Product ReviewsOCZ RevoDrive OCZSSDPX-1RVD0240 PCI-E x4 MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
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 Rating: Review Date: 07/25/13 |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/15/13 |
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Uncomplicated set up, rapidly. Value! WOW! I have heard some people complaining that this is absolutely nothing far more than an RAID Chip and some memory.Nicely I think the PCIE Drive is good! What do you want?I DON'T SEE Others VENDERS Making AN Effort TO BE Inventive. Sore losers. Good Item! Hold up the great work. I own two OCZ drives and 8 GB RAM all is excellent! |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/14/13 |
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Super rapidly drive, Blows my old WD Raptor away a small difficult transferring from old hd to ssd but is achievable, I followed an individual's directions only trick was I required to use My windows 7 installation disk (repair) to install the drivers needed, soon after that was completed the drive booted proper up and is fast |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/23/13 |
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Appears great on paper! Does not set up with other SATA RAID Controllers I spent the much better element of a week reading OCZ forums, contacting OCZ tech help and attempting to install this item. I have a high end workstation that has two RAID controllers (Intel ICH10R SATA and a LSI 1068E SAS on a Tyan S7025 MB.) I intended to use the solution to speed up image editing applications.One particular of the reviewers stated it all when he stated he had to disable his SATA controller and just use his SAS. Although I attempted this and the install was unsuccessful, I truly use each current controllers so I do see this as a major issue.BOTTOMLINE: DO NOT Purchase THIS Item IF YOUR Program RUNS Yet another SATA RAID Already. |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/03/13 |
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Simple installation. Really rapidly for huge files. Built in raid controller with straightforward interface. Did I say, the quickest SSD for the dollars?? I am not employing it as a startup disc but am working with it for Lightroom and Photoshop. I cannot make any comments relating to the use of this drive as a startup. Sensitive to the BIOS of a single's laptop. For example, I am using it in an HP Z800 workstation and had to shut off the SATA raid controller in the BIOS leaving my SAS controller intact in order for the REVO to function effectively. I would suspect that few out there will have this challenge as most do not have each a SATA and SAS raid backplane. On huge files, create instances consistently amongst 450-480MBS and writes regularly in between 525-550MBS |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/27/12 |
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Extremely Rapid.Simple installation.Great Value (about the very same cost as 2 120gb ssds & you get a new controller) None so far With ATTO disk benchmark v2.46 I am acquiring about 475mb/s create릡 mb/s read.For comparison, I am seeing 121 create렔 read with a 300gb VelociRaptor on the very same motherboard (Asus P6T Deluxe) |
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Rating: Review Date: 11/28/12 |
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Quickly OCZ has the worse rebates ever. I have bought so significantly stuff from them ideal when the rebate started then denied for many of there excuses. DO NOT TRUST THEM I reported them to BBB. If you want a solid product and get your rebates, and a solid warranty, buy Intel or Corsair. They stand behind there solution, and I now search at OCZ as ARCO BP we are just the little men and women to them. |
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Rating: Review Date: 11/24/12 |
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Lightning fast Ɨ.9 on Windows Practical experience Index). Good packaging. Takes an Act of Congress to function accurately. At some point had to shut off standard SATA controller for it to be recognized correctly. Luckily, I was nevertheless able to use the SATA 6 controller for HD and DVD. Hopefully ASUS will come out with an update to permit simultaneous RAID controllers (Rampage III Intense).No drivers included...have to download from site. OCZ is incredibly defensive on claiming their product is fine and the fault is the BIOS on the motherboards. You can be the judge on whose eventually accountable for making certain compatibility in the method, but the fact that NewEgg will not enable you to return for a refund should give you some indication as to how "bleeding edge" this product is. Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are sorry that you have had troubles. We do our ideal to operate with all suppliers, and encourage them to compose their BIOS files so that they work with our merchandise. When only a handful of motherboards are acquiring challenges, it does point tend to point at a precise manufacturer. We care about our consumers, and perform to see that your knowledge is the very best feasible.Thank you |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/30/12 |
