so how fast is the ocz revo Drive honestly there's a lot of different
benchmarks you can run to test an SSD but I'm going to talk more in terms of
in general theory and I'm just going to show you a quick Crystal disc Mark as
well as one Benchmark that may not be interesting to you but I personally find
it interesting so first of all we've got our little Crystal disc Mark run so you
can see that the specs are uh pretty much ridiculous you're looking at reads
of over 600 megabytes per second and this is for what is in for all intents
and purposes four ssds strapped together
so come have a look at the card itself so you've got 16 chips per sand Force
controller here and then you've got a um
PCI Express to PCI Bridge you've got a PCI RAID controller here so we're
running all four drives in raid zero remember you can configure them in
whatever raid config that you want that's totally up to you and uh so yeah
I've left them in Z it comes pre-done in
raid Z though so here I'm going to actually shut down the computer really
quick so we're installing update one of two actually Windows updates install
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
order to uh show you guys a fresh install actually here stay focused on
this though because I'm going to show you guys the boot up time there I press
the button now and
uh yeah so it I really appreciate when things just sort of install really
quickly so it's been really nice about the revo drive now I want to talk while
we're waiting for the system to boot up about some of the theoretical
limitations of something like a Revo drive so first of all Revo Drive does
not support trim I get a lot of questions about this and trim is not
supported in raid period that means whether we're talking raid on a PCIe
card whether we're talking about raid on multiple SATA drives that are plugged
into a motherboard or a third party raid card whatever it is no trim period so
what that means is that the revo Drive relies on its idle garbage collection in
order to make sure that the SSD stays
performing in an optimal State and look at that as soon as I boot it in I had it
launching word PowerPoint and Excel it
didn't even hesitate so that is uh in
addition to going back and checking out my original hard drive versus SSD
episode on NC Tech tips which you should
go check out that is just the demonstration that I
want to show you guys for how Snappy an SSD makes everything you do in fact why
don't we show you guys a couple other ones Windows Media Center takes forever to launch I think we can all agree about
that boom done Windows Media Center can
take like multiple steam boats to
launch on a hard drive it can even take a steam booat or a steam boat and a half
to launch on an SSD but on something like the revo drive it's just ridiculous
so here you know what stay stay tuned with me here I'm going to go ahead and
start adding a bunch of random stuff to the startup folder so let's put Windows
Media Player in there let's put uh Internet Explorer in there let's just
add like a whole bunch of like random stupid stuff to it so how about the
uh let's see I don't have a whole lot installed on here right now I apologize
for that guys I wish I had sort of more so why don't we just sort of grab some
more random dumb stuff and throw it in uh in the startup folder here let me do
this off camera then and I'll come back when I'm ready so for the sake of being
able to reproduce this from home we've stuck with mostly applications that
almost anyone should have installed on their computer so I'm going to go ahead and press enter and we are are we done
already with that it I was expecting to have like some kind of a time period
that you can actually measure but there's nothing it's just done by the
time we hit the desk we don't even see the desktop it's just done so we
launched the calculator Internet Explorer paint PowerPoint sound
recorder Windows Media Center Windows Media Player as well as Microsoft Word
we launched it all and it's done just like that so that's how fast the revo
Drive is would I recommend that you get one uh
definitely so yeah that's pretty easy also it has these cool LEDs check it out
so if I do anything on the uh on the hard drive it actually like it kind of
reminds me of an airplane because it has like lights on each Wing so you can
actually see the uh the activity LEDs for these two ssds here and then you can
see the activity LEDs for the two ssds that are built into the bottom PCB over
here so anytime you do anything whether yeah so here I'm kind of like accessing
things you can see they all kind of Flash and it looks really cool in the dark when your systems uh well in the
dark so thanks for checking out Linus Tech tips don't forget to subscribe to
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check out the ocz revo Drive x2 in all of its Wicked performance Glory
well crazy Russian thinks it looks more like a spaceship than an airplane but
you know what they say about people who are crazy they they think they see
spaceships so hey man I like spaceships and lasers