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Another SF-2281 powered SSD comes out with Patriot’s Pyro. Like other SATA III 6 Gbps drives, this one promises blazing speeds reaching 500 Patriot Pyro SSDMB+. Pyro utilizes value driven asynchronous NAND memory as compared to the other Patriot SATA III, Wildfire, which uses synchronous NAND. There is no denying that sync NAND SSDs are faster than async ones but the latter is more conveniently priced.

The Pyro comes out with three capacities: 60, 120, and 240 GB. The 60 GB variant has read and write speeds of 520 MB/s and 490 MB/s with an IOPS of 80,000 at 4k write aligned disk access. Both the 120 and 240 GB variants offer read and write speeds of 550 MB/s and 515 MB/s and boast an IOPS of 85,000.

SandForce’s DuraClass technology is again present in this product along with native TRIM support and Native Command Queuing (NCQ) with 32 commands. The drive is composed of sixteen 25 nm MLC flash chips which effectively brings down the total cost of the drive. A 120 GB variant has a total RAW capacity of 128 GB but the available storage capacity is only 112 GB.

The Pyro is a cheaper SATA III drive and the speed difference is hardly noticed except when transferring very large files regularly.

Specifications:

  • Sequential Read: Up to 550 MB/second
  • Sequential Write: Up to 515 MB/second
  • NAND type: MLC
  • Interface: SATA 3 6GBps
  • Controller: SandForce SF-2281
  • Form Factor: 2.5 inches
  • DRAM Cache: None
  • Power Consumption (Active): 2W
  • Power Consumption (Idle): 0.5W
  • TRIM support: Yes
  • SMART support: Yes
  • Warranty: 3 years
  • MTBF: 2,000,000 hours

Part Numbers:

  • 60GB: PP60GS25SSDR
  • 120GB: PP120GS25SSDR
  • 240GB: PP240GS25SSDR

Reviews:

thessdreview:

Congratulations to Patriot for having the foresight to push the Pyro through production as it will prove to be a wise move indeed.  The Patriot Pyro has the advantages of being one of the first to offer a low 60GB solution containing the SandForce SF-2281 SATA 3 processor and we guarantee that Patriot will remain very competitive as the companies history has shown.

neoseeker:

The success of the Patriot Pyro is ultimately going to come down to the price, and at just over $200 we think it is priced to sell. Less than a year ago, SATA 3Gb/s drives were selling for well over $200, so the fact the we can now get drives that are pushing transfer rates at the upper end of the SATA 6Gb/s interface is impressive to say the least.

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