Patriot Memory Pyro solid-state drive review: Patriot Memory Pyro solid-state drive

The Patriot Memory Pyro is somewhat of a downgrade from the Patriot Wildfire in terms of both price and performance. The drive was slightly slower in our testing and is among the more expensive SATA 3 (6Gbps) solid-state drives on the market. That said, it's still about 90 cents per gigabyte cheaper than its brother and will offer significant improvement to your computer's performance when used as a replacement for the boot drive. Note, however, that you might not want to let the computer go into sleep mode when the drive is used. In our testing, the drive would occasionally dismount when waking up from sleep mode, causing a blue-screen error. If you can live with that, the Patriot Memory Pyro still makes a decent investment.

6.8

Patriot Memory Pyro solid-state drive

The Good

The 2.5-inch SATA 3 (6Gbps)-based <b>Patriot Memory Pyro</b> solid-state drive (SSD) offers decent performance and works in any application in which other SATA hard drives are used.

The Bad

The Patriot Memory Pyro randomly dismounts sometimes when the computer comes out of sleep mode. The drive doesn't come with a drive bay converter to make it work with desktops, and its data transfer rates could use some improvement.

The Bottom Line

The Patriot Memory Pyro is a decent SSD among its peers and will improve your computer's performance significantly when used as a replacement hard drive.

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