today we're going to be unboxing the ocz revo Drive X2 bootable PCIe solid state
drive it uses an award-winning design it is sand Forest driven it is powered by
PCI Express 4X and it uses internal
raate zero so now that I've read you all of the information off the box I am
going to open the package and then the Box basically this is an updated version
and a higher performance version of the original Revo Drive which was released
really not all that long ago what the revo Drive X2 brings to the table over
the original Revo Drive is more performance as well as the capability
for higher capacities because of the way it's designed it is also completely
bootable so all you do is throw it in a PCI Express 4X or higher slot so it can
run in an 8X or a 16x slot a 4X slot
doesn't really matter you're just going to get more band or no you're not going
to get more bandwidth if you run it in a lower slot like a PCI e1x slot then
you'd get lower bandwidth but the 4X slot is the optimal one and I'm not sure
where I was going with that my SSD is faster than your hard drive sticker is
included you also get an installation and quick start guide all right and
then since there are no accessories we
can presume that the revo Drive functions with no accessories and we
would be correct because unlike SSD
normal SSD drives hard drive drives pretty much anything else that you plug
into your computer the revo Drive is
entirely powered as well as uh it's
putting all of its data over the PCI Express connector here at the bottom so
your power comes here your data goes here that means you don't need any
external power adapters you don't need any external data cables this is it this
is a 240 gig drive that is powered by
four count them four sandforce controllers so each one of these
sandforce chips right here is controlling a bank of flash so you can
see there's also flash chips on the back and then there's two more sand Force
chips that are on that level so the revo
Drive X2 really is X2 it uses two pcbs
four sand Force controllers running an internal raid zero in order to get the
blistering fast performance speeds which I don't think I've actually called out
specifically so the 240 gig and up are
capable of reads up to 740 mb/s and wres
up to 720 megabytes per second let's flip it
over and have a look at the back so that's uh the RAID controller chip right
there actually so I believe you can actually configure the drive uh in
something other than raid zero but it comes preconfigured bootable in raid
zero for maximum performance so there's your uh part number sticker on the back
the back PCI plate has absolutely
nothing on it it's completely bare because that's it you take this you
throw it in the slot boom you have a 240
gig bootable raid zero drive so thank you for checking out this unboxing and
first look at the ocz revo Drive X2 240
gig SSD don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech tips oh ah one more thing
check this out cool so they've got the drives actually labeled on here so this
is Drive zero this is drive one and uh
presumably drives two and three are also labeled down there but I can't really
see yeah they are