Patriot Wildfire 120GB

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

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.

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.

Best in class performance which comes close to 240GB models in many tests ; Doesn't use the same cloned design as everyone else seems to be using ; Toggle Mode 1.0 NAND ; Includes 2.5” to 3.5” adapter ; Increased write endurance compared to 25nm NAND...

While lessened thanks to its NAND type, performance will still vary based on data type ; Slight reduction in sequential read speed compared to other 120GB drives

The 120GB niche has certainly become crowded as of late but due to a myriad of reasons, innovation has been sorely lacking. Companies seem

These ultra-fast drives come at a cost premium, so if you’re cautious about spending £2/GB for a Wildfire to revive your aging PC, perhaps you’re better suited to something a little more tame. However, if you've got the cash to burn, the Wildfire would...

It’s tough for SSD partners to differentiate their products from those of their rivals. Apart from the branding and shiny casing, each SandForce SF-2281 drive is going to be inherently similar. The job is nowhere near as straightforward as making a...

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...