Benchmarks
Summary
We compared the Revodrive directly against the current king in consumer IOPS performance,
the ACARD ANS-9010. We used a series of benchmarks including multiple IOMETER random and
sequential tests as well as HDTUNE to gather results for analysis. The system was set at a standard
3600 MHz while performing these benchmarks.
ACARD ANS-9010
OCZ Revodrive 3 X2 480GB
IOMETER 512b random read
42394 IOPS
65545 IOPS
IOMETER 512b random write
35873 IOPS
53538 IOPS
IOMETER 512b sequential read
41143 IOPS
65122 IOPS
IOMETER 512b sequential write
39226 IOPS
54704 IOPS
IOMETER 4k random read
24343 IOPS
58854 IOPS
IOMETER 4k sequential read
24313 IOPS
66065 IOPS
HDTUNE read average
171.0 MB/s
488.7 MB/s
HDTUNE write average
140.8 MB/s
470.1 MB/s
HDTUNE write average is
also a good indication of
how a drive will perform
in PCMark 05’s hard drive
general test, so the Revodrive
is looking strong for one of
our favourite benchmarks.
The trend of dominance
continues in the IOMETER
512B random reads and
writes benchmark, with 35%
and 33% swings in favour
of the Revodrive. When you
consider that the ACARD is
a device that is populated
with RAM and how dominant
it has been in random IOPS
operations up until now,
you can start to appreciate
how powerful the Revodrive
3 really is. The Revodrive
is not finished though,
with another slaying of the
competition in IOMETER
512B sequential read and
write operations.
We think the most definitive
of all the benchmarks is the
IOMETER 4k random and
sequential read performance
as they closely mimic the
daily operations of most end
users. The Revodrive comes
through to win by a factor of
three in these very important
benchmarks. The Revodrive
is the first device we have had
break 50,000 IOPS in all six of
the IOMETER tests we utilize,
in fact it averages a touch over
60K in the six tests.?
[PRO]
OCZ had to do an
amazing job of this
device considering the
price and they have
certainly done that.
The Revodrive 3 X2 not
only beats the ACARD
ANS-9010 but it totally
demolishes it in a way
we have never seen
before. Considering
the size of the drive
and the speeds being
offered, this product is
extremely good value
for money. Yes, we
know it is $1,364 but if
you wanted to achieve
this performance
with SSD’s you would
spend much more, let
alone trying to achieve
a similar size with
ACARDs. Forget it! It
is not often you call
a product good value
when most people
cannot afford it, but
this is one of those
times. For anyone
regularly working
on large video files,
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