Revodrive X2 vs Vertex 3

[jsmith65]

I'm in the final stages of a new workstation build and am really really torn between 2 boot drives:
the OCZ Revodrive X2 240GB
the OCZ Vertex 3 240GB

Which one do you guys think I should get? Which would have better performance and by what margin would it be better?

As always, thanks for the help.

 

[semo]

1st I would never recommend an OCZ product because of the 25nm transition fiasco (and if you are in the UK because their RMA address is in the Netherlands)

The two drives you listed are in completely different categories. One is just a RAID of SSDs with a PCIe and the other one is a single SATA drive. The revo is made up of 4 SF 1200 chips, whereas the V3 is SF 2200 series.

Unless you will be using your SSD for intensive IO applications, then I would go with a SATA SSD (but not from OCZ). I assume that there is a reason you are going for a 240GB SSD?

 

[=Wendy=]

Revo X2 is faster than Vertex 3, but you need to make sure the Revo is compatible with your motherboard.

If your new build is Sandy Bridge or one of the new AMD boards with SATA 6Gbps, then I'd go with Vertex 3. If not then Revo X2 is probably your best bet.

If your into video editing, recoding or transcoding, graphics editing or audio editing, then the massive sequential performance of both these SSDs will be very noticeable in regards to performance.

 

[groberts101]

I would buy 2 x 120GB Vertex Max IOPS and riad them for faster performance(if running on 6G mobo) and same capacity for similar money. Much more flexible in the long run as well.

 

[nanaki333]

i thought you take a much bigger performance hit on the 120 v3 as the drive fills up compared to just a single v3.

 

[groberts101]

i thought you take a much bigger performance hit on the 120 v3 as the drive fills up compared to just a single v3.

if comparing 120GB single to 240GB single the difference would be slight with the newer controller. With the last gen SF controller the difference in throttling would be quite large. I was talking about using 2 x 120GB for similar capacity though. same-same