Patriot WildFire SSD review: Patriot WildFire SSD

The standard 2.5-inch laptop Patriot WildFire is the second SSD we've seen that's also desktop-friendly, thanks to the included drive-bay converter. Supporting the latest SATA 3 (6Gbps) standard, the drive offers fast performance compared to regular hard drives. Compared with other SSDs, however, its copy speeds were relatively slow in our tests.

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Patriot WildFire SSD

The Good

The 2.5-inch laptop <b>Patriot WildFire</b> solid-state drive (SSD) comes with a drive-bay converter so it can also fit in a 3.5-inch (desktop) drive bay. It supports SATA 3 (6Gbps) and offers a huge improvement over traditional hard drives.

The Bad

The Patriot WildFire is expensive and takes a long time to be formatted. Its data transfer speed is comparatively slow.

The Bottom Line

The Patriot WildFire offers significant performance gain on any computer at a premium cost.

The Patriot WildFire's cost is on par with most other SSDs, meaning that it's very expensive in terms of cost per gigabyte, at around $550 for 240GB (or $315 for the 120GB version). If you can afford that, you won't be disappointed and will definitely benefit from the performance gain. Make sure, however, to also check out other SATA 3-based SSDs we have reviewed . Chances are you'll be able to find one among them that is more affordable or offers better performance, or both.

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