Internals, Testing Methodology and System Setup
Internals:
Before we dive in, I like how OCZ kept a clean look of the front face by placing the serial along the bottom edge:
After voiding the warranty:
With the heatsink out of the way, we see four quads of Toshiba flash memory, with the bottom side of the pads for four total SandForce controllers (they are on the opposite side of the PCB). In the 350 configuration, four SF controllers each drive eight flash packages.
Looking closer at the PCB, we see a PCIe 2.0 x8 bridge PHY (center) which enables the OCZ VCA 2.0 chip (upper right) to communicate at twice the bus throughput as compared to the RevoDrive 3×2, which used only 4 lanes.
Flipping the PCB over, we see 16 more Toshiba flash packages, along with four SandForce 2282 controllers.
Testing Methodology
Our tests are a 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 currently employ a pair of testbeds. A newer ASUS P8Z77-V Pro/Thunderbolt and an ASUS Z87-PRO. Variance between both boards has been deemed negligible.
PC Perspective would like to thank ASUS, Corsair, and Kingston for supplying some of the components of our test rigs.
| Hard Drive Test System Setup | |
| CPU | Intel Core i7-4770K |
| Motherboard | ASUS P8Z77-V Pro/TB / ASUS Z87-PRO |
| Memory | Kingston HyperX 4GB DDR3-2133 CL9 |
| Hard Drive | G.Skill 32GB SLC SSD |
| Sound Card | N/A |
| Video Card | Intel® HD Graphics 4600 |
| Video Drivers | Intel |
| Power Supply | Corsair CMPSU-650TX |
| DirectX Version | DX9.0c |
| Operating System | Windows 8.1 X64 |
- PCMark05
- Yapt
- IOMeter
- HDTach
- HDTune
- PCPer File Copy Test
Allyn, great review as
Allyn, great review as always. What was your reasoning behind adding the P3700 instead of the P3500 which, as you said, is the competition here? Unless I am mistaken, the IOPS on the OCZ RevoDrive are ~2x that of the P3500 drive.
Also, how soon is NVME support expected to arrive for motherboards? Would x99 platform would a reasonable guess?
Thanks!
The P3500 has not yet been
The P3500 has not yet been sampled, so we have no P3500 figures to include (yet!).
This drive is amazing.
This drive is amazing. :drool:
Hey Allyn, any thoughts on if
Hey Allyn, any thoughts on if OCZ has driver priorities for Win 7 at this point? Most enthusiasts and benchers are on Windows 7. Having benchmarks (2D and 3D, not SSD)on this drive would be pretty amazing.
Well, OCZ prioritized Window
Well, OCZ prioritized Window 7 development enough to include a special filter driver to add TRIM support to 7. They could have opted to support TRIM under only Windows 8 and up, but didn't, which is telling.
Hei Allyn, Do you know if it
Hei Allyn, Do you know if it can run on windows 2012 R2?
amazing review btw 🙂