Patriot Wildfire 120GB

100% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

100% der Kundenmeinungen auf Amazon.de bewerten dieses Produkt positiv.

Fastest write ops yet ; Read performance almost as good ; Fair price ; Controller issues ironed out

Long-term use unclear

It's been a long time coming, but Patriot has finally released its own SandForce-based SSD, the performance-oriented Patriot Wildfire 120GB.

Close to front-running performance; high sequential-read speeds; good encode times

Slightly slower and more expensive than the competition

In high-queue-depth 4KB read and write tests in CrystalDiskMark and Iometer, the Wildfire can’t quite match OWC or OCZ’s drives, but it still tops all non-SandForce drives in Iometer with 71,000 IOPS. Premiere Pro encode times were in line with the...

The 2.5-inch laptop ; solid-state drive (SSD) comes with a drive-bay converter so it can also fit in a 3.5-inch (desktop) drive bay. It supports SATA 3 (6Gbps) and offers a huge improvement over traditional hard drives.

The Patriot WildFire is expensive and takes a long time to be formatted. Its data transfer speed is comparatively slow.

The Patriot WildFire offers significant performance gain on any computer at a premium cost.

Over the past few months we have taken a look at a number of high performance SSDs from the likes of Intel, Corsair, OCZ and more recently Samsung. Without doubt the most popular controller of this generation is based on Sandforce technology and this...

– Fastest 2.5-inch solid state drive we have tested ; – 2.5-inch mounting bracket included ; – 3 year warranty

– None that I found

Patriot has really proved once again that they can hang with the big boys when it comes to solid state drives. They did this with the Inferno drive and they have done it again with the Wildfire drive. It is not the single fastest 2.5-inch solid state...

class leading performance ; build quality and packaging is great ; 32nm Toshiba MLC NAND flash

Pricing is currently a little high

Kitguru says: It is around £70 more expensive than other 120gb Sandforce 2281 powered drives, which makes the slight performance increase difficult to justify.