OCZ Revodrive (PCIe x4) vs. SATA3 SSD (6Gbps)?

[William Park]

My root filesystem can be trimmed down to 7GB.  So, is there a way to
create 16GB ramdisk and use that as root device?  I mean, sort of
ramdisk over a real disk, so that you can keep the data after reboot.
-- 
William

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:53:38PM -0500, Ted wrote:
> There are revo's that go much higher then that, and that is where you 
> blow-away the sata3.
> I was about to buy one, the 1.5gb/s one, but the "as little as" 10,000 
> write cycles still bugs me,
> i bought 32 gb ram instead for 300$, and have very fast ram drives :) 
> (much faster then pcie x4 even).
> 
> -tl
> 
> On 12/22/2011 04:53 PM, William Park wrote:
> >Hi All,
> >
> >Anyone with hands-on experience with OCZ Revedrive (PCIe x4)?
> >
> >I'm curious whether by-passing SATA controller makes any real world 
> >difference.
> >On paper, both Revodrive and SATA3 SSD are 500MB/s.  The only difference
> >is Revodrive is PCIe card, and regular SSD is 2.5" SATA3 harddisk.
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