{"id":13102,"date":"2009-11-15T15:13:42","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T15:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?p=13102"},"modified":"2009-11-15T20:26:41","modified_gmt":"2009-11-15T20:26:41","slug":"patriot-torqx-m28-256-gb-ssd-unboxing-and-performance-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/patriot-torqx-m28-256-gb-ssd-unboxing-and-performance-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriot Torqx M28 256 GB SSD Unboxing and Performance Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n google_ad_client = \"pub-7021221536180758\"; \/* 468x60, created 11\/11\/09 *\/ google_ad_slot = \"1949837292\"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><script src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Normally, I wouldn\u2019t do this. But I have been so impressed with my first Solid State Disk (SSD), that I wanted to show it to you what a SSD can do if you are on the fence about buying a SSD. Although the prices on SSDs are very high at the moment, should you get a good bargain on one of the nearly 100GB models you should pick it up immediately. It will make a great boot drive and in the videos below you will find out why.<\/p>\n<p>We are testing the Patriot Torqx M28 256GB SSD. This SSD uses Multi-Level Cell (MLC) Flash and is based upon the SAMSUNG S3C29RBB01-YK40 controller. The controller is blessed with 128MB of cache to improve the performance and not repeat the mistakes of earlier JMicron based controller SSDs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/patriotmemory.com\/products\/groupdetailp.jsp?prodgroupid=141&amp;prodline=8&amp;group=Torqx%20M28%20Solid%20State%20Drives&amp;catid=21\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/patriotmemory.com\/products\/groupdetailp.jsp?prodgroupid=141&amp;prodline=8&amp;group=Torqx%20M28%20Solid%20State%20Drives&amp;catid=21', 'Product Page']);\" target=\"_blank\">Product Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind that we are only comparing single drive performance. Therefore, we are not testing HDDs in RAID mode.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s open the account with the unboxing.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nQrxkj2ZMtQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nQrxkj2ZMtQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s move on over to some real world comparisons and give you a preview of what to expect from this drive. Don\u2019t forget to check out the boot time comparison in the second part. The difference SSD makes is amazing.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/baaN7lSGGI8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/baaN7lSGGI8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/f-l0G7HO1PE&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/f-l0G7HO1PE&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned as we bring you the complete review in a few days with all the nitty gritty details of how the SSD technology works plus more benchmarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?p=13102\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=top title=\"Author: Karan\" src=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Patriot-Torqx-M28-SSD-Front.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2533,7814,6,7],"tags":[942,821,820,939,673,2685,611,795,1337,2684],"class_list":["post-13102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abt-news","category-articles","category-news","category-technology","tag-flash","tag-hard-disk-drive","tag-hdd","tag-mlc","tag-patriot","tag-solid-state-disk","tag-ssd","tag-storage","tag-torqx","tag-torqx-m28"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}