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Today we are checking out a new Patriot SSD (Solid-State Drive) that goes by the name PS-100. This new product is designed to provide users with a cost effective SSD using a Phison controller. Already the Patriot PS-100 is one of the cheapest SSDs money can buy and we are going to find out if you should pull the trigger on this new product... Just recently we checked out the new G.Skill Falcon II series, which featured an updated version of the Indilinx 'Barefoot' controller which provided support for 34nm flash memory. This new SSD provided an excellent price vs. performance ratio and we found the Falcon II to be a better value option than the OCZ Agility.  Although it appears that the Falcon II is still yet to go on sale, we did estimate that pricing would start at around $360 - $370 US for the 128GB version. As it stood at the time there was just one other relatively new SSD in that price range, which came from Patriot. Available at $360 US for the 128GB version, the Patriot PS-100 is a bit of a wild card, and at the time we did not know which controller this particular SSD was using. Many users have been getting excited about the prospect of throwing two 32GB Patriot PS-100 SSDs in RAID0 given that they cost just $95 US each. Such a setup would cost less than $200 US and although users would be limited to a capacity of just 64GB’s with sequential read/write performance of 210/150MB/s for a single drive, this did seem like the ultimate bargain. However, as we are very well aware, sequential read/write performance is virtually meaningless and manufacturers simply quote those numbers for marketing purposes. Therefore we really wanted to see how the Patriot PS-100 performs and if it is worth getting excited about, as many already seem to be. Still, it is worth keeping in mind that for $140 US the Intel X25-V, which claims sequential read/write performance of 170/35MB/s, costs around 47% more. Furthermore, the OCZ Vertex and Agility 30GB SSDs cost around $160 US, making them considerably more expensive. With that in mind, let’s move on to check the new Patriot PS-100 out in more detail... |
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