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July 2011
(84%)
86 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(80%)
11 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
Excellent Performance and Transfer Speeds
Increased Application Performance and Start Up Times
3 year Warranty
Trim and Garbage Collection (With Proper OS)
Up to 555MB/s Read and 520MB/s Write
SandForce SF2200 Series Controller
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SandForce's Reign of PPPerformance
The SandForce 2281 controller is the key component when communicating with the storage controllers found on motherboards and HBA cards. The current theory is that some where in that communication
The 2.5-inch laptop Patriot WildFire solid-state drive (SSD) comes with a drive-bay converter so it can also fit in a 3.5-inch (desktop) drive bay. It supports SATA 3 (6Gbps) and offers a huge improvement over traditional hard drives
Close to frontrunning performance
High sequentialread speeds
Good encode times.
Outstanding 558/518 MBps read/write speed with ATTO
TCG OPAL security with 256bit AES encryption
SandForce SF2281 processor supports TRIM
SMART
And RAISE
DuraWrite technology extends NAND lifetime
Toplevel enthusiast operational I/O performance
3Year Patriot product warranty support
120/240GB highspeed SSD storage capacities
Lightweight compact storage solution
Resistant to ext
Outstanding performance
Reasonable pricing
SATA 6 Gbps support
Supports TRIM
3 year warranty
Nice looking
Rugged metal case
3.5" adapter included
Fastest 2.5-inch solid state drive we have tested
2.5-inch mounting bracket included
The editors didn't like
None
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The Patriot WildFire is expensive and takes a long time to be formatted. Its data transfer speed is comparatively slow
Slightly slower and more expensive than the competition.
As one of the most expensive 120GB SF-2200 SSDs on the market right now, the Patriot Wildfire did prove to be quite capable. Even with early release to full production changes which included halving the number of NAND flash chips, the Wildfire still m...
The Patriot WildFire is the second SF-2281 driven SSD we have tested to date, but it is the first to utilize 32nm MLC NAND memory. The reasoning behind the decision to utilize more expensive memory over the 25nm NAND seen in similar SandForce driven SS...
Abstract: We’ve opened our last few SSD round-ups with comments regarding the break-neck pace at which the solid state storage market has advanced these last few years. At the risk of repeating ourselves, the SSD market continues to show no signs of slowing down...
Patriot previously offered a fiveyear warranty, Expensive enthusiastlevel product
IMPORTANT: Although the rating and final score mentioned in this conclusion are made to be as objective as possible, please be advised that every author perceives these factors differently at various points in time. While we each do our best to ensure...
Solid state drives have only truly been commercially available for a few years and in the beginning the performance differences between those early drives were minimal. SSD's have come a long way in terms of performance, capacity and price drops and th...
Abstract: Let's start with the elephant in the room. There's a percentage of OCZ Vertex 3/Agility 3 customers that have a recurring stuttering/instability issue. The problem primarily manifests itself as regular BSODs under Windows 7 although OCZ tells me that the ...
The 120GB niche has certainly become crowded as of late but due to a myriad of reasons, innovation has been sorely lacking. Companies seem to be in rush to homogenize their lineups with that of their competitors in order to get their share of this lucr...
Incredibly fast, Sandforce 2281 controller, Delivers performance targets, 3 year warranty, Sata 6Gb/s interface, Included adapter bracket...
Pricing, Lower capacity...
Patriot has come to market with a drive that delivers excellent performance characteristics with its combination of Sandforce 2281 controller and 32nm MLC NAND in place of the 25nm delivered on the other 22XX-controlled comparison drives. In much of t...
Abstract: Along with the OCZ Vertex 3 Max IOPS, the Patriot Wildfire is one of this year’s super speed storage success stories. Some careful internal design from Patriot, along with some interesting component choices, means we’ve got a very, very fast SSD on...
