OCZ releases RevoDrive 350 PCI-e SSD

OCZ has announced the RevoDrive 350 for the professional market, an SSD on a ‘full-height/half-length’ PCI-e card and with controller chips in a raid0 setup. According to OCZ, which is part of Toshiba, the SSD can achieve sequential read speeds of up to 1.8GB/s.

Available in 240GB, 480GB and 960GB storage capacities, the RevoDrive 350 contains up to four SandForce SF-2282 controller chips, which are in turn controlled by an ICT-0262 controller chip from OCZ. The SSDs are equipped with 19nm MLC flash chips from Toshiba. The SSD can be plugged into an x8 PCI-e slot as a PCI-e card.

Thanks in part to the fast PCI-e interface and the raid0 configuration, according to OCZ, sequential read speeds of up to 1.8GB/s are possible with the 960GB variant, while the sequential write speed would peak at 1.7GB/s. The number of iops for random 4k reads is 135,000, for writes it is 140,000 iops. With the cheaper SSDs, the performance is lower. According to the manufacturer, the SSD consumes 9.5W in idle mode, approximately 14W in use.

OCZ states that the RevoDrive 350 has a guaranteed life of three years at 50GB of writes per day. US suggested retail prices for the 240GB, 480GB, and 960GB versions are $529, 829, and $1,299 respectively.