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Patriot Inferno Reviews

Thinkcomputers

11/2010

10/10

Patriot Inferno 120GB Solid State Drive Review

We just started working with Patriot with our review of the Xporter XT Rage 32B Flash Drive. Well today we have another storage product from them, the Inferno 120GB Solid State Drive. This solid state drive is based off the SandForce SF-1200 controller. If you have been following solid state drives over the past year you know that the SandForce controller is what everyone is using in their new drives. This drive boasts read speeds up to 285MB/s, write speeds up to 275MB/s, native TRIM support and integrated DuraClass Technology. Let’s check out the Inferno and see how it performs compared to other SandForce-based drives. The Inferno comes in a nice retail package, larger than most solid state drives. There is an opening in the front of the package that let’s you take a look at the drive. On the back there is a list of features. Opening the package up there are 2 clam-shelll cases. One has the solid state drive in it the other has a mounting bracket and mounting screws. I really like that Patriot included the bracket, many cases don’t have 2.5-inch mounting brackets.

OverclockersClub

10/2010

Patriot Inferno 120GGB SSD Review

Since the SandForce SSD controller was introduced there has been a rush of drives on the market taking advantage of the increased speeds that the chip offers. The first round of drives released had a huge chunk of the storage area used for provisioning which hurt capacities, but manufacturers and SandForce have worked on the issue with new provisioning and tweaked firmware. With the tweaks and additions of new firmware, comes new and improved drives. The SandForce controller boasts read speeds of up to 285MB/s and read speeds of up to 275MB/s. The SandForce controller supports all of the latest technology including TRIM and has integrated DuraClass Technology. The Inferno drives have been out for some time with SandForce controllers, but with new firmware the provisioning was lessened to only 8GB instead of the original 28GB. This give a higher capacity to the series and a better cost per gigabyte ratio. The capacities of SSD drive are still at a premium though, so there is a trade off between capacity and speed which make these great for OS installs but not for mass storage. With the 120GB version you are looking at about a price of $2.42 per gigabyte which is high in storage terms, but when speed is a concern it is right on the money.

HotHardware

10/2010

Patriot Inferno 120GB SandForce-Based SSD

For a time, Intel's X25 series of solid state drives stood head and shoulders above the rest of the SSD pack. But with the influx of new players along with the rapid pace of innovation in the SSD space, Intel's aging offerings—while still very good—are no longer a cut above. In fact, in enthusiast circles, it's drives based on upstart SandForce's controllers that currently garner the lion's share of interest. And you don't have to take our word for it. Just take a look at SandForce's current list of partners; it reads like a list of” who's who” in the memory market with names like OCZ, Corsair, Mushkin, G.SKILL, and Patriot, among others. It's a Patriot drive that we have on tap for you today. Patriot has employed SSD controllers from a number of manufactures including JMicron and Indilinx in a few of their product lines, but in the newest Inferno series of SSDs, Patriot went with SandForce's SF-1200 series controller. The specifications for the Patriot Inferno 120GB drive we'll be testing here are listed in the table below. If you're familiar with other enthusiast-class SandForce based offerings, many of the features and specifications should come as no surprise. Check them out below and then read-on for the full scoop.

DigitalVersus

08/2010

10/10

Reviews: Internal Hard Drives

With the Inferno, Patriot have come up with an SSD built around the well-reputed SandForce SF-1222 controller. Will it offer the same level of performance as those of the excellent OCZ Vertex 2 or Mach Xtreme Technology MX-DS which use the same controller? Remember that the particularity of this SandForce controller is to use storage memory as cache memory when reading/writing to the disk. This is why many SSDs based on the SF-1222 offer reduced capacities (100 GB instead of 120 GB, 200 GB instead of 240 GB.). This has been corrected in SandForce's new firmware, which now allows manufacturers to offer drives with the same storage capacities as the competition. Sometimes, simply updating the drive will increase its capacity. Other times, as would seem to be the case with the Patriot, the drive is on sale in two different versions. The Inferno is available in different capacities: 60 GB, 100 GB, 120 GB, 200 GB and 240 GB. We have tested the 100 GB version, the precise reference of which is PI100GS25SSD: Note straight off that, in contrast to the trend with some manufacturers, here there's no USB port to retrieve data from an old drive.

TechRadar

07/2010

9.0/10

Patriot Inferno 100GB review

Red hot performance from the latest solid state storage technology. That's Patriot's plan with its new Inferno 100GB SSD. Just in case you haven't got the message, Patriot has dressed the Inferno in funky, bright red anodised threads.Of course, it's what inside that really matters. Like a lot of the latest high performance drives, including the Corsair Force F100 and OCZ Vertex 2 [link to reviews], the Patriot Inferno 100GB is powered by the Sandforce SF-1200 series. It's currently the hottest SSD controller chip in town.So, it's no surprise to find Patriot claiming similar performance numbers. Like the Corsair and OCZ drives, the Inferno 100GB is rated at 285MB/s and 275MB/s for sequential reads and writes. At around £285, it's similarly priced to the OCZ, too, and even uses essentially the same Intel-sourced MLC Flash memory. Despite the similarities, there are a few differences in the way various manufacturers put their SSD packages together. The Inferno 100GB's five-year warranty is certainly worth bearing in mind. The SSD market is rather incestuous with a number of manufacturers choosing similar off-the-shelf components, most notably the Sandforce SF-1200 controller. We've therefore lined the Patriot Inferno 100GB up against two of its closest Sandforce-powered rivals, the Corsair Force F100 100GB and OCZ Vertex 2 100GB.

Prices

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Patriot Pi60gs25ssdr Inferno 2.5 60gb Sata Ii Ssd Sandforce Driven Trim Retail	$99.99	See it
Patriot Inferno 60 GB SATA II 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive (SSD) with TRIM Support PI60GS25SSDR	$99.99	See it
Patriot Memory PI60GS25SSDR 60 GB Internal Solid State Drive - 2.5 - SATA/300	$106.99	See it
Patriot Memory Patriot 64GB Inferno SSD Drive 2.5 SATA	$117.94	See it
Patriot Memory Patriot Memory Patriot 64GB Inferno SSD Drive 2.5 SATA	$117.94	See it
Patriot Inferno 60 GB SATA II 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive (SSD) with TRIM Support PI60GS25SSDR	$141.99	See it
Patriot Inferno 100gb Ssd 2.5" Pi100gs25ssdr	$309.95	See it
Patriot Inferno 100 GB SATA II 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive (SSD) with TRIM support PI100GS25SSDR	$342.69	See it
Patriot Inferno 200 GB SATA II 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive (SSD) with TRIM support PI200GS25SSDR	$721.99	See it