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Quick, straightforward installation(make sure you read manual for REVO and your MB Initially); Nevertheless high-priced evaluate to other Raid solution; set up the method in 30 minutes on my Dell XPS 730x, right after a month of running, I am so content about this child, my other laptop or computer will adjust to RevoDrive as effectively, I constantly worried about dick crush in my workplace, but with Revo, I believe it would not that significantly a trouble any much more. |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/01/12 |
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Faster,HAD 3 VERTEX SSD IN RAID , Running OUT OF SPACE DECIDED TO GO WITH PCI-E CARD B/C SPEED. HAD TO DISABLE ON BOARD RAID0 TO BE Able TO SEE PCI-E RAID . Set up Effortless, JUST CLONED THE DRIVE IN WIN7, AND DISABLED RAID . REBOOTED Discovered PCI-E RAID - AND BOOTED WIN7. |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/31/12 |
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Speed. Simple to install, and bootable. None so far. Several people today are saying you have to absolutely rebuild your technique. I did not. I was in a position to successfully image my HD more than to the new SSD with no issues.To do this I:- Loaded the OCZ drivers into my present windows atmosphere and initialized the SSD drive in the "Computer Management | Disk Management" console. Do NOT format the drive, do NOT give it a drive letter.- Ran Norton Ghost in "Copy" mode, deciding on the "Bootable" and "MBR" alternatives, and once again not picking a drive letter for the target. C:\ was the supply, and the unallocated SSD drive appeared as a target devoid of a drive letter. Carrying out the copy this way ensured that the copied atmosphere had the drivers for the drive it was hosted on.- Then I shutdown, and disconnected the boot HD. In the BIOS I then set the SSD as the boot drive. Saved and rebooted, and suddenly Windows was booting from my SSD.Every little thing works just fine. |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/12/12 |
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None DOA.. Looking closely at the board it's clear that OCZ soldered a wire in between the R53 resister and the C11 capacitor immediately after the board was manufactured. These are certainly beta boards OCZ has released to its resellers. Newegg need to take a close appear into this fraudulent practice. Would lock up technique on boot each time the card was installed in any PCI-X slot and would have to reset CMOS. Every single fifteen or so reboots I would get past the BIOS screen and when attempting to install Win7 drive would show up 1ǘ the time but Win7 would not load on the drive. An additional 15-20 reboots and BIOS resets and repeat. Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are sorry for the dilemma. A replacement drive by way of Newegg will have you working properly. We can also help you with troubleshooting on our help forums at the link beneath. We do not ship beta goods, and it is common practice that board revisions may possibly involve a difficult wire jumper.Thank youExternal Link(s): OCZ Assistance Forums| |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/06/12 |
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it's a SSD compatibility difficulties with alot of motherboards like the asus crosshair extreme that i personal. bought it on sept 2010 and up till now no remedy to the problem. the very best factor OCZ buyer service could supply is a e-mail with lots of blah blah blah that could take care of absolutely nothing. get it working with all mobos just before charging 軷.99 Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are really sorry that for the difficulties. The problems are program BIOS related, and we are operating with the board producers to prompt them for updates. Please call our support manager at 鷘ꌅ-8400, ext 206. We will be pleased to assist you. Our target is to insure that every buyer is happy with their purchase. Thank you |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/24/12 |
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Don't will need SATA III in order to max out Windows Knowledge. Don't require a fancy PCIe RAID controller. Don't require a doggone thing except a Revo. I have a tired old XFX 780i, and my Windows Expertise is 7.four. Nope, that's not mainly because of my GTX 465s, it's my Q9400 and my G.Ability 1200MHz memory that is the limiting element. The two PCIe x8 slots have the video cards, and the PCIe x4 slot has the Revo. Oh yeah, I'm a happy camper. None! The OCZ web site has two complete threads on their forum that inform you how to install this point, total with a bunch of lazy complainers who didn't want to follow their ideas and lost their fanny.Let's face it, OCZ wants their prospects to be pleased. They know what a hassle it is to start all over from scratch. But they also know that the Revo is a paradigm shifting expertise like you by no means saw in your life. So reluctantly they inform you to strip your computer system down to the bone and begin more than. It sounds like a major