[citation][nom]fulle[/nom]I didn't understand the need for products like this, until I plugged my OCZ SSD with a 500 MB/s rated read speed into a Sata3 6GB/s port in a Z68 motherboard, and was shocked to see it running at 330MB/s read speed instead, because it was limited in bandwidth by the mobo. I did a bit of research, found out this was typical, and suddenly I'm looking at stuff like OCZ Revo drives as legit purchases, instead of silly niche stuff for crazy storage obsessed people.Anyway, dropping about 200 bucks on a lower capacity Revodrive for a cache drive seems like an interesting idea. There's some compatibility issues, of course. Some motherboards don't work with a Revo drive at all, others require you to run it in only certain PCIe ports, and actually quite commonly, the onboard Raid controller needs to be disabled. So, be sure to check OCZ's webpage, and checkup on your motherboard's compatibility before getting one of these.[/citation]
I actually took a risk. I bought it, spent 699.00 of the 240gb thinking I had PCIe 2.0 on my Asus Commando board. It was not on the list either and I had PCIe 1.1a. There were some firmware and bios updates that seemed to stabilize everything so people are not getting the BSOD's like before. Well, put it in my 4x slot, system saw it, loaded the driver and now I am typing this to you guys with it as my boot drive. Windows 7 HD score went up to 7.9. I do know it is not where near it's potential right now because of my 5 year old board but it is stable, fast and I have no issues.