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Patriot Wildfire 120GB 6Gb/s Solid-State Drive Review

Patriot Wildfire 120GB 6Gb/s Solid-State Drive Review

Patriot is getting in to the SATA 6Gb/s game with the other big players in the solid state market with their Wildfire and Pyro solid state drives.  Last year we were very impressed with the Inferno solid state drive from Patriot.  Today we are taking look at Patriot’s Wildfire drive which sports the SandForce SF-2281 drive controller with Toshiba 32nm MLC NAND.  It boast sequential read and write speeds of 555MB/s and 520MB/s respectively and max random write IOPS up to 85,000 (4K aligned).  Let’s see how it performs against other 6Gb/s drives we have recently tested.

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OCZ Vertex 3 240GB Solid State Drive Review

OCZ Vertex 3 240GB Solid State Drive Review

Only a little while ago we visited OCZ at CES and they showed us some of their upcoming solid state drives.  These new drives feature the SandForce SF-2200 controller and boast blistering fast speeds.  OCZ has been at the forefront of SSD technology and this year they are going to be releasing a ton of new drives.  One of the first drives based on the new SandForce SF-2200 controller is the Vertex 3.  This drive has a max read of 550MB/s and max write of 525MB/s!  Those are some of the fastest advertised speeds we have seen in a consumer drive!  OCZ was nice enough to send us an engineering sample version of the drive with BETA firmware on it, so let’s take a look!

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