The new SSD Thread (Benchmarks, Brands, News and Advice)

[lololol]

can u confirm its v2?

v1: http://www.patriotmem.com/products/specs/64GB%20SDD.jpg
v2: http://www.patriotmem.com/products/s...0SDD_300px.jpg

I got mine from NCIX too, and it looks like exactly like the V1.
And the drive blows, even slower than my 5400.3
Need to talk to them as the site showed the v2 and the spec was 175r/100w, but inside the box, the thing says 130r/80w, which obviously is the v1

[John Kotches]

I ordered a 32GB Patriot to load into my HTPC. All of my "big" storage is on a NAS array and what I'm running easily fits into the footprint of a 32GB drive.

[michelkenny]

can u confirm its v2?

v1: http://www.patriotmem.com/products/specs/64GB%20SDD.jpg
v2: http://www.patriotmem.com/products/s...0SDD_300px.jpg

Mine is definitely a V2. It says "V2" instead of the MS Windows logo on the V1. I got mine from NCIX.

By the way, I'm running Vista with some components removed using vLite.

[jedisolo]

I ran Hdtune on my Ridata 128 gb ssd in my Thinkpad T400. I ran hdtune on my SuperTalent 120 Gb ssd.

[michelkenny]

More HD Tune benchmarks on my Patriod 32gb SSD V2 vs. Seagate Momentus 7200.2, 256kb block size.

[MexicanSnake]

More HD Tune benchmarks on my Patriod 32gb SSD V2 vs. Seagate Momentus 7200.2, 256kb block size.

Those numbers from the patriot drive are hard to believe... I tought it was a better performer.

You know what? I guess that these drives are meant for slave drives or a secondary storage. Like a drive for running heavy stuff or videogames...

[highlandsun]

Any stuttering or hickups with your OCZ Core?

Yes. I've managed to mask most of it by tuning my Linux cache parameters, but if you get an app that insists on flushing/syncing its writes instead of letting them be cached, the app will visibly hang/stutter. But most of the programs I've used don't use synchronous writes, so most of the time there's no visible problem.

The more worrying problem is that on two occasions, when I rebooted my laptop, the drive disappeared. The BIOS says "no hard drive found.". Powering off and on again has cleared it up each time. I'm still using the drive, but it definitely has me worried...

[ABasketOfPups]

I've just gotten a Patriot 64Gig SSD, V.2, and I'm seeing different numbers under HD Tune, about 30 meg/second higher (though still not hitting the 175 meg/second Patriot claims). I'll try to post the picture later: I had to run back to work.

One last thing: when I first tried it in my E-SATA dock, it was defaulting to SATA-I and I was getting number similar to Michael Kenny's w/whatever is the default in HD Tune for blocksize. (I'll check that as well...) When I put it in my machine, on the Nvidia SATA connectors, I got higher numbers and SATA-II (and my CPU usage went from around 50% to around 10%).

[michelkenny]

I've just gotten a Patriot 64Gig SSD, V.2, and I'm seeing different numbers under HD Tune, about 30 meg/second higher (though still not hitting the 175 meg/second Patriot claims). I'll try to post the picture later: I had to run back to work.

One last thing: when I first tried it in my E-SATA dock, it was defaulting to SATA-I and I was getting number similar to Michael Kenny's w/whatever is the default in HD Tune for blocksize. (I'll check that as well...) When I put it in my machine, on the Nvidia SATA connectors, I got higher numbers and SATA-II (and my CPU usage went from around 50% to around 10%).

I was running this drive plugged in directly to my laptop, no enclosure or anything. It's possible maybe that the laptop is SATA-1 only, but I thought it supported SATA-2 (it's a Lenovo T61 with ICH8M controller). I posted a message on the www.ncix.com forums and posted my screenshots. Someone from Patriot replied saying that the drive was probably bad and that I should exchange it. I probably will get a refund and wait a while still since I don't want any issues with the replacement one.

[ABasketOfPups]

First: peak 162 meg/sec, ave. 152 meg/sec at 256K block in HD Tune. OK, now some pictures, and some comments.

The one ending in "64GB SSD" (Max transfer 105.0) is connected via ESATA dock, to a Silicon Image SiI 3132 SATALink controller, on the motherboard of an ASUS A8N32 SLI. After running the test, I checked and the properties for the controller said "write caching off" and also specified that it was running at SATA-I rates.

The picture ending with "64GBInternal" (Max transfer 138.4) was the same drive, placed into the box and so connected to the NVidia nForce4 Serial ATA RAID Controller, again on the motherboard. This time write caching was definitely on in properties, and the interface was running at SATA-II rates.

However, both the above tests were done with HDTune 2.55 running the default 64K blocks. So I set the block size to 256K for the last one, "64GB-Int-256KBlocks" (which I named so incredibly originally) (Max transfer 162.6). This is still internal/nVidia, just the block size has changed.

Despite the temperature shown on the graphics, at no time did the Patriot actually suck heat from the surrounding surfaces in a violation of the laws of thermodynamics.

Lastly, I ran Atto on it, and the screenshot is attached. This is when it was internal.