OCZ Ibis High Speed Data Link (HSDL) 240GB SSD Review

Internals: 

Disassemble!

The Ibis uses considerably more internal room, while sharing a 3.5″ frame nearly identical to the OCZ Colossus.
A pair of Sandforce driven banks of flash are present on the top two boards, while the
other end of the HSDL mates with a SI RAID controller chip (just like the RevoDrive).

Now that I think about it, the Ibis is logically sort of like a RevoDrive on a stick.

Another view of the flash sandwich.

 

Our tests are a good mix of synthetic and real-world benchmarks.  PCMark, IOMeter, HDTach, HDTune, Yapt and our custom File Copy test round out the selection to cover just about all bases.  If you have any questions about our tests just drop into the Storage Forum and we’ll help you out!    

Test System Setup 

We have switched our testbed over to a more dedicated, forward thinking machine.  We made some changes to help minimize test data scatter with higher bandwidth devices.  Sound is flat out disabled, with no additional card installed.  Video was *intentionally* shifted to a PCI unit to free up both PCIe-16 slots for testing tandem pairs of PCI Express cards (like ioDrives, DDRDrives, and high end RAID cards).  Spot checks against the previous rig showed a negligible change in test output.    

PC Perspective would like to thank ASUS, Corsair, and BFG for supplying some of the components of our test rig.    

Hard Drive Test System Setup
CPU	Intel Core i7 920 @ 4 GHZ (HT disabled)
Motherboard	Asus P6T
Memory	Corsair Dominator 6GB DDR3-1600
Hard Drive	G.Skill 32GB SLC SSD
Sound Card	N/A
Video Card	BFG Geforce 8400 GS 512MB PCI
Video Drivers	Geforce 181.22
Power Supply	Corsair CMPSU-650TX
DirectX Version	DX9.0c
Operating System	Windows XP X64 SP2   Windows 7 X64 (for TRIM testing)

• PCMark05
• Yapt
• IOMeter
• HDTach
• HDTune    
  
• PCPer File Copy Test