Product Details
- Brand: Patriot
- Model: PTX256GS25SSDR
- Dimensions: 1.14" h x
5.23" w x
6.14" l,
.43 pounds
Features
- SATA I/II interface
- Raid support: 0, 1, 0+1
- Reads up to 220 MB/sec
- Writes up to 200 MB/sec
- 128 MB DRAM cache
Product Description
Patriot Memory PTX256GS25SSDR 256 GB 2.5" Torqx Solid-State Drive
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
By ChrisLanders6694
I can buy 3 better ones for this price.... I find it a bit offensive that they are selling something like this for so much. No one in their right mind would dish out over $700 on it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
By Steve C
Don't waste your money on this Patriot Memory junk, they don't last long. They seem to be just relabeled Samsung drives with different firmware installed but they are not reliable. The first one I got worked great for 6 weeks then totally died. I got it replaced under warranty and the second one lasted just 1 1/2 days then got so slow it wouldn't boot anymore. Switched back to the old 1Tb WD drive in my PC and it runs great!
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
By Father in Aviation
Ok, first things first. I had to upgrade the Firmware on this device before I could enable TRIM in Windows 7. I knew this going in. What I didn't expect was for this to take me almost half a day. I got the drive when I came home from work (4:15ET). I didn't get the firmware loaded on the drive until almost 9PM. This mostly had to do with what I deem a failure on Patriot's part. The firmware loader requires a bootable Floppy or USB drive. Since I ditched floppies about a decade ago, I had to use a bootable USB drive. I tried about 5-6 methods listed on the web, but nothing seemed to want to work. Why they didn't just have a Flash Utility that would work with windows, I dont know. Anyway, once I was able to craft a bootable USB drive, the FW went on smoothly and everything worked great.This drive is a upgrade from a Momentus XT 500GB/4GB 7200RPM Hybrid Drive. That drive was an upgrade in itself from the stock 500GB 7200RPM drive that shipped with the Laptop. that was a good boost, but no where near the boost the Torqz M28 gave.Upon first boot (fresh Win7 Install using Sony Restore Disk) and after OEM garbage was loaded up, the effects of this drive were imediately noticeable. Factory fresh, my laptop used to take 60+ seconds to load, and up to 2-3 minutes once I'd been using the system for almost a year (AutoCAD, Adobe CS3 and a few other heavy apps loaded, as well as small TSRs and utilites like VPN, VZAccess, etc...). On a fresh boot, the 60 secs was slashed to less than 30 (23 to 28 on several tests). Photoshop used to take 2 mins on the splash screen, now that literly blinks up, then goes right to a blank screen (note: loading a PSD does still take some time, but only a few seconds as opposed to nearly a minute). Once in apps, thats where the benifits tend to stop, but that was to be expected. I never really had a problem using Apps (6GB DDR3 RAM), but loading them is what took a long time.This review would have been a 5-star, had it not been for the round-a-bout Firmware upgrade proceedure. TBO, I actually looked up how to do the Bootable USB drive instructions from a competitors FW upgrade site... Thats just wrong. Also, be advised, this drive is End of Life: ie: No more being made!
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