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G.Skill & Patriot Solid State Drive Reviews


Wed 2008-12-31 - Posted by Patrick "MACMAC" MacMillan
Guru3D, Overclockers Online, Rbmods, and TestFreaks have reviewed 64GB and 128GB solid state drives from G.Skill and Patriot.

Let's see what they had to say:

  • Guru3D: G.Skill SSD Solid State Disk 64 GB:

    "The G.Skill SATA II 2.5" SSD 64 GB MLC version can be bought for just over $150 USD, the 128 GB version for roughly 260 USD. These drives come with a two year warranty and quite honestly if you are willing to pay a little more for your storage, come very much recommended. The latest SSD drives are very impressive you guys, very impressive."


    Click here to read the full review.


  • Overclockers Online: G.SKILL FM-25S2S-64GB MLC SSD Drive:

    "I've put the G.Skill 64GB MLC SSD through its paces and am pleased with its overall performance. It's absolutely quiet, it draws less power than your regular hard drive, my boot times have dropped by ridiculous amounts and overall performance keeps up with some of today's newest platter hard drives available. It's definitely not the fastest hard drive out there, but the future is definitely bright for G.Skill's SSD family. "


    Click here to read the full review.


  • Rbmods: G.SKILL FM-25S2S-64GB SSD Drive:

    "The only flaw that I see with these drives is the actual price, they are just way to expensive for a normal user but with time I know the prices will drop and the sizes of the driver will increase. This 64GB drive could work well though as a software/windows disk and will for sure speed things up. I don't think there is much more I can say about this drive than it outperforms normal drives and even after longer times of high load the drive doesn't heat up nor does it make any noise. Finally the old harddrives might get replaced with something better, they have been the bottlenecks for a longer period of time now and this is what I will for sure recommend you guys to get."


    Click here to read the full review.


  • TestFreaks: Patriot 128GB Warp SSD Drive PE128GS25SSDR:

    "The Patriot Warp SSD drive is a nice choice to replace your notebook drive, it offers much better speeds in both read and write than standard 2.5" HDDs do, and of course you’ve got the bonus of no moving parts to worry about as well. The Warp might not be as fast as newer 3.5" drives are but it’s close, and the read speeds surpass that of most standard hard drives today.

    SSD drives have dropped in price substantially since their first inceptions, there was a point when they were a luxury item but now they’re well within price range of the average consumer. They still aren’t close those to the per gigabyte price of standard hard drives, so until that time comes we won’t seem them really going mainstream anytime soon."


    Click here to read the full review.

G.Skill have created an impressive SSD series that is not only impressively fast, but relatively affordable as well.

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