hassle, but when you see how quick you can put almost everything back, it just ain't that poor.Here's a believed for you video gamers: Globe of Warcraft is 22GB plus of programming. It is a thick client /server device that requires about five hours on Verizon FioS to download and install. I copied and repaired (using the WoW Repair exec) from my old drive to the Revo in 7 minutes. Yep, it copied and CRC checked all 22GB+ of files in 6 minutes. That's impressive. This is a RAID, and TWO Sandforce controlled MLC 120GB SSD drives in a RAID Zero configuration all soldered to a single PCIe 8x card.NEWS FLASH! You are going to have to totally disassemble your laptop or computer and rebuild it from scratch, just like day one particular. You WILL have to disable your onboard RAID controller. You WILL have to take away your tough drives. You WILL have to take out your sound card. And you WILL have to take your second Video card out.Following you have done all that, THEN you can install your Revo. It will function perfectly, and it will be so quick that you will be able to re-install all of your software in a single evening (which I just did). Oh, that included re-installing my second GTX 465, the SLI drivers, nVidia 3D, E-Mu 1212m, and my Seagate 750GB common drive.By performing this as a total rebuild, Windows 7 x64 Specialist decided that the Revo was Each my "C" drive, AND my Turbo Boost drive, and it automatically partitioned and labelled it as such. Smokin'! |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/21/12 |
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Quickly Straightforward to InstallGood with Win7 64Works WITH EVGA E762 M/B with BIOS Version 74 Ɨ-7-ten) None so far, Other than my very first RevoDrive had a bad Drive Fault, thanks to newegg RMA, I got my second RevoDrive the identical week. 1) Make certain you default your M/B and update it.two) DISABLE ALL RAID AND Get rid of ALL SATA DRIVES WHEN YOUR O/S IS ON A USB.3) Install Windows and Install RevoDrive Driver When Prompted (where you select the drive to install windows, than click on load drivers) USB THUMB DRIVE IS Advise. IMOfour) Install your Sound card and other stuff.GO TO OCZ FORUMS FOR Far more Info |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/02/12 |
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More quickly than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall software in a single bound. This is the Superman of personal computer drives.The Revo is your RAID, and your SSDs, and your wear leveling device, and your garbage collector, all on a single board about the size of a decent sound card. You ought to entirely rebuild your laptop or computer from scratch, one piece at a time, from the beginning.You must disable or uninstall your other RAID devices, considering that this 240GB Revo is:- A Silicon Image RAID controller tough wired for RAID - Two Sandforce controlled 120GB SSDs- A PCIe x4 bus interfaceIt was certainly created to be a "sole source" answer to everything you will need for main storage. Therefore, it doesn't play properly with the lesser storage devices you could have. You want to get Windows oriented to your Revo 1st, then you can re-introduce the other storage devices you might use. Warning! A Revo comes straight out of the box "safe erased". Do NOT format it!I installed this on my XFX 780i just final night. It is still an awe inspiring device. It transformed my 2008 vintage motherboard into a cutting edge SLI monster in 4 hours. Strip pc to minimum assets, install Win7x64 Specialist, add back sound & SLI video, install drivers, install progamming, enjoy. OCZ forum for Revo tells you specifically that this is what need to be done. Don't tell your self that you are smarter than they are. Just do it.PS: Don\'t forget all that baloney you told your friends then you got your Raptor? Ya know trash you talked when you got your SATA II SSD? Effectively, after you install your Revo, it will all come accurate.Final thought: Windows 7 x64 Qualified truly did partition 100MB of my Revo as a storage buffer. As a result, it sped up the apparent response times of my regular Seagate Barracuda. As an alternative of getting a 16MB buffer, it now has a 100MB buffer. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/04/12 |
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ocz does not course of action their rebates. ocz is connected with a dishonest rebate home permitting them to destroy their name. i just wanted to leave a evaluation in response to the reply ocz made on yet another individual's review. you employ a rebate house to deal with your rebates which isnt undertaking a great job and ruining your clients encounter. due to the fact you employ them to do your work it is nevertheless regarded as your bussiness' selection to be component of the issue. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/24/12 |
