReadyBoost and ReadyDrive. In parallel with all of the...

Very impressive sequential performance ; Impressive real world performance ; Offers 1TB of space ; Does not require any SATA ports to work ; Caches only the most frequently used data ; Intelligently sends real time I/O requests to the SSD as well as...

Price ; CPU utilization is excessive ; Not an ?out of the box? solution as software is required for it work ; Must be used as OS drive otherwise software will use your existing hdd instead of the on-board hard drive ; Hard drive is not end-user...

The idea of a hybrid storage solution that combines the capacity of a traditional hard drive with SSD performance isn?t anything new but it

Delivers 38,000 combined IOPS in Iometer tests ; Outstanding 984/839 MBps read/write speed with ATTO ; 1TB High-performance storage capacity ; Primary O/S boot drive PCI-E SSD capability ; 3-Year OCZ product warranty support ; TCG OPAL security with...

SCSI architecture prohibits TRIM with Windows OS ; Expensive high-performance storage product ; Dataplex software requires active Internet connection to install

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Super Fast Under Ideal Conditions ; Tiny and no power connectors required ; Cache algo works very quickly

Somewhat pricey ; Slow HD speeds with uncached data ; Must be installed as the boot volume (currently)

The OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid's performance is difficult to characterize. On some levels, the RevoDrive Hybrid offers exceptional performance, as we saw in the ATTO benchmark. Although not part of any specific benchmark, the RevoDrive Hybrid also performed...

OCZ's RevoDrive Hybrid, their latest twist on the PCI-E SSD genre, is something that users without SATA III supporting hardware may give serious consideration to, but those that have more modern boards have more compelling options to choose from.