Did I just get lucky picking a good brand or do these drives have a good reputation? I kinda went into Fry's blindly without researching much and feeling the need for instant gratification.
I am not sure what model or specs are on this drive, there was little to no packaging. They did have the older model, the Warp I think for $100 less.
That is a good SSD. Very good sequential read/write speeds. By looking at the review by the previous poster the random read/write speeds were decent at around what it looked like 4mb/s write and I think 10mb/s read. That is good.
One thing to note about that review there is it had somewhat odd competition. There was no intel or OCZ drive in there to compare it with.
For reference purposes these are the comparisons for the Patriot vs the intel X25-M. (The Extreme (E) series is roughly the same, with better write performance).
IOPS (I/O per sec): Patriot = 11000+ | Intel = 33000+
Sequential Write Speeds: Patriot = 212mb/s | Intel = 70mb/s
Sequential Read Speeds: Patriot = 219mb/s | Intel = 250mb/s
Random Write Speeds: Patriot = 4+mb/s | Intel = 30+mb/s
Random Read Speeds: Patriot = 10+mb/s | Intel =56+mb/s
To put this in perspective the OCZ vertex got around 2mb/s random write and 5-8mb/s random read (I think that was right, someone correct me if wrong). The patriot blows that away, and random write/read is VERY important, more so than sequential in most cases.
IMHO that is a very good drive you got. At a massive size of 256GB and having that kind of performance is real good for a SSD. Better than the vertex from what I'm seeing. It doesn't quite compete with the Intel X25 drives in terms of random read/write or sequential read, but keep in mind the intel drives have much smaller capacity and cost alot more (32GB - 160GB) ($400 - $900).
Congrats
