Product Details
- Color: Black
- Brand: Patriot
- Model: PP120GS25SSDR
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 3.90" h x
.37" w x
2.60" l,
- Hard Disk: 120GB
Features
- SandForce SF-2200 series SSD processor paired with qualified MLC NAND flash for best performance, value and reliability
- SATA 6Gb/s, 3Gb/s and 1.5Gb/s
- TRIM support (O/S dependent)
- DuraClass technology
- DuraWrite extends the endurance of SSDs
- Intelligent "Recycling" for advance free space management (Garbage Collection)
- Intelligent Block Management and Wear Leveling
- Intelligent Read Disturb Management
Product Description
Powered by the latest SandForce SF-2281 processor, the Patriot Memory Pyro line will continue to expand on what's expected out of performance level SSDs. To meet the demanding needs of the power users and prosumer markets, the Patriot Memory Pyro will deliver blazing fast 500MB+ read and write speeds for the best in class performance. The Patriot Memory Pyro utilizes a fast SATA III 6.0 Gb/s connection interface to reach its maximum performance without bottlenecks while still maintaining backwards compatibility with existing SATA II interfaces. Technologies like TRIM, DuraClass, and DuraWrite are included in the Patriot Memory Pyro Series to bring a full featured SSD to the performance class market. With a very aggressive pricing strategy, Patriot memory has positioned the Pyro series SSD to offer one of the best price per performance ratios on the market. Backed by Patriot Memory's award winning build quality and 3-year warranty; the Patriot Memory Pyro series will deliver one of the most reliable choices in performance class SSDs.
Customer Reviews
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
By Ed
Patriot Memory has been making memory modules and flash memory products since 1985, the year after the Detroit Tigers last won a World Series title. Building on their flash memory expertise, Patriot added solid state drives (SSD) to their line of products. In June of this year, Patriot released their fastest SSD ever--the Wildfire. Just a couple of months later, Patriot announced the Pyro, their consumer-level, high-performance solution.PROS:- Fast read/write speeds- Easy to install- Greatly improves boot and shutdown times- Good price/performance ratioCONS:- No 3.5-inch adapterAt a street price of around $199, the 120GB Pyro is Patriot's least expensive 120GB SATA III SSD drive. It's geared toward consumers who are looking to increase performance at a price more palatable than enthusiast-level SSDs. With printed sequential transfer rates of up to 550MB/s Read and 515MB/s Write, the Pyro promises quite a performance boost, but does it deliver?INSTALLThe installation of the Pyro in an old Dell Inspiron 1420 laptop was a piece of cake. However, hard disk upgrade procedures can vary from laptop to laptop, so I'd recommend looking at the documentation for your exact model to make sure it's something you're comfortable doing. Accessing the hard drive on the Dell Inspiron 1420 was as easy as removing two screws on a panel underneath the laptop, lifting the old drive out and dropping the new drive in.Installing the Pyro in a desktop computer was also easy, but keep in mind that the Pyro does not come with a 3.5-inch adapter mount. Luckily, my PC enclosure included disk trays that support both 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch drives, so I didn't need an adapter.PERFORMANCEI tested the performance of the Pyro on both SATA II (3Gb/s) and SATA III (6Gb/s) interfaces. The SATA II interface was tested in a Dell Inspiron 1420 laptop and the SATA III interface was tested using an ASUS P8Z68-V PRO motherboard. I used ATTO Disk Benchmark and Crystal DiskMark for my tests.On the Dell Inspiron 1420's SATA II interface, ATTO results were 281MB/s Read and 236MB/s Write. SATA II transfer rates were obviously going to be lower than advertised SATA III speeds, but it still exceeded my expectations. On the SATA III interface, the results were 550MB/s Read and 516MB/s Write--spot on with the printed specs from Patriot. Keep in mind that ATTO scores are generally a best-case scenario for SSD transfer rates.Moving on to Crystal DiskMark, the Pyro tested at 187MB/s Read and 143MB/s Write on the SATA II interface. On SATA III, I got 208MB/s Read and 146MB/s Write. Crystal DiskMark scores are typically lower for drives that use asynchronous NAND, like the Pyro, because it uses incompressible data. Using the less expensive asynchronous NAND, is how SSD manufacturers can offer lower-cost drives. In real life, it'd probably really hard for the average consumer to tell the difference between drives that use asynchronouse and synchronous NAND flash.I found the overall performance of the Pyro to be terrific. When I recorded the boot times, I was stunned. The old, 5400RPM Western Digital mechanical hard drive booted Windows 7 in 95 seconds. The Pyro? Just 33 seconds. Every application started up noticeably faster and a nearly 4-year old laptop felt peppy again. Even shutdown times improved a great deal.MISCELLANEOUSPatriot actively updates the firmware of their SSDs. Up until recently, SandForce-based SSDs had some problems with blue screens, random freezing, and trouble waking from Sleep mode. Firmware version 3.3.2 for Pyro SSDs, eliminated all those problems. I ran the new firmware for about two weeks straight and didn't experience any issues.CONCLUSIONThe Patriot Memory Pyro is a fast and reliable SSD drive. With a good price/performance ratio, it's a good choice for those looking to extend the life of an older system with a little performance boost--actually, a rather significant boost. The best part is, when you're ready to dump your old system for a new one, you'll still be able to use the Pyro and it'll perform even better.* Review unit provided by Patriot Memory
20 of 24 people found the following review helpful.
