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It doesn’t matter how good any of the synthetic suites are, the real meat of the testing has to be under absolute real world conditions. This proves difficult as to record results we have to narrow down fluctuation. Therefore while we would say these are the most useful results to get from this review, there is always going to be a slight margin for error – its not absolutely scientific.
Firstly we installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit Edition onto each of the drives and performed a clean update from Microsoft with all patches and security fixes. We then install a basic suite of software, such as Office, Firefox and Adobe Design, then we install AVG free antivirus. We used a digital watch for this startup and repeated the test five times for each drive – once we had these five results we averaged the results and took that for the final figure.
Both drives are right up with the class leaders, scoring 22 seconds.
No performance concerns with this test, keeping up with the ADATA S511 and MemoRight FTM Plus 240GB.
With the current price of hard drives, its even better value.
Wow very nice, shame they didnt bring out the pyro se for £300 inc vat. might have made more sense with Wildfire drops in price.
Wildfire getting an SE too ?
Its tough to know with so many SF 2281 drives on market. they aren’t all equal but I bet most people wouldnt know if a system had a SATA 6 GB or 3GB drive in it, under real world conditions.
The 120GB sounds like good value, how come you pay over double the price for double the storage (120>240gb)? is that a mistake?
@ chief maggot. The high density NAND flash is more expensive so thats why. They aren’t just adding another 16 modules into the PCB. each one is twice the capacity.
Lovely, ill have two of those for my next system (pyro se)
Patriot make great drives. Good memory too.
Might look into a 120gb se before holidays
Still waiting on hard drive prices to drop, so i can get a 2tb for storage.
Anyone know if i would notice much real world increases over a first gen ssd? Kingston
@lank, have you a motherboard with sata 3 ports?
Yeah, very nice. Im quite happy with my corsair force, even if its aged a bit
Hard to go wrong with a sf2281. Do patriot offer direct warranty or is it via the store?
I got a lot of hassle trying to replace a faulty ocz last year