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today we're going to be unboxing the ocz revo Drive X2 bootable PCIe solid state

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drive it uses an award-winning design it is sand Forest driven it is powered by

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PCI Express 4X and it uses internal

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raate zero so now that I've read you all of the information off the box I am

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going to open the package and then the Box basically this is an updated version

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and a higher performance version of the original Revo Drive which was released

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really not all that long ago what the revo Drive X2 brings to the table over

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the original Revo Drive is more performance as well as the capability

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for higher capacities because of the way it's designed it is also completely

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bootable so all you do is throw it in a PCI Express 4X or higher slot so it can

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run in an 8X or a 16x slot a 4X slot

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doesn't really matter you're just going to get more band or no you're not going

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to get more bandwidth if you run it in a lower slot like a PCI e1x slot then

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you'd get lower bandwidth but the 4X slot is the optimal one and I'm not sure

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where I was going with that my SSD is faster than your hard drive sticker is

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included you also get an installation and quick start guide all right and

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then since there are no accessories we

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can presume that the revo Drive functions with no accessories and we

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would be correct because unlike SSD

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normal SSD drives hard drive drives pretty much anything else that you plug

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into your computer the revo Drive is

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entirely powered as well as uh it's

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putting all of its data over the PCI Express connector here at the bottom so

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your power comes here your data goes here that means you don't need any

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external power adapters you don't need any external data cables this is it this

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is a 240 gig drive that is powered by

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four count them four sandforce controllers so each one of these

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sandforce chips right here is controlling a bank of flash so you can

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see there's also flash chips on the back and then there's two more sand Force

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chips that are on that level so the revo

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Drive X2 really is X2 it uses two pcbs

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four sand Force controllers running an internal raid zero in order to get the

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blistering fast performance speeds which I don't think I've actually called out

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specifically so the 240 gig and up are

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capable of reads up to 740 mb/s and wres

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up to 720 megabytes per second let's flip it

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over and have a look at the back so that's uh the RAID controller chip right

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there actually so I believe you can actually configure the drive uh in

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something other than raid zero but it comes preconfigured bootable in raid

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zero for maximum performance so there's your uh part number sticker on the back

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the back PCI plate has absolutely

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nothing on it it's completely bare because that's it you take this you

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throw it in the slot boom you have a 240

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gig bootable raid zero drive so thank you for checking out this unboxing and

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first look at the ocz revo Drive X2 240

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gig SSD don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech tips oh ah one more thing

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check this out cool so they've got the drives actually labeled on here so this

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is Drive zero this is drive one and uh

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presumably drives two and three are also labeled down there but I can't really

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see yeah they are