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Patriot Pyro SE Series SATA600

Based on 14 reviews

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Good:

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Average:

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Bad:

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Pros

Great performance.
Competitive Price.
3 year warranty.
Potential for 85K IOPS.
Synchronous NAND.
Available in 60GB, 120GB and 240GB capacities.
SandForce SF2281 processor with DuraClass, DuraWrite and RAISE technologies.
SATA 6Gb/s interface.
Supports TRIM, SMART and NCQ.
Outstanding 558/528 MBps read/write speed with ATTO.
TCG OPAL security with 256bit AES encryption.

Cons

Weird naming scheme.
Competition has cheaper models with very similar performance.
Does not include a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter bracket.
Not as fast when writing incompressible data.
Patriot previously offered a five year warranty.
No bundled software.

By Bright Side of News on July 31, 2012

With each drive averaging in cost at around $300, these drives are definitely not cheap. But when you consider that the next best alternative to having 480GB of SSD space costs on average $500, you really have to weigh what is important to you. You...

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By VR-Zone on May 17, 2012

Patriot Memory is one of the leading US based RAM and SSD manufacturers. Today we are going to have a look at their fastest consumer SSD drive, the Pyro SE. The Pyro SE 120GB drive is a Sandforce SF-2281 based SSD, boasting speeds up to 550MB/s read...

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By Hardware Canucks on April 25, 2012

With the release of the Pyro SE, Patriot has indeed been able to plug a rather large hole in their existing line up by offering consumers a solution which is neither overly expensive nor underpowered. This is all thanks to its use of ONFi 2 NAND,...

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By FutureLooks on April 16, 2012

The top end Wildfire is still the fastest SSD that Patriot offers but it carries a rather lofty price tag to match. Ultimately, the goal of the Pyro SE seems to be aimed at offering enthusiasts a high performance option without the high end price tag....

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By X-bit Labs on March 15, 2012

Patriot has slightly delayed the launch of their SandForce SSDF with synchronous ONFI flash memory, but we can’t come up with any objective reasons justifying this delay. Pyro SE, which falls right in the middle between the other two SSD families...

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By Vortez on March 14, 2012

£158 (At time of review)Patriot Memory are well known for their RAM and USB flash products and awareness of their SSD products is also growing. Their SATA 2 SSDs Inferno and Torqx, may not be that well known but their SATA 3 SSDs – Wildfire...

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By ThinkComputers on March 04, 2012

The Pyro SE from Patriot is a very solid drive. As far as performance goes it is right on par with the other SandFoce-based drives in its class and performs just under its older brother the Patriot Wildfire. Unfortunately we did not test the...

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By Tom's Hardware UK on March 01, 2012

What makes one SandForce-based SSD different from the others that appear to be just like it? We round up 10 models with 60 GB of capacity to explore the effects of NAND interfaces. We also stumble across some interesting data related to full drives....

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By APH Networks on January 20, 2012

With an outside temperature of about -30 degrees Celsius at the time of writing this review (That's -22 degrees Fahrenheit for those oddballs who still use such a weird unit of measurement, but we will leave that discussion for another day),...

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By TweakTown on January 16, 2012

Generally around this time of year we spend more time looking forward at next year's products than we do with products that are currently on the market. Blame the economy, global unrest or the Mayan Calendar if you want, but the 2012 SSD outlook...

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