OCZ Technology RevoDrive Hybrid 1 TB Solid State Drive

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tigerbalm

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From Dealcatcher:
Amazon has this OCZ Technology RevoDrive Hybrid 1 TB Solid State Drive for $229.99 after instant savings and this $100 mail-in-rebate. Shipping is free. Newegg has this same drive for $299.99. It features a 600,000 hours MTBF life expectancy, has a max read speed of 910 MB/s and a max write speed of 810 MB/s. (Expires 03/31/12)

Don't forget tax, which only makes it about $40 less than Newegg... I've always received rebates from OCZ, but this $100 make me a little nervous! However, this seems like a very fast and easy solution as a boot drive AND plenty of room for apps and games! I was going to get a 60gb SSD as a cache for my Z68 mobo, but this Revo is very tempting since it's faster...

Amazon ink:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005J4P0JS/...SIN=B005J4P0JS
Rebate link:
http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/00/00/20/90/91/71/2090917150._V135523813_.pdf

Also, not sure when it ships as site says, "2-3 weeks". As far as purchase date concerning rebate expiration, contact them before purchasing! I assume the purchase date is the day you ordered...but double check! I haven't seen many reviews, as this is a relatively new technology. It's surprisingly fast according to the reviews I've read. NOT FOR NOTEBOOKS!
 
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daveybrat

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A couple of tips for you:

If you are going to post a 'Hot Deal', it would be nice to include the link to it.

Also, you said the $100 mail in rebate, link to that too?

Amazon says 2-3 weeks for shipping so take that into account as well.
 
cubeless

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how weird to have a deal like this and not be able to ship for 2 weeks... do they bill you before shipping so that the rebate is valid?
 
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mleejr

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I pulled the trigger on this. I had a 256gb crucial m4 ssd I had just ordered from neweggbusiness.com with that 15% discount for 280$. For 20$ more I can have 1tb and it's faster. Seems like a no brainer to me. I still had time to cancel the crucial. Thanks OP! Plus, I can use my 10$ GC I got for 5$ a few days ago! I got the 2 day ship for 3$ more.
 
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mleejr

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Ok. I just had a scare. You can NOT find the rebate through the link on the rebate form, which you HAVE to do, through normal means. It says 'NOT FOUND' for that code! Also, I went through all 8 pages of it's SSD list and it's not there! I had to do advanced search and put in the model number and THEN it shows up! JUST FYI!!!! YOU WILL NOT GET YOUR REBATE UNLESS YOU DO AN ADVANCED SEARCH!
 
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mleejr

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DaveSimmons said:
Since it's not really a 1 TB SSD and the Amazon reviews are not very favorable, you might be better off getting a Seagate Momemntus XT 750 GB SSD hybrid for $175 at newegg:
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That's a hybrid drive. This one is insanely fast compared to that and it's a 1TB drive (not SSD, better actually in terms of speed) just as much as any other. They all are estimates. It's close enough.

As for the reviews, there are only 3: 2 1 star and 1 5. The one star was corrected as they guy had a problem with his system but fixed it but not the review. The other guy was using it as a primary boot partition, which I wouldn't use this drive for personally. I think the technology is too new and, no offense to MS, but I don't trust windows to be up to speed with the MOBO MF or these PCI drive solutions for a boot partition. I have a nice 60GB SSD boot partition. My bottleneck is my primary drive which this will now nicely replace. I may get burned, but I don't think so. I'll follow up with my review on amazon and link to it when I get it.
 
VirtualLarry

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mleejr said:
That's a hybrid drive. This one is insanely fast compared to that and it's a 1TB drive
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This deal is for a Hybrid drive as well. The difference is, it has a PCI-E interface rather than a SATA interface. But they are both "hybrid" drives, neither one is an SSD.
 
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Here's another new option that just came out recently:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820233262

Corsair Accelerator Series CSSD-C60GB 2.5" 60GB SATA II Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

It's a nice option for those that already have a large Mechanical hard drive as their primary and you simply add this nice 60GB SSD to your system and it essentially makes it a hybrid drive as well and more stable and compatible.

Not a bad option for $99.00

;)
 
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VirtualLarry said:
This deal is for a Hybrid drive as well. The difference is, it has a PCI-E interface rather than a SATA interface. But they are both "hybrid" drives, neither one is an SSD.
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Yeah, mjeer you better cancel that buy and go for the Crucial M4. $299 for 1TB of solid state would literally be too good to be true. You know the cardinal rule!!!
 
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Amazon reviews are pretty bad for it, I guess these "hybrid drives" don't cut it. I'm waiting for a SSD deal for a 250GB or bigger drive that has really good reviews and priced at less then $200. I might be waiting awhile......
 
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phats1313 said:
Amazon reviews are pretty bad for it, I guess these "hybrid drives" don't cut it. I'm waiting for a SSD deal for a 250GB or bigger drive that has really good reviews and priced at less then $200. I might be waiting awhile......
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I cancelled it. Second drive I've cancelled. I didn't see the hybrid. I know I know.... :(
It actually sounded pretty good once I read up on it. Outside of that guy with the one star review I thought it sounded decent. I might be regretting it.... we'll see. I'm wanting a decent second drive. They have that OCZ 240gb at microcenter for 205$ after coupon and MIR. That doesn't seem bad.
 
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MrTeal

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The concept isn't bad, and $230AR is a pretty decent price for a 1TB drive with 100GB of MLC flash. Two things kill it though, the PCIe slot and the ridiculous DRM on the software. PCIe makes sense for a normal RevoDrive where the SATA interface is a bottleneck, but this thing isn't nearly that fast. Most people have plenty of of 3.5" bays, so a normal form factor would be much better.
 
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DaveSimmons

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For faster-than-platter bulk storage, the Momentus only has 8 GB of flash but unlike all of the others it doesn't need a driver running. If you put your Steam folder there it would cache whatever games you're currently playing.
 
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Lukewarm review of this drive: http://www.techspot.com/review/454-ocz-revodrive-hybrid//QUOTE]

Holy cow! I'm glad I cancelled. I read that article. Look at this one line!!! This is nuts!!

"The RevoDrive Hybrid can only be used as a primary boot drive at this point. Dataplex will only select C:\ as the primary storage drive, while any others can be set as the cache drive."

WHAT!??!?! FORCED TO BE BOOT DRIVE?! The main reason I wanted this was NOT as my primary partition. Glad I cancelled. Thanks guys! What shit! WTF does this have to be primary? That is crazy!
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