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Patriot Pyro 120GB SandForce SF-2281 SSD Review

Manufacturer: Patriot Memory
Product: PP120GS25SSDR
Date: Thu, Aug 04, 2011 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Joe Evans -
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Inside the Pyro

When we kick the tires, we also like to take a look under the hood to see what kind of hardware we're dealing with and it's no different with the Patriot Pyro SSD.

Patriot Pyro Apart

Four Allen screws are all it takes to split apart the shell and reveal the components within. No screws hold the PCB and it pulls away from the shell easily for us to have a closer look.

Patriot Pyro PCB

As usual, one side features a plethora of NAND neatly stacked towards the end of the board opposite of the SATA connectors. Absent are any markings on the PCB in terms of the Patriot name or logo.

Patriot Pyro NAND

A closer look shows the modules to be 25nm MLC flash of Micron manufacture. Each asynchronous modules are 64 Gb (8 GB) in density with eight modules on each side totaling 128 GB of on board storage.

Patriot Pyro PCB

On the flip side we have the remaining eight NAND modules as well as the controller. This is the standard configuration for most of the SandForce drives we've seen.

Patriot Pyro Controller

On the other side lies the remaining NAND modules along with the SandForce controller. As with all other SandForce based drives, there's no cache.

OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G CONTROLLER

The latest and greatest generation of consumer SandForce SF-2200 controllers sits proudly on the Pyro drive. Relying heavily on real-time data compression to reach peak performance, the controller emplys firmware that is generally customized by each manufacture which can account for variations in performance between each. It's proprietary DuraClass technology handles all of the mundane tasks like real-time compression, wear-leveling, error correction, among other things. It is also responsible for performance maintenance with features like idle garbage collection and TRIM. Overall, most of the drives we've seen with this controller exhibit performance relatively close to their peers of various manufacture. Let's where the Pyro falls in the pack.

Next Page - Comparison Drives & Test System


Review Index
Page 1 - Patriot Fires Things Up with Pyro
Page 2 - Inside the Pyro
Page 3 - Comparison Drives & Test System
Page 4 - ATTO & Iometer Synthetic Benchmarks
Page 5 - CrystalDiskMark and PCMark Vantage
Page 6 - AS-SSD Synthetic Benchmarks
Page 7 - Patriot Pyro 120GB - Real World Tests
Page 8 - Capacity, Final Thoughts & Conclusions