{"id":3317,"date":"2011-12-18T20:59:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T09:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=3317"},"modified":"2011-12-18T20:59:01","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T09:59:01","slug":"ocz-revodrive-3-x2-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/ocz-revodrive-3-x2-update\/","title":{"rendered":"OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thought I would provide an interim update on how I am going with the new OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 solid state drive that I received in the last week.<\/p>\n<p>Windows 7 Ultimate is up and running after a minor wrestle to get Windows setup up and running. I had to revert all of the other AHCI controllers to legacy IDE mode in the BIOS to get past an early &#8220;blue screen of death&#8221; (BSoD). However, once that was handled the only other thing to consider was loading up the driver for the solid state drive to make it show up as a candidate to host the operating system. The\u00a0rest of the installation was fairly simple from that point and after Windows was installed I re-enabled AHCI.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve reinstalled nearly everything else I require including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft Office 2010,<\/li>\n<li>Internet Explorer 9, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox,<\/li>\n<li>iTunes, VLC &amp;\u00a0Zune,<\/li>\n<li>Goole Talk, Skype and Windows Live Messenger,<\/li>\n<li>other bits and pieces.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most were reinstalled using <a title=\"Automatically Reinstall Common Applications After a Format with Ninite | Boydo's Tech Talk\" href=\"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/automatically-reinstall-common-applications-after-a-format-with-ninite\/\">one of my favourite tools, Ninite<\/a> which I have written about previously.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also installed Steam to get some preliminary <del>gaming<\/del> testing under the belt as well.<\/p>\n<p>So far, I&#8217;m not disappointed but will look to give it a more comprehensive work out ahead of my review of the solid state drive.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thought I would provide an interim update on how I am going with the new OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 solid state drive that I received in the last week. Windows 7 Ultimate is up and running after a minor wrestle to get Windows setup up and running. I had to revert all of the other &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/ocz-revodrive-3-x2-update\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,152,151,92,18,155],"tags":[176,2292,2246,158,1765,2281,1766,442,999,2278],"class_list":["post-3317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flash","category-microsoft-operating-systems-technology","category-operating-systems","category-storage","category-technology","category-windows-7","tag-ahci","tag-ide","tag-microsoft","tag-ninite","tag-ocz","tag-office","tag-revodrive-3-x2","tag-solid-state-drive","tag-storage-2","tag-windows-7","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}