"What will attract speed freaks and workstation professionals will be the RevoDrive 3 X2's performance. Hands down its one of the fastest PCIe SSDs on the market right now and most reasonably priced when you consider the several-thousand-dollar alternatives."

"On the hardware side of things OCZ has put together a good package that will be able to deliver solid performance when all of the pieces are in place. The RevoDrive 3 X2 gets top marks for speed and innovation.”

"Today we will be presenting the SSD-world’s equivalent of the Bugatti Veyron; the RevoDrive 3 X2.

The RevoDrive 3 X2 is a monster when it comes to performance. Where the latest traditional SSD’s are limited to a performance of about 560 MB/s and 80,000 IOPS this product can get up to 1580 MB/s when reading files, and 232,000 IOPS.

There is no doubt that the RevoDrive 3 X2 is one of the coolest products that we have tested."
 

"While many people have yet to upgrade to a regular Solid State Storage drive, there are professional users who demand even more performance. For this high end audience, OCZ have specially crafted the RevoDrive 3 x2, which is said to be the fastest consumer drive by a considerable margin. Gone are the limitations of the SATA 3 interface thanks to the PCI-Express interface. OCZ claim a speed of 1.5GB/s read and 1.25GB/s write with a throughput specification of up to 200,000 IOPS @ 4k random write. Yes, that isn’t a misprint. we are talking 1GB/s+ performance, and then some."

“To say that the OCZ RevoDrive 3 x2 480GB is fast would be the understatement of the year. It is easily the fastest drive we have tested, by a long shot. Obviously, the price means that it will be targeting a very small audience – gamers with large salaries and enthusiast users who want the fastest possible performance for video editing and streaming data. It is clearly not only built for the rich enthusiast, but for the professional sector.”
 

"The results of ATTO and the most demanding benchmark, AS-SSD, point out that the RevoDrive 3 X2 is in a class of its own. It is by far the fastest storage solution we have ever tested at Hispazone.

OCZ clearly has the best product money can buy. We tried to match its performance with a Raid-0 made up from two Agility 3 but they do not compare. In addition our Raid-0 does not enjoy the same technology advantages that the RevoDrive 3 X2 has through the use of the proprietary VCA 2.0 such as SMART or Trim.

Power, control, and user friendliness; the RevoDrive 3 X2 seems to have it all. The evolution of the RevoDrive is so good that even the most optimistic person could not have thought it up."
 

"OCZ breaks its own record again. RevoDrive 3 X2 has the unbelievably blazing speed reaching 1500 MB/s and 230,000 IOPs. With RevoDrive 3 X2, it merely takes 3 minutes to install Window 7. It is the fastest installment unseen before. This SSD has such an incredible performance; it will be such a pity not to recommend it. RevoDrive 3X2 deserves the best performance award!”

“The OCZ RevoDrive3 X2 firmly places test-proven SandForce solid state drive technology onto an extremely fast PCI-Express interface, capable of delivering unmatched operational performance and flash component durability.”

“The OCZ RevoDrive3 X2 PCI-E SSD topped our charts by swiftly overtaking the original RevoDrive X2 to became the new leader for high-performance consumer storage devices.”

“Professionals dependent on efficient productivity can expect extremely high operational performance and storage functionality from demanding applications and extreme I/O environments.”

“The OCZ RevoDrive3 X2 produced the highest 4K performance we've ever seen from a consumer storage device. If your business can afford the asking price, I'm confident your increased productivity will make up the difference.”
 

"Despite the relatively young technology, OCZ is a veteran when it comes to SSD storage. With a range in a variety of different price ranges bet the company it offers not only products for the ordinary consumer but also for the extreme user who hunts for the best possible performance.

The RevoDrive 3 X2 is an exciting product and a worthy successor to the first generation RevoDrive X2. Instead of the previous RAID 0 OCZ now incorporated its proprietary technology called Virtualized Controller Arcitecture or VCA 2.0. In addition to improve the performance it now also includes support for TRIM.

The performance is simply extreme: in our testlabs we were able to measure speeds well over 1 GB/s. The RevoDrive 3 X2 is great in extreme stress situation like server environments and with its current price it is easy to justify the purchase."
 

"The RevoDrive 3 X2 holds currently holds the highest read speed. For daily use by an average user the OCZ Revodrive 3 provides so much excessive performance it could be considered an overkill of power. And given the fact that its true potential is only truly perceived in a demanding environment we recommend the RevoDrive 3 X2 for this professional."

