The OCZ RevoDrive 3 PCI-Express 120GB SSD is a very powerful SSD solution, optimized to operate under really heavy workloads.

The drive's dual Sandforce controllers do a great job when they deal with compressible files, especially large ones. We measured a more than 840MB/s (average) speed for write and more than 1.10 GB/s for read with files larger than 256 KB, in Queue Depth 4. Setting Queue Depth 10 or even higher (32 -64) will result in even better results during writing tasks, demonstrating the drive's strengths. The drive also showed great potential when writing compressible large files, i.e. 597 MB/s with 512KB and 530 MB/s with 4K QD32. In the random reading tests,
the RevoDrive 3 120GB SSD was very fast with large 512KB files and also performed adequately when reading 4K and 4K QD32 files.

The OCZ RevoDrive 3 120GB SSD is not than fast with incompressible files, mainly due to the limitations of the SandForce controllers. The performance for theses tests was average, especially in the reading part. So with fully incompressible files expect the RevoDrive 3 to perform as a typical SanForce-based SATA SSD.

The RevoDrive 3 also features OCZ’s Virtualized Controller Architecture (VCA) 2.0 which provides features including TRIM support and SMART data monitoring, something previously unheard of with PCIe solutions.

It is obvious that the the OCZ RevoDrive 3 is best suited to enterprise users or all those working with large video and image files. Gamers and PC enthusiasts could look at other and most affordable SSD solutions, as they most probably not find a lot of potential in this drive.