 But then I wouldn't have anywhere to put stuff. Okay, today we're going to be unboxing the OCZ Revo Drive. This is a bootable PCI Express solid state drive. It offers unmatched performance, it is San Force driven, it runs off PCI Express Gen 2 X4, and it has internal RAID 0. So that's all the stuff off the front of the box, which is pretty much all I needed to say about it. It's what they didn't say, surprisingly, is that this is actually the first PCI Express based SSD that brings the price point down to something that would make it actually a reasonable replacement for a SATA based SSD. So the Revo Drive uses an onboard RAID 0 PCI Express, just basically it's just a little RAID controller chip. I'll show it to you once we've actually got this open and I can show you the drive itself. So all it's really doing is it's taking more flash chips, and it's running them with two controllers, and just running it in RAID 0. And then instead of having to deal with the bottleneck of the SATA 2 interface, OCZ hooks you up with a little RAID controller and a PCI Express interface, and that's how you get all that performance out of it. So here, I'll, here, hold on, let's see what's included with it first. Under here is nothing, comes in a nice little package here. Okay, they got a little, my SSD is faster than your hard drive, which is true in 99.99999% of cases. SSDs are much faster than hard drives. Here's a quick installation guide. Locate a slot, put it in. How to boot to the Revo Drive, okay, and installing Windows on your Revo Drive. Fairly straightforward. So the only extra steps you really need to do with a Revo Drive are to configure it to be bootable, which is basically like configuring any RAID controller to be bootable, and then you just need to install the RAID controller driver when you're installing Windows, which is actually with Windows Vista and Windows 7, dead easy. So pretty much anyone should be able to use one of these for their boot drive. This is a full height card, okay, and I'm just going to show you all the main components here. So first of all, this is, oh, wow, look at that. They've actually got a wire soldered on here. So I guess they made a last minute PCB revision, and it looks like they actually had to do some custom wiring. Now, something to be aware of is that this will not cause any long-term effects, because really a wire running on the outside of the PCB is exactly the same as any other trace or wire running on the inside of the PCB, but I was just, I was a little bit surprised to see that. Very cool. Okay, so here we have, you know what? This may actually be the, I believe it's a silicon image RAID controller chip. Let me see if it actually says on their box. I hope it does, because I hate to not know. Oh, well, not a whole lot I can do about it, but I believe this is actually a PCI RAID chip. I believe this chip is actually a PCI Express to PCI Bridge chip, and then these are two SanForce SSD controllers. So what happens is the PCI Express interface here is converted into a PCI compatible signal, but you still get all of that bandwidth, okay? This one is running RAID between the two SanForce controllers, so basically you see this. Okay, we've got eight here, and then eight chips on the back, so 16 chips. Those ones are running off this SanForce controller. And then the other 16 chips on the PCB are running off the other SanForce controller, so that means that you get effectively double the total performance, double the total bandwidth out of a Revo drive that you do out of a single SanForce SSD. So basically, if you cut this up like this, and then stuck a SATA 2 controller on there, then that would be it. That would be one SanForce-based SSD. So OCZ, with a little bit of extra cost, a little bit of engineering know-how, has turned it into something that you can just plug in, and you're running RAID 0 with just one thing. Pretty cool. It's not really that different from what they've done in the past with the Z drive. The biggest difference is that now it's affordable. Anyway, I wouldn't be really doing my job unless I told you what the performance numbers are like. So with 4K random writes, they're promising up to 75,000 IOPS, and with sustained reads and sustained writes, up to 540 MB per second read, and 480 MB per second write peak, and then 400 MB per second sustained write. So these are huge performance numbers, and I think we've had a pretty good look at the Revo drive. And one thing that OCZ has figured out that it seems like a lot of other companies don't is performance parts should have a black PCB. Thank you for that.