Patriot Torqx Solid State Disk 128GB Comments

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.

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?

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.