Patriot PS-100

carrot1401 · 20 Jan 2010 at 23:53

Patriot PS-100 32GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive

Who dares takes the dive first? Really interested in getting one, just heard lots about bad things about JMicron controller drives, and from what I understand this is also one of them with that controller. Just wondering if anyone has already got one or no anything more about it?

shadowscotland · 21 Jan 2010 at 00:08

it uses the Phison controller - a new kid to the block
Simular to the old samsung controller - no stutter / good read / avg writes / poor 4K
ideal for atom system - there is one review out there atm

manoz · 21 Jan 2010 at 01:43

Would this be good for a boot drive? Solely for xp and a few graphic applications and the odd game?

Zarf · 21 Jan 2010 at 02:09

manoz said:
Would this be good for a boot drive? Solely for xp and a few graphic applications and the odd game?

It'll be great, the 4k scores arn't at the level of other SSD's, but still better than a Velociraptor.

Looks to be a good buy, though you may want to keep an eye out for the upcoming kingston 30GB ssd's that have TRIM support and should be a similar price (or lower)

Hopefully some more comprehensive reviews will be done on the Phison controller and we can get a feeling for how much it degrades over time.

weird_dave · 21 Jan 2010 at 09:56

£ per GB, the X25-V is better value and supports TRIM (don't think the patriot do yet), having said that, I still can't decide, and they're all too expensive

carrot1401 · 21 Jan 2010 at 11:50

So do these not have this TRIM support? May hang around for the Kingston ones, just wondered if anyone had decided not to wait and get this one

weird_dave · 21 Jan 2010 at 12:56

As far as I can google, no TRIM. Mixed results on speed too.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?sour...lz=1T4GGIE_enGB290GB290&q=patriot+ps-100+trim

Should be the last result.... (don't want to risk posting a direct link)

manoz · 21 Jan 2010 at 20:53

Zarf said:
It'll be great, the 4k scores arn't at the level of other SSD's, but still better than a Velociraptor.

Looks to be a good buy, though you may want to keep an eye out for the upcoming kingston 30GB ssd's that have TRIM support and should be a similar price (or lower)

Hopefully some more comprehensive reviews will be done on the Phison controller and we can get a feeling for how much it degrades over time.

Wll I'm looking for something better then an old 80gb Hitachi Deskstar and something waaay quieter. These Kingstons sound good, do you have a model number for these drives?

Zarf · 22 Jan 2010 at 02:21

manoz said:
Wll I'm looking for something better then an old 80gb Hitachi Deskstar and something waaay quieter. These Kingstons sound good, do you have a model number for these drives?

Not yet, they were announced at CES but i'm yet to see them on the market.

Leezy · 22 Jan 2010 at 11:40

All the customer reviews on a certain site say these are awful..
some say they are getting 40mbps in Raid 0 and to avoid them,
Patriot are saying new firmware to come.

macca672 · 22 Jan 2010 at 11:56

Leezy said:
40Gb/ps

sounds good to me

weird_dave · 22 Jan 2010 at 12:48

Just seen these elsewhere for just under £59 !!

40Gb/ps would be amazing! I'd need a better CPU to make the most of it tho, and how do you do that with SATA?

no_1_dave · 22 Jan 2010 at 20:14

The new firmware supports trim

weird_dave · 23 Jan 2010 at 09:59

I can't find it on the patriot site.

razer1978 · 23 Jan 2010 at 21:21

i've taken the plunge as i've been waiting for ssd's to come down to a reasonable price just hope i don't regret it, hopefully the new fw improves things, will report back when it turns up

vail3r · 23 Jan 2010 at 23:14

Just bought one of these, very cheap but crappy performance. However there should be a firmware update soon:

It should appear on here when its out: http://www.patriotmemory.com/support/firmwarep.jsp

razer1978 · 24 Jan 2010 at 01:49

would it be better to wait till the firmware comes out before using it as i plan on using it as my os drive?

weird_dave · 24 Jan 2010 at 14:00

That link is much appreciated vail3r, ta

I'm trying to wait for new firmware just in case it never happens, but my fingers are getting itchy....
Might be easier just to get the 60GB vertex while the promo is on.....

RobK · 25 Jan 2010 at 11:31

I've been thinking of getting one of these to put in my HTPC box purely because they are silent. Everything gets streamed from a server in the loft so the size doesn't matter too much.

When you say performance is crappy, do you mean compared to other SSDs or is it really bad? I'm currently using an old Maxtor 300GB which is pretty slow anyway. Would it be any worse than that?

Zarf · 25 Jan 2010 at 14:07

RobK said:
I've been thinking of getting one of these to put in my HTPC box purely because they are silent. Everything gets streamed from a server in the loft so the size doesn't matter too much.

When you say performance is crappy, do you mean compared to other SSDs or is it really bad? I'm currently using an old Maxtor 300GB which is pretty slow anyway. Would it be any worse than that?

When the new firmware is out (early feb) the performance issues should be fixed. Not everyone seems to suffer from them anyway and benchmarks i've seen from when it's working are good.
If you do suffer the write speeds are pretty terrible, you only really need read on an HTPC though.