“Essentially it blows away every other product we have tested, tripling the speeds of the Agility3 and more than doubling the original X2 performance.”

“RevoDrive 3 X2 is close to perfection for video work where as a high end SATA model offers limited video productivity performance.”

“Looking first at the build quality of the RevoDrive 3 X2 we have a product which gets all of the basics right. The product is filled with high quality components such as Sandforce controllers and Micron chips but it is probably the OCZ controller which is the most impressive item on the RevoDrive.”

“Crazy fast, completely stable, feature packed and unbeatable.”
 

"One of the coolest SSDs of 2011"

"This is one very impressive drive. Not that we expected anything else. Reads of 1500MB/s and writes of 1250MB/s are numbers inconceivable for a single drive just a few years ago. However, the real highlights here are that OCZ has managed to boost performance to nearly double that of its predecessor and in the process, add support for TRIM - which is a welcome improvement. Redesigned for the better, the RevoDrive 3 X2 is an amazing piece of hardware that not only nearly doubles up on the previous generation in max speed but now offers the all important TRIM to keep that performance going strong long term."

“OCZ's new PCI Express-based SSD offered very competitive results considering its dramatically lower cost and consumer-targeted MLC NAND Flash. The most impressive results we saw with the RevoDrive 3 X2 were in the ATTO and PCMark Vantage tests, where OCZ's new PCIe card handily outpaced even the super high-end Fusion-io ioDrive in all but a couple of tests. What we have been able to ascertain from our time testing the product is that OCZ is definitely on track to deliver a very impressive PCI Express SSD solution in the RevoDrive 3 X2, in addition to laying the foundation for a powerful family of products based on their SuperScale storage accelerator and VCA 2.0 SSD controller virtualization technology.”

“The RevoDrive 3 X2 continues OCZ's tradition of delivering innovative technology able to serve up blistering performance to enthusiasts. And while this seems to be a bazooka in a bar fight, it's truly the workstation version of products that OCZ is also selling into more enterprise-oriented environments in the Z-Drive R3 and VeloDrive lineups. If you're an enthusiast who knows how to use this drive, OCZ's latest SSD smokes everything we've had pass through our lab. When it comes to random performance, you really only need to hit a queue depth of two to start taking advantage of the architecture’s read and write performance.”

“The OCZ RevoDrive 3 x2 PCIe SSD will enter the market with performance never even dreamed about previously in the consumer arena. At 1.5GB read, 1.2GB write and 200,000 IOPS, the Revo 3×2 literally triples the performance of any ‘upper tier’ new generation SSD. We hope that OCZ has considered building a new ‘Awards’ case because the Revo 3×2 is going to fill it quickly. There is absolutely no doubt that the Revo 3×2 is cutting edge technology that speaks well of innovation.”

“If you have the right workload you can push nearly 1.5GB/s of data through the card and hit random IOPS numbers of over 180K. What happens during periods of intense IO activity? The RevoDrive 3 X2 excels. The RevoDrive 3 X2 is over 2x faster than the 240GB Vertex 3 and with compressible data we're almost at 800MB/s for a single PCIe card.”

“If you are in the market for an impossibly fast SSD, the OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 is hard to beat. Going head to head with the LSI WarpDrive--priced almost six times more -- the Revo3 had no trouble keeping up in scenarios focused on single-user environments. Aimed squarely at enthusiasts and gamers, offering an elegant high-performance storage solution without dealing with the hassle or complexity of setting up a four-drive RAID”

“The RevoDrive 3 X2 is a true breath of fresh air to the field of PCIe Solid State Storage. Anyone truly serious about their storage performance should not be without this Drive. I'm giving the RevoDrive 3 X2 my Editor's Choice Award. I'm stingy with this award, but the high level if innovation OCZ brought with this product has won me over. This sort of outside-the-box thinking is needed to succeed in the rapidly evolving field of Solid State Storage. It takes a serious bit of work to start with that concept, pull it off, and do so in a manner that works extremely well.”

“With the RevoDrive 3 series product OCZ is certainly attacking the market with the fastest consumer storage solutions available. The new architecture that OCZ created with the RevoDrive 3 series is clever, a new foundation for the future has been made. Split second application load-ups and ridiculously fast boot times is what you gain. It is fast, furious and super duper sexy, that's for sure. Each OCZ product as of lately seems to be amazing and the OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 is exactly that.”

"With up to 1.5 GB / s, reading and 1.25 GB / s when writing the RevoDrive 3 X2 set new record highs - and the 200,000 IOPS in some areas of Iometer are equally impressive."

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