OCZ RevoDrive 400 M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD Benchmarked

Legit Reviews had a chance to swing by the OCZ Storage Solutions meeting room and take a look at all of their storage products that they are currently offering or will be shortly here in 2016. The client SSDs that were on display were the OCZ Trion 100, Trion 150, Vector 180 and RevoDrive 400 Series.

The Trion 100 and Vector 180 series drives and have been on the market some time, so the two ‘new’ drives are the OCZ Trion 150 and the RevoDrive 400. The entry-level OCZ Trion 150 with next generation Toshiba 15nm TLC NAND Flash instead of Toshiba A19 TLC NAND Flash is nice to see, but the sequential read/write speeds remain the same at up to 550MB/s read and up to 530MB/s write. The Random 4K IOPS also remain the same at 90,000 IOPS as do the Random 4K Write at 64,000 IOPS. OCZ has made significant changes to the firmware to help the performance of the drive, but from a general specification standpoint it’s nothing revolutionary. The OCZ RevoDrive 400 NVMe drives on the other hand are something we’ve been waiting for and we’ve been covering since IDF 2015.

The OCZ RevoDrive 400 NVMe Series will consist of both M.2 and 2.5-inch form factor drives with capacities of 128GB, 256GB 512GB and 1TB for the M.2 2280 and 2.5-inch form factors. There will also be a 512GB RevoDrive 400 M.2 2260 solution for those looking for something a little smaller.

The OCZ RevoDrive 400 PCIe Gen3 x4 M.2 device will feature a Toshiba controller and Toshiba 15nm MLC NAND Flash memory. OCZ said that the drive will have write cache enhancement. The drive is fully NVMe 1.1b compliant, backed by a 5-year ShieldPlus warranty and has speed ratings of up to 2400 MB/s read, 1,500 MB/s write and up to 210,000 IOPS.

This is the Intel Z170 platform that OCZ was using to run the performance tests on at CES 2016.

In CrystalDiskMark v5.1.0 they were getting 2667 MB/s Sequential Read and 1601 MB/s sequential write at QD32. The 4K performance at the same queue depth was 754MB/s read and 577 MB/s write. Yesterday we looked at the HyperX Predator 480GB M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD and it scored 1775 MB/s read and 1675 MB/s write speeds on the 0Fill test.

ATTO appears to have the OCZ RevoDrive 400 512GB M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD topping out at 2704 MB/s read and 1619 MB/s write.

Pretty solid performance numbers, but do you NV the drive?