By Tran
First off i rounded up my score to 5 stars, its more like 4.5 or a 9/10. it does not seem far to give it just 4/5 because I like this drive alot.I will break down the review in sections including tips.Initial installation:Pretty easy. it didnt include instructions besides the mounting of the drive.Step 1: update your bios if you are upgrading from an HDD boot to the patriot pyro boot drive.Step 2: For advanced users, you should move your users folder and temp files to save on your HDD. that way when you browse internet/save programs in users you wont be using your SSD drive for short term storage. There are set up guides on the internet.Firmware:For this particular drive, I needed new firmware to be completly stable. without the 3.2.0 firmware I had random pauses, and freezes that would resolve after 30 seconds. After the firmware update i have not had an issue so far. This is likely due to the fast pace of SSD technology, trying to cater to older chipsets and new chipsets alike. Make sure your mother board supportsSata III(6gb/s) for the most compatability and full speed. This may not be a good drive to run on sata II boards even though they claim it is backwards compatible.Gameing:Load times significantly decreased.Frame rate modestly increased in the games tested, hey word being modestmay be subjective, but games seem to run smoother. There is no way to measure that, and it may all be in my head so take that with a grain of saltDesktop apps/start up/shut downprogram windows pop up very fast compared to a standard HDDLoads up to windows in about 27 seconds compared to 59-65 seconds on my HDDShut downs in about 4-7 seconds depending on what is running.benchmarks:Atto: up to 560 mb/s read and 516 mb/s write with raw data. which exceeds factory specs, your results may vary depending on other hardware and optimizationsHDtune pro: a more realistic benchmark with compressed data/varying sizes was less than steller, but data rate was at least 2.5X faster than my HDD for read and write. this utility is really good, and checks for bad sectors and errors. this drive is clean for now.Satisfaction: Very good hard drive for the money with rebate. However performance has been a notable decreased after a month of use, but not by to much.Note: this SSD uses asynchronous memory. Synchronous is higher end, may last longer, and has real performance advantages over time/space used.other options: for a few dollars more invest in a synchronous drive. The wildfire version of this drive is synchronous but the price is abit high compared to the compitition with the same or better specs.Other new generation synchronous drives to consider: note any rebates that are available to save $Corsair force GTKingston hyper XMushkin chronos deluxePatriot wildfire
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
By Thomas F. Harper Jr.
Solid state disk drives have 4 defining characteristics. Its interface with the computer which limits what speeds it can attain in the real world, the type of controller chip used in the SSD, the type of memory or 'nand' and the firmware. The firmware is software that is loaded onto the SSD and used by the controller chip to manage the storage device.This particular drive can use "Sata III" which allows for properly equipped computers to send data at up to 6Gb/s. If your computer uses Sata II or Sata I (it'd be pretty old to be the latter), you top out at 3 and 1.5Gb/s respectively.Only the very fastest tiers of solid state drives can saturate more than Sata II, and you'd have to be doing some serious stuff on a sustained basis to make good use of the 6Gb/s, so for most purposes it suffices to say that this drive will throw more data at your computer than it can reasonably handle.The controller is a Sanforce 2200 series. This is a very powerful and advanced controller, but its suffered from being released early by many eager SSD providers putting it on the market before the firmware had all of the problems worked out. As a result a number of drives with these controllers lost customer data and crashed systems. The current firmware release, just dropped a short time ago by many manufacturers, seems to have all of these problems worked out. There are a few products that suffer from manufacturing issues that affect reliability, but this is not one of them.As far as type of memory, there is 'toggle nand', synchronous and asynchronous, with varying speed tiers within type. Toggle is fastest in general, then sync, then async. But some fast sync drives can approach toggle speeds and some async drives can approach sync speeds.Firmware is the crucial element. Well tested and researched firmware means reliability and performance. Many of the more popular drives go through dozens of firmware revisions every year, most bringing reliability and performance improvements.As you can see by looking at the toms hardware ssd hierarchy chart, this is a tier 8 drive with async nand, the fast 2200 series sandforce controller and pretty reliable firmware. While its far from the fastest drive, it offers excellent performance at a reasonable price point with good reliability. And like all recent SSD's, it offers silence, no moving parts, and ridiculously fast random access to your data. Put it in an older computer and it feels like its gotten faster and newer. Put it in a new computer and it'll fly. Your statup, shutdown, program load and general usage will seem as much as twice as fast. Even opening a browser with 15 tabs takes me half as much time with an SSD as a hard drive.
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