OCZ IBIS & HSDL Extreme Performance SSD Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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1,126 words · ~5 min read
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this changes everything it's it's it's kind of like uh it's kind of like this
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product in that respect it changes everything again SSD technology is
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moving so fast that it's almost impossible to keep up with it so we
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started out with simple ssds 2 and 1/2 in drives and honestly you know what
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performance wasn't great it wasn't even really in a lot of situations as good as
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a traditional mechanical hard drive so that's where we started then we got high
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performance ssds when Intel released their x25 series indel links released
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their Barefoot controller and all of a sudden ssds whoo now they're affordable
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now they're way faster than a hard drive then from there we got even higher
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performance ssds and now with the sandforce controller the Intel Gen 2
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controller as well as crucial's latest controller we're running into the limits
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of the SATA 3 GB per second interface now crucial doesn't worry about that so
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much because their SSD actually uses SATA 6 gbit per second but SAA 6 gbit
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per second isn't even really mainstream yet and not everybody has a controller
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for that so some companies are coming out with some innovative solutions uh
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including ocz with their Revo Drive series of D of uh ssds where they
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actually use a PCI Express interface to plug in SSD directly into your
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motherboard but there's also another way
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so check this out this is the Ibis or
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Ibis I actually don't know how to say it I'm not going to worry too much much about it because the name is not the
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cool thing the cool thing is this card
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right here because the SSD isn't even well it's neat but it's not quite that
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neat and this is what's important about it right there so SATA there you go so
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SATA is what are they saying 1.5 uh oh
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no they're saying it's what 3 gbit per second okay and then SAS SAS is up to
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about 6 gbit per second right now
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hsdl so that is I think it stands for highspeed data link or something like
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that anyway this is capable of almost 20
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20 gbit per second so that means that we
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can take four sandforce controllers remember sandforce controller is almost
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able to max out a SATA 3 gbit per second
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connection we can take up to four of those at a time plug them in with the
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hsdl cable directly into our hsdl card
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and we can get just unheard of performance so let's go ahead and open
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up the box on ocz's Cutting Edge
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high-speed data link hey I got it right interface and it is the answer to the
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SATA bottleneck and the driving force behind the Ibis SSD so the SSD runs off
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of internal raid zero so that's how they're able to take four controllers so
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that is four sand Force controllers they put them all together here let me just
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see if I can get this opened up here
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my SSD is faster than your hard drive darn right it is this SSD is faster than
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a good number of hard drives together I'll tell you that much so there it is
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that is the Ibis hsdl 3 and 1 half in solid state drive so you can see on the
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side we have your standard 3 and 1/2 in mounting holes this is your standard 3
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and 1/2 in form factor we have your standard 3 and 1/2 in mounting holes on
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the back on the bottom rather standard 3 and a half inch mounting holes on the
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other side we have a QC pass so that means that it did pass the QC and on the
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back we have a St oh we have a standard
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bloody well nothing actually no we do actually we have a standard SATA SATA
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power okay so you can actually power this with your normal power supply and
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then we have an hsdl connection right there so it actually looks kind of like
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an sff 887 Cable in fact I think it uses
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one but that's definitely like not a that's a non-standard pin out for sure
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okay so you plug that right in there that's nice and that is the
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equivalent of several SATA 6 gigabit per
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second connections so you go ahead it comes with a nice little sleeved cable
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here you can see the individual wires inside there they're kind of silvery and
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look all nice okay and then you go ahead
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and plug that guy into this little card
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right here and this is where the magic happens because this card
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is a controller card now you can buy an IDE controller you can buy a SATA
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controller you can buy a SAS controller or if you want to oh I dropped it wow
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okay or if you want to have the most Cutting Edge performance possible you
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can buy this controller so here it is it
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looks real simple doesn't it basically what they're doing is they're taking a
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PCI Express 4X interface they're using
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the simplest possible card as you can
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clearly see to deliver as much of that
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performance as possible directly into your SSD drive so you just go ahead
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remove the little uh stopper right there
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the stopper the you unplug the top of
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the bottle that unleashes the power the
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power so you go ahead use one of your PCI Express 4X or higher remember you
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can plug this into an 8x or a 16x connector on your motherboard plug that
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in like that run that drive or wherever the heck you feel like it and boom you
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have performance that is Untouchable with any other solution on the market at
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this time and probably for a while although the the way SSD per the way SSD
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performance is increasing like every time you stop and take a breath who
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knows what is coming down the line now I just want to see the overall specs yeah
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nice so Max performance is reads up to
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740 mbes per second with rights up to
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690 megabytes per second and with up to
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100,000 4K random right iops holy smokes
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thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the OCC Ibis Ibis
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hopefully someone can correct me on that as well as their
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hsdl interface card don't forget to
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