Patriot Memory Pyro 120GB 2.5” SATA III SSD Drive Review

Storage/SSD by stefan @ 2012-03-05

The Patriot Memory Pyro 120GB SSD features Micron 25nm asynchronous NAND flash memory and a SandForce SF-2281 controller; while it does not succeed to beat other drives with the same SandForce processor, it is still an option to take into account, considering its competitive price.

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Test Setup and Test Results Part I

Test Bench:

CPU : Intel I5 2500K Retail @ 4.8GHz , 1.3V

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U12P

Motherboard : ASRock P67 Extreme6

RAM : G.Skill Ripjaws F3-12800CL8D-4GBRM

Video : Sparkle X460 Calibre 1GB

Power Supply : Cooler Master 850W

HDD : Seagate Barracuda 320GB 7200.10

Case: Cooler Master ATCS 840

 

The 120GB Patriot Memory Pyro SSD is unformatted out of the box:

 

After the SSD has been formated NTFS, here is the total free space as reported by Windows 7:

 

With the help of AIDA64, we can extract more information regarding the drive:

 

 

 

The Tests

 

HDTach Short Test

 

HDTach Long Test

 

 

CrystalMark HDD Test Suite

AIDA64 Disk Test Suite

PCMark05 HDD Test Suite

 

 

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