Patriot Torqx M28 256GB SSD Review
Conclusion
Money no object, if I were to recommend one upgrade in any system, it will most definitely be a SSD. Offering nearly double the performance over the fastest hard drive I have ever tested speaks volumes about the performance that a SSD delivers. Even a new GPU or CPU generation doesn’t always deliver double the performance of the last generation.
From here on, having the fastest system means having an SSD in there running the operating system in addition to other top end CPUs and GPUs and other hardware. Not only will the SSD make your system more responsive over a HDD, it will also give you bragging rights of having something that many others don’t. Which leads me to one of the problems with SSDs. With the current high cost of SSDs, they fill a niche in the consumer market. Not everyone will be itching to shell out nearly $700 for a 256 GB drive when you can acquire a 1 TB HDD for nearly $75-90 these days. However if you can scrounge up enough money to buy a SSD to load your OS, you will not regret the decision. With a limited budget, you should own a small SSD for your OS drive and HDD for storage purposes.
Then, there is the problem of losing performance when the SSD gets used. Not all SSDs and OSes out there support the TRIM command. But we are hearing good news in regards to TRIM support, with more and more manufacturers releasing TRIM supporting firmware. I expect SSDs shipping in the future to ship with a TRIM supporting firmware. On the OS side, good news is that Windows 7 supports this feature. This should relieve the user from the worries of losing performance on a SSD if they are running a SSD that supports TRIM on Windows 7.
For those of you, who might not have looked over the test results on previous page and only wanted to read the conclusion watch the video below to see the tests in action and why I so highly recommend a SSD.
A TRIM supporting firmware has now been released for this drive and can be downloaded from here http://www.patriotmem.com/support/firmwarep.jsp
Patriot Torqx M28 256GB SSD
Pros
- Industry leading 10 year warranty
- 128 MB of cache
- Fast speeds
- TRIM support
Cons
- Price ($745 at the time of the writing of this article)
In the end I can only think of two awards that do justice to this product.
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When comparing stats, such as the “File Benchmark test”, it would be helpful to maintain the same vertical scale across the four configurations. It is impossible to compare like this, particularly at the chart sizes used.
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