OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid Series PCIe

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 8 expert reviews

Excellent:

5
Good:

1
Average:

1
Bad:

1

Pros:

SSD-like performance
Easy to use software
3 Year Warranty

Cons:

Must be used as the install drive
Can only be used with Windows 7

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Last revision on January 22, 2020

Reviewers Liked

SSD-like performance
Easy to use software
3 Year Warranty
One of the fastest drives we have tested
Dataplex software is excellent
Tiny and no power connectors required

Reviewers Didn't Like

Must be used as the install drive
Can only be used with Windows 7
Data must first be cached before you see the true performance
Takes up almost two PCI-Express slots

Expert reviews and ratings

OCZ's RevoDrive Hybrid is a hard product to summarize because there are so many aspects that we like, while there are many that we dislike. Let's talk performance first. Simply put, the RevoDrive Hybrid was disappointing. Caching technology requires...

By TechSpot on November 01, 2011

The RevoDrive Hybrid is a unique product which is difficult to compare. At its present market price it is a very nice deal just looking at the hardware specifications alone. The 1TB enterprise HDD provides the benefit of drive size, and the...

By bjorn3d.com on April 02, 2012

When it comes to pure performance once your data is cached the RevoDrive Hybrid is one of the fastest drives that we have tested to date! The only drive that even came close was OCZ’s own RevoDrive 3. With speeds of just under 1GB/s read and just...

By ThinkComputers on March 19, 2012

There's an adage about complexity; the more complex something is the more that can go wrong. While this is not necessarily true in this case, we would be negligent if we declined to mention that we did run into one such issue ourselves. During...

By Techgage on March 05, 2012

We've said it before, but we'll say it again; we love solid-state drives (SSDs). The combination of near-instant access, blazing performance, practically-silent operation and low power consumption is almost too good to be true, and we're now at the...

By HEXUS.net on October 28, 2011

As you can see, once the RevoDrive Hybrid's SSD cache is utilized, boot times are essentially cut in half (please note, we measured the time it took for our test system to boot from the moment the "Starting Windows" splash screen appeared until a...

By HotHardware on October 24, 2011

The OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid 1TB is a marvelous design concept and one that will resolve the concern of needing to buy a larger mechanical storage drive when used in tandem with a solid state boot drive.The caching software really works well and by simply...

By Kitguru.net on October 13, 2011

Right throughout the testing process, its clear as day that the RevoDrive Hybrid does as it says on the tin by harnessing the power of 128GB of RAW MLC flash in a configuration with the two Sandforce controllers that effectively gives 128Gb of RAID0...

By eTeknix on July 23, 2012

To be honest, I was never too impressed with SSD caching solutions prior to this review. For those who follow this site, I've previously worked with the Seagate Momentus XT 750GB which had a small 8GB SLC NAND cache, but ultimately it wasn't able to...

By custompcreview.com on May 29, 2012

The OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid is an odd duck. It shows blistering compressible data performance, but is a little “lacking” on the incompressible data front. On paper, the random data performance puts the RevoDrive Hyrid in front of one of the best SATA II...

By overclockers.com on March 14, 2012

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