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See my other reviews OCZ has cut the value on this item, but refused to accept my newegg Invoice as a appropriate invoice. I paid 輁 with a ฮ rebate. Now it is 軷 with a ฮ rebate. I'm not happy with this product, any longer. OCZ asked that I send my newegg Invoice once more. Given that it is the exact identical invoice as the very first one particular I sent, I'm expecting them to deny my rebate, once more. If that happens, I will never ever obtain another OCZ product, regardless of how well they carry out. I don't deal with dishonest organizations. Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are sorry that you are having rebate issues. OCZ does not process rebates in home. We employ a rebate house to do all processing. We will be happy to get in touch with the rebate home and will see that your legitimate claim is paid. Please e mail rebates@ocztechnology.com and include your full name, address, item and date and place of buy.Thank you |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/09/12 |
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None DOA. Considering that this works through two separate drives with a raid chip, both physical drives must perform in order for the "logical drive" to be recognized.The excellent news is that all was properly upon bootUp, but the poor news is that it crashed upon making use of it, creating havoc to my method. Newegg, even so is excellent, issued me an RMA instantly and I will see if the subsequent one particular functions. Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are really sorry for the challenge. Your replacement drive must perform out fine for you. If we can be of assistance, please pay a visit to our assistance forums at the link beneath.Thank youExternal Link(s): OCZ Support Forums| |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/24/12 |
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-Bootable-Extremely rapid-240G sufficient space for a couple games-Doesnt take a SATA Port None so far |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/21/12 |
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This has to be where SSD is headed and it is a wonderful notion , I have this installed and running Win 7 64 bit and am quite content with the hardware. Till they come out with the next product that tops this and then I will want that as well. ( Revo x2 ??) This is not truly a con but it is not just a rapid basic install like you would get with a regular SATA device. The reason becoming it is so new that the Motherboard makers now have to accomodate this new technologies in thier bios, and there are a lot of distinct firms out there making motherboards and there are a lot of distinct models so it may possibly take a little bit of time for them to update thier bios. On the other hand if you read the forums on the OCZ website and follow thier directions you should get this installed. I don't recognize why some persons will rate a item with only one particular egg simply since thier rebate got messed up , in some of those posts there was no mention of how the device was operating or if they even liked it , all they cared about was the rebate. I can understand becoming upset about the rebate but at least be fair with the revue and rate the product as nicely. |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/02/12 |
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When working suitable this drive is rapidly as hell tcpip.sys erorr, and an additional erorr I can't recall each time I attempt to d/l WOW, or playing other games I get blue screened, replaced Asus Crosshair IV Extreme motherboard, but come to locate out it isn't even the board, I removed the card and the pc functions usually, I spent between this board and challenging drive and for the very first time I am shocked this drive is junk Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are extremely sorry that you are having gaming concerns. Please check out our support forums at the link below and we will be content to help you with your installation and resolve your difficulty. Thank youExternal Link(s): OCZ Support Forums| |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/19/11 |
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Quite rapid, no moving components, decent capacity Died within a month, conflicted with my Creative Labs sound card (had to preserve reinstalling my sound card to get it operating once again), each five boots it required to do an automatic scandisk to fix errors, occasional 4sec lockup when opening programs This device has a lot of possible, but nevertheless needs operate. Fortunately I had imaged my C: drive onto a backup drive a couple days prior to this thing died or I would have lost all my data. Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are sorry for the difficulties. Please visit the link beneath and generate a support ticket to get in touch with our staff. We will be glad to help you with an RMA. We will also be happy to assist you with your application and driver concern on our support forums at the 2nd link beneath. Thank youExternal Link(s): OCZ Support Page| OCZ Support Forums| |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/17/11 |
