Patriