Patriot Warp series Solid State Drive (SSD) is the latest in storage technology. Using the state-of-the-art NAND flash chips and ultra-fast controllers, the Warp SSD Drive is available from 32GB to 250GB capacity delivering a blazing transfer speed up to 175MB/s read and 100 MB/s write. Compare to conventional disk Drives, built with 100% moving-free parts and housed in a vibration and shock resistance housing, the Warp SSD Drives provide a rock solid operating environment even during extreme working conditions, a perfect solution for a wide range of applications that require ruggedness, minimal power consumption, cooler temperature and silent operations. With reliability in mind, the Warp SSD Drives has 1.5 million hour mean time before failure (MTBF) and built in wear leveling technology in addition to the standard 2 year warranty to maximize the life span of the Drive and preserve your data integrity by automatic mark and block bad data cells. IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: Please DO NOT defragment Solid State Drive as it may shorten the life span of the product. Drive capacity may reflect some discrepancy limit to data reservation for wear leveling (built in error checking) and operating systems. Rated transfer speed may reflect differently from system specification, benchmark, Drivers, and operating systems. Interface: SATA I/II; Rapid support: 0, 1, 0+1; Dimensions: 99.88 x 69.63x 9.3 mm; Weight: 91g; Sequential Read: up to 175MB/s; Sequential Write: up to 100MB/s; Shock Resistant: 1500G/0.5ms; Vibration Resistant: 20G/20~2000Hz with 3 Axis; Operating Voltage: DC 5V; Power Consumption: 280mA~330mA; Operating Temperature: -10ºC~70ºC; Storage Temperature: -55ºC~125ºC; MTBF: >1,500,000 Hours; Data Retention: > 5 years at 25ºC; Data Reliability: Built in 15-bit ECC; O/S Support: 2000/XP/Vista, Linux and MAC OSX; Certification: FCC/CE/RoHS.
Sequential Read: up to 175MB/s, Sequential Write: 100MB/s
Excellent Upgrade for slower laptops
Review Date: April 5, 2009
Reviewer: brenster, Hawaii
I thought they would be faster but... If you want to revive an old (or new!) Laptop... put one of these in! I have upgraded about 10 laptops using the Patriot 32GB and i am amazed every time. I have also used the Transcend IDE 8GB SSD (XP only for space reasons) on some of the older laptops and I highly recommend using these as well.
Pretty Good!
Review Date: January 7, 2009
Reviewer: Bruno Barros, NJ, USA
Have this thing running as my C drive with windows installed on it. Gets a bit laggy when I'm doing way too many things at once but other than that this drive is amazing. Extremely fast, windows boots up very quickly and normal tasks run faster. Might be getting a second one to RAID with the one I have now, soon. Maybe that will get rid of that lag.
Good boot disk
Review Date: April 19, 2009
Reviewer: A. Batie, Portland, OR
The random write performance on these is abyssmal, do don't think of using it for a general purpose disk replacement, but I'm using several of them as boot disks on systems with software raid (which doesn't work so well on the boot drive), and they are fine for that purpose, and an extremely good value.
FIne
Review Date: October 5, 2009
Reviewer: Razz, Arizona
You probably want a bigger drive than this. I only was able to fit Snow Leopard on it, and my apps, but have to keep a secon d drive for all my photos, videos and music.
The first one I got was DOA and had to be returned.
This does not support TRIM, so you will want to wait for that and for SSDs to get better and cheaper in general.
In my benchmarks, this SSD is actually only slightly faster than my WD Scorpio Black 320gb 7200rpm, which is only slightly faster than my Seagate 500gb 5200rpm. keep in mind these are all 2.5in laptop drives, so the whole bit-density thing makes the Seagate similar in speed to the Scorpio Black, despite decreased spindle speed.
That said, this drive makes a VERY NOTICEABLE difference between running my OS off any of these drives. All my apps load in 0-3 seconds, these is never any slow down or stutter. I have thoroughly enjoyed having this drive, and regret not being able to afford a larger one, but it fulfills its purpose: giving me a lightening quick OS and Apps.