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so how fast is the ocz revo Drive honestly there's a lot of different

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benchmarks you can run to test an SSD but I'm going to talk more in terms of

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in general theory and I'm just going to show you a quick Crystal disc Mark as

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well as one Benchmark that may not be interesting to you but I personally find

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it interesting so first of all we've got our little Crystal disc Mark run so you

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can see that the specs are uh pretty much ridiculous you're looking at reads

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of over 600 megabytes per second and this is for what is in for all intents

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and purposes four ssds strapped together

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so come have a look at the card itself so you've got 16 chips per sand Force

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controller here and then you've got a um

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PCI Express to PCI Bridge you've got a PCI RAID controller here so we're

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running all four drives in raid zero remember you can configure them in

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whatever raid config that you want that's totally up to you and uh so yeah

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I've left them in Z it comes pre-done in

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raid Z though so here I'm going to actually shut down the computer really

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quick so we're installing update one of two actually Windows updates install

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really fast that's one of the things I really like about the revo drive because I had to set up a new Windows setup in

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order to uh show you guys a fresh install actually here stay focused on

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this though because I'm going to show you guys the boot up time there I press

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the button now and

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uh yeah so it I really appreciate when things just sort of install really

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quickly so it's been really nice about the revo drive now I want to talk while

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we're waiting for the system to boot up about some of the theoretical

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limitations of something like a Revo drive so first of all Revo Drive does

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not support trim I get a lot of questions about this and trim is not

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supported in raid period that means whether we're talking raid on a PCIe

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card whether we're talking about raid on multiple SATA drives that are plugged

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into a motherboard or a third party raid card whatever it is no trim period so

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what that means is that the revo Drive relies on its idle garbage collection in

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order to make sure that the SSD stays

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performing in an optimal State and look at that as soon as I boot it in I had it

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launching word PowerPoint and Excel it

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didn't even hesitate so that is uh in

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addition to going back and checking out my original hard drive versus SSD

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episode on NC Tech tips which you should

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go check out that is just the demonstration that I

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want to show you guys for how Snappy an SSD makes everything you do in fact why

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don't we show you guys a couple other ones Windows Media Center takes forever to launch I think we can all agree about

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that boom done Windows Media Center can

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take like multiple steam boats to

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launch on a hard drive it can even take a steam booat or a steam boat and a half

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to launch on an SSD but on something like the revo drive it's just ridiculous

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so here you know what stay stay tuned with me here I'm going to go ahead and

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start adding a bunch of random stuff to the startup folder so let's put Windows

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Media Player in there let's put uh Internet Explorer in there let's just

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add like a whole bunch of like random stupid stuff to it so how about the

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uh let's see I don't have a whole lot installed on here right now I apologize

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for that guys I wish I had sort of more so why don't we just sort of grab some

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more random dumb stuff and throw it in uh in the startup folder here let me do

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this off camera then and I'll come back when I'm ready so for the sake of being

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able to reproduce this from home we've stuck with mostly applications that

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almost anyone should have installed on their computer so I'm going to go ahead and press enter and we are are we done

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already with that it I was expecting to have like some kind of a time period

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that you can actually measure but there's nothing it's just done by the

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time we hit the desk we don't even see the desktop it's just done so we

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launched the calculator Internet Explorer paint PowerPoint sound

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recorder Windows Media Center Windows Media Player as well as Microsoft Word

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we launched it all and it's done just like that so that's how fast the revo

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Drive is would I recommend that you get one uh

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definitely so yeah that's pretty easy also it has these cool LEDs check it out

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so if I do anything on the uh on the hard drive it actually like it kind of

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reminds me of an airplane because it has like lights on each Wing so you can

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actually see the uh the activity LEDs for these two ssds here and then you can

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see the activity LEDs for the two ssds that are built into the bottom PCB over

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here so anytime you do anything whether yeah so here I'm kind of like accessing

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things you can see they all kind of Flash and it looks really cool in the dark when your systems uh well in the

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dark so thanks for checking out Linus Tech tips don't forget to subscribe to

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lonus Tech tips and don't forget to uh

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check out the ocz revo Drive x2 in all of its Wicked performance Glory

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well crazy Russian thinks it looks more like a spaceship than an airplane but

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you know what they say about people who are crazy they they think they see

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spaceships so hey man I like spaceships and lasers