Patriot Memory flies under the SSD radar
Pros: SATAIII, 500MB/s read/write speeds
Cons: Never enough storage space for the price
It seems that Patriot Memory has been flying under the radar with their SSD's, especially with their SandForce controller based Pyro series. I bought this as a shot in the dark when it was on sale on Newegg and I have no regrets. Crystal Disk Mark had this badboy benched at 500MB average read and average write speeds of 480MB, Patriot lists it as 550MB read and 520MB write so that's pretty close to listed performance when hooked up to a SATAIII controller.
The performance blows me away every time. As a boot drive, it's blazing fast, from the power switch to the log in screen is about 12 seconds and after log in everything is loaded in another 12 seconds. When I thought my old 64GB SATAII Kingston SSD was fast, it was turtle speed compared to this bad boy. Like most SSD's, if you can find this one on sale for basically a dollar per GB, get one rather then conform to all the Crucial M4 and Corsair Force3 SSD users out there
The performance blows me away every time. As a boot drive, it's blazing fast, from the power switch to the log in screen is about 12 seconds and after log in everything is loaded in another 12 seconds. When I thought my old 64GB SATAII Kingston SSD was fast, it was turtle speed compared to this bad boy. Like most SSD's, if you can find this one on sale for basically a dollar per GB, get one rather then conform to all the Crucial M4 and Corsair Force3 SSD users out there
