Patriot PS-100

Picked up a couple today - for specific uses.

Read speeds are fairly impressive - on large files 212MB/s solid, writes a bit dissapointing at ~40MB/s... but...

I got one to put Modern Warfare 2 on (created a link from the steam folder to the drive root) and stuck just the game on - works fantastic load times are 3x faster than my multi disc RAID5 (that manages 240MB/s min read and almost 400MB/s max on large files).

The other is in an ion mini ITX PC as an OS drive - the PC is intended for 24x7 quiet, low power operation sharing/backing up files from a bunch of attached eSATA/USB2 discs on the network - again it works a treat.

I seriously couldn't reccomend them as a desktop OS drive but for the price they work well in specific roles.
 
If the firmware update boosts the write speeds should be in business... but if it doesn't your not getting the full benefit of an SSD.
 
Still, being a student its still a nice increase....ish :-)

*Glances at that Kingston 512gb SSD while looking for when the next student loan arrives :p
 
If you use it for loading games, etc. is very good value for money. As an OS drive its going to be a bit hit and miss til they boost the write speeds.
 
These drives have problems and the firmware is not looking good...Loads of people have been sending them back due to the poor write speeds.
 
Are there any other problems except the poor write speeds?

Mine are working very well for the applications I use them for.
 
Any got a Random Access Time for this drive? As far as I'm concerned that's far more important than poor 4k reads/writes. Really tempted by the 64Gb version of this drive.

Also, anyone got any 'real life' benchies? Loading time of Crysis/Photoshop/Windows compared to traditional HD or another SSD?
 
Ease said:
Any got a Random Access Time for this drive? As far as I'm concerned that's far more important than poor 4k reads/writes. Really tempted by the 64Gb version of this drive.

Also, anyone got any 'real life' benchies? Loading time of Crysis/Photoshop/Windows compared to traditional HD or another SSD?
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Random access times are going to be correlated with random writes. Why else do you think random read/writes are so low?

But anyway,

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Wow that write access time is hideous...


Ease said:
Any got a Random Access Time for this drive? As far as I'm concerned that's far more important than poor 4k reads/writes. Really tempted by the 64Gb version of this drive.

Also, anyone got any 'real life' benchies? Loading time of Crysis/Photoshop/Windows compared to traditional HD or another SSD?
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I use one of mine purely to load Modern Warfare 2 from (hard link from the steam folder to the SSD root) and that worked well - atleast 3x faster load times with no pauses at all compared to my mechanical RAID5 (and thats not slow).

easyrider said:
SSD's shouldn't have poor write speeds imo.
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For my uses the slow write doesn't really matter one of mine is an OS drive in a low power system so performance isn't really an issue but being quiet and cool is - again a win for the price.

Until they sort the writes out tho I could not reccomend one for desktop OS booting tho.

Also notice theres some write issues with this drive - not sure if its caching or something... starts out at 195MB/s write and drops to 40-60MB/s.
 
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ghost101 said:
Random access times are going to be correlated with random writes. Why else do you think random read/writes are so low?
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I guessed the access times would be worse; wouldn't have asked if I thought they would be the same. I was just hoping for some figures to make the comparison easier. Definitely not worth it though, with random writes slower than traditional hard drives!
 
i use my partriot 32gb for a os drive swapped it out from my 74gb raptor drive, windows loads up much more faster now, ive updated to 2.08 which helped the speeds some what, but windows xp likes to randomly load every now and then and it makes my pc very slow to use sometimes, but loaing programs ect... its rapid. i though for £60 it was worth a gamble, but for what it is its worth the money, although i may buy a better bigger one soon and stick this one into a laptop
 
Are there any ETA on the firmware upgrade on these drives? Almost ordered until I saw this thread and then looked at other reviews.

Any particular reason why its significantly cheaper than other models?
 
Gangster said:
Are there any ETA on the firmware upgrade on these drives? Almost ordered until I saw this thread and then looked at other reviews.

Any particular reason why its significantly cheaper than other models?
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They have problems its well documented in the Patriot SSD forum
 
Ok, For those who have the Patroit ps-100 drives Inc myself I've sent patroit a email today and had a response back..

Dear xxxx

Thank you for your reply. Ok the issue you are running into is the
random read and write seek times, we have found that the PS-100 SSD has
abnormal lower performance and we are working on a firmware that is
addressing to the performance issues with the PS-100. Now the firmware
we are trying to get released by next week sometime it has been delayed
a bit due to bugs that were also found during this process and now it is
in the final burn in test phase.

Thank you for choosing Patriot Memory.



Best regards,

Valentine Lan

Technical Support Engineer

hopefully firmware will be shortly.

also what to come in the new firmware hopefully ....

Dear xxxxx,

The firmware also addresses TRIM, NCQ I believe so but I need to verify
just to make sure. The firmware is in final test of burn in so depending
on the results will allow us to release it.

Thank you for choosing Patriot Memory.



Best regards,

Valentine Lan
 
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