14 DAY TRIAL // OCZ has recently announced the release of one of the company's most ambitious products to date, the Revo Drive Hybrid, which pairs together a hard drive with an SSD unit inside a single PCI Express storage solution.
This way, users will be able to benefit from the large storage capacities offered by today's platter-based drives, as well as from the high speeds provided by SSDs, as the latter will be used as a fast memory cache for the HDD.
Speaking of the HDD, the Revo Drive Hybrid comes bundled with a 1TB drive that is seconded by a 100GB SSD.
According to OCZ, this configuration is able to deliver bandwidths up to 910MB/s as well as 120,000 IOPS (input/output operations per second) when 4K random write workloads are run.
In order to reach these speeds, a series of advanced caching algorithms are implemented in the drive's firmware, which learn user behavior and adapt storage policies to ensure optimal performance for each individual user.
In addition, the drives also benefit from the introduction of OCZ's proprietary Virtualized Controller Architecture (VCA) 2.0.
"The RevoDrive Hybrid leverages the best attributes of both solid state drives and traditional hard drive technology to deliver dynamic data-tiering on a single easy to deploy PCIe storage drive," said Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ Technology Group.
"Leveraging Dataplex software to efficiently manage frequently accessed data delivers superior performance and capacity, making the RevoDrive Hybrid the ideal solution for high performance computing and media content creation," concluded the company's rep.
The all-new OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid 1TB is backed by a three-year warranty and will shortly be available worldwide for an MSRP of $499.99.
When the Revo Drive Hybrid was announced for the first time at the Computex 2011 fair, OCZ has also mentioned they were working on a 500GB version of the device, but no information regarding this model is available at this time.