OCZ RevoDrive 350 PCIe SSD

OCZ Storage Solutions, Inc., a Toshiba group company, announced the RevoDrive 350 Series with workstation-grade design capabilities and performance for professional content creation, multimedia, and gaming applications.

Achieving three times the performance of SATA-based SSD solutions, RevoDrive 350 is based on performance architecture and features 19nm Toshiba NAND to complete OCZ’s portfolio transition to in-house flash, offering a high-performance yet cost-efficient SSD solution for bandwidth-intensive client applications.   

Using the PCIe Gen.2 x8 interface and up to four LSI SF-2282 processors to offer more available bandwidth than the previous generation, RevoDrive 350 features up to 1.8GB/s sequential speeds and up to 140,000 4K random write IO/s, delivering SSD RAID performance without the hassle in an easy-to-deploy, single card solution.

Enabling both performance and functionality for applications ranging from scientific computing  to extreme gaming systems, this workstation-class storage product accelerates application performance and takes advantage of today’s multithreaded processors and software, supporting up to 50GB of host writes per day for three years to provide endurance for media professionals over less robust consumer SSDs.

“The new RevoDrive 350 is built using proven technology with the added benefit of utilizing in-house premium Toshiba flash and OCZ’s proprietary Virtualized Controller Architecture (VCA) 2.0 to deliver highly efficient performance aggregation while reducing the burden on host resources,” said Daryl Lang, SVP of product management, OCZ. “This next generation PCIe SSD is the ideal solution for performance-minded users looking to maximize both bandwidth and density for the complete gamut of gaming, content creation and workstation applications.”
 
VCA 2.0 makes the RevoDrive 350’s multi-controller design appear and act as a single drive to the host system to enable drive-level management features such as secure erase, SMART, and TRIM.

In addition to mass storage, the RevoDrive 350 can also be used as bootable device, promoting fast system boot-ups.
 
Improving on the previous generation, RevoDrive 350 features a sleek integrated heatsink that provides a more stable and cooler thermal SSD environment, and includes optimized drivers redesigned from the ground up with new Linux support in addition to Windows OS. 

Available in 240GB, 480GB, and 960GB capacities, RevoDrive 350 comes backed by a 3-year warranty.