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Patriot Memory TorqX 128GB Solid State Drive Reviews

Patrick "MACMAC" MacMillan

2009-07-15 09:00:00.0


Futurelooks and Guru3D have posted reviews of the Patriot Memory TorqX 128GB solid state drive.

Let's see what they had to say:

  • Futurelooks:

    "When it’s all said and done, the Patriot Memory 128GB TorqX SSD is mobile and agile in every respect. Despite its capacity, it’s the fastest SSD tested on the test bench to date. In fact, the SSD offers excellent performance handling small 4K-32K data blocks and even greater performance working with the larger data blocks. This is great news as it shows Patriot is on top their TorqX product. This should please users who are serious about managing data base queries to gamers that want to install and load up their games super fast (though it won’t do anything for frame rates).

    The Patriot Memory TorqX truly does offer some “Insta-RAID” goodness right out of the box without the weight or size of platter based solutions. At a street price of around $360 US for the 128GB TorqX, it is priced well within the pack and provides better than the norm performance. Factor that in with a impressive 10 Year Warranty and we find ourselves unable to offer it anything but an Editors’ Choice Award. You have got to get one of these!"


    Click here to read the full review.


  • Guru3D:

    "The Patriot Torqx series SSD drives are incredible, really really incredible. Now we've see products like these before, I mean OCZ's Vertex is based on the same Indilinx controller, and the G.Skill Falcon we recently tested is up-to the PCB and component precisely the same as this little gem we tested today. More of the same is good, as that creates competition and will drive prices down.

    The performance we retrieve from the SSD is far-fetched really. Armed with the latest controller firmware we really see some true magic happen. Read speeds of up to ~230 are certainly not uncommon, and write performance (although you can measure that in many ways) was just as stunning closing in at 190~200MB/sec."


    Click here to read the full review.

This is a quality solid state drive that is easily among the fastest consumer models on the market, and when you consider it's 10 year warranty, the $360 price tag becomes much easier to swallow.

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