Comments Patriot Torqx Solid State Disk 128GB - Peripheral - review

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Beaky69

9:45 AM on 1 October, 2009

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Great review, with a clear & concise explanation of TRIM & wear-levelling issues. I just thought I'd mention that the second generation of Intel's X25-M 80Gb drives (which use the 34nm production process) are much cheaper than the first generation drives, at about £175 online.

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HarryButler

1:01 PM on 2 October, 2009

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I'm surprised to see the Torqx and the Vertex perform so differently when they're physically identical and even use the same firmware from Indilinx (albeit named differently, OCZ calls it v1.3, Patriot calls it v1571, but it's the same)- curious to know which firmware did you test the two drives with?

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gpurvis

5:52 AM on 13 October, 2009

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I'm currently running a Torqx 64GB on an Win7 with an I7 860. My measured HD Tune results are faster than the ones you report for the 128MB Torqx:

HD Tune: Patriot Torqx 64GB SSD Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 115.5 MB/sec

Transfer Rate Maximum : 220.6 MB/sec

Transfer Rate Average : 185.3 MB/sec

Access Time : 0.1 ms

Burst Rate : 195.1 MB/sec

CPU Usage : -1.0%

I did not wipe the drive first. It is my Win7 system drive. Disclosure: I do not work for Patriot Memory and I purchased the drive when I built a new 1156 socket system for Windows 7. I am running the latest Torqx firmware.

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MarkHaslam

7:04 PM on 7 February, 2010

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There's something very strange with your performance numbers.

Guruof3d tested the exact same drive and got read performance in Wintune of

213 MB/s Minimum

219 MB/S Maximum

218 MB/s Average

In HD Tach:

229 MB/s Read

This places it virtually identical to the OCZ Vertex, which you would expect with the same chips and the same controller.

Why are your numbers spuriously low? I think you should re-check them and post some qualification or disclaimer!

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