Patriot Pyro SE 120GB Solid State Drive Review

Setup & Testing Procedures
Technically this is a 128GB drive, but it is marketed as a 120GB drive as 8GB is used for provisioning, garbage collection and block collection.  Once you get the drive installed and formatted it comes out to about 111GB of usable space.

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Opening up CrystalDiskInfo we can see all of the information about the drive.  As you can see it supports S.M.A.R.T., NCQ and most importantly TRIM.

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For testing the drive we will be using the following benchmarking programs, we have provided links to each so you can run the benchmarks as well.

– HDTune Pro (download)
– Sandra Physical Disks Benchmark (download)
– ATTO Disk Benchmark (download)
– CrystalDiskMark 64bit (download)
– AS SSD Benchmark (download)
– Anvil Storage Utility Professional (download)

We also made these optimization changes…
– No power saving options in the BIOS
– ACHI enabled in the BIOS
– Windows 7 User Account Control (UAC) is disabled
– Windows 7 power saving settings are disabled

For comparison we will be testing the Mercury Extreme Pro 6G drive against these other solid state drives.

OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G (Review)
Kingston HyperX 240GB (Review)
Patriot Wildfire 120GB (Review)
Corsair Force GT 120GB (Review)
OCZ Agility 3 240GB (Review)
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB (Review)

Now let’s get to testing!

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