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Quickly. Extremely Rapidly. Did I mention it's fast? Installation can be a bit tricky. Not all motherboards will support this device. The unit I received required the pci bracket loosened slightly to fit properly. Extremely high expense per gigabyte. If you are searching for a serious performance upgrade for your machine, this is it. Windows installs in minutes, upgrades and patches fly by, new programs are installed and ready to run practically immediately. BUT you genuinely must have at least a standard expertise of hardware to install this device correctly. You will want to disable most onboard devices and eliminate all other challenging drives ahead of installation. As with a lot of RAID cards, you will need to have to load the drivers on a CD or USB stick to feed into Windows for the duration of the install process. Don't let this intimidate you- if you are reasonably tech-savvy and can google and follow directions you can install this card effortlessly. The hassle to install the card is nicely worth it- this is the most noticeable upgrade I have ever produced to a PC. Adding a lot more RAM, a far better video card, quicker processor, and so on. all make a difference, but this 1 is noticeable in nearly just about every frequent task.Keep in mind you will probably also want a conventional drive for mass stora |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/14/11 |
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It's faster than a normal SSD on paper. It's excellent to do analysis. It's truly a decent paper weight. Just put, this item is unfinished it's only worthwhile if you know you have compatible hardware. OCZ released a item that has questionable style characteristics. Soon after speaking to OCZ tech support I learned the following. You Cannot Update the firmware of the RevoDrive, I was told" We slapped a Silicon Image Raid Chip on a PCIe board with two Sandforce controllers" by OCZ tech support, and no the Sil3124 raid controller driver hasn't been altered to far better match the Revodrive hardware or function. The Revo is not quicker than a SATA SSD, it's on par with a C300. Revo=Half Duplex Each and every "launch item" (and some non-launch) I've bought from OCZ has ended in some kind of catastrophic failure and an RMA. (And you don't usually get an item back that's an original equivalent class of product and buy price of what you paid for.There's no warning or compatibility list produced public about which boards ought to will not work with this item, such as the EVGA SR2 9ቦ times when calling OCZ tech support I was either transferred and then disconnected, deferred to a different department and given a email which doesn't exist for contact info. I was only able to reach 1 person who knew what he was talking about.This item does function, it is quickly, it's innovative, it's not but finished beta testing, sadly that's what we're all paying for. I'll not be buying OCZ goods once more, not immediately after this and the Core Series SSD mess, I've lost too much money, information and time. OCZ has lost my respect, these issues ought to be recalled or a warning of compatibility related to this item need to be created public.On an additional note, hardware style 101; when integrating a third-party chip onto a piece of hardware, exactly where that hardware function in practice is slightly diverse than what the chip was designed for, you're going to run into issues.Bottomline: unless you're completely confident you have compatible hardware do not get this item you'll lose Manufacturer Response:Hello, we are sorry that you have had issues. If we can be of help, please check out our support forums at the link below. Our SSD forum staff is knowledgeable and can correctly advise you.Thank youExternal Link(s): OCZ Support Forums| |
The REVO drives are the finest and quickest boot drives I've ever seen. I am acquiring ready to obtain a different one of these for my spouse's pc. After living with a REVO for various months, I can't imagine going back to making use of an on-board drive controller. No cables, no power supply wires, no fuss with routing, no SATA locks that get stuck and won't come loose.The Sandforce controllers are fabulous. These drives don't "get slow" after you use them. Even when they do slow down, it's just temporary. Leave the personal computer on all evening, tomorrow it's like the drive is brand new. The REVO is a prima donna. It desires to be first in your pc's life, and it desires you to speak to it prior to you speak to anyone else. Inform the truth, I don't care. My REVO is so quick that I migrated everything I had onto it and pulled my Seagate Barracuda out. I have my old challenging drive in a static protected bag on a shelf, just in case of an emergency. If you want to see what a 7.9 feels like on your Windows Experience disc drive rating, acquire a REVO and come across out. I would like to apologize to OCZ for reaming them out for their rebates. It took MONTHS, but we worked things out. I got my pre-paid debit card in the mail, just right now. ฮ rebate, just like they promised. Thank you, quite considerably. Subsequent time I want to replace a hard drive, I won't even flinch. It will be an OCZ integrated storage resolution. I'm through with cables, bottlenecks, and messing about with setting up RAID arrays. A REVO or an IBIS requires care of all that for you. And it's more rapidly than anything you could possibly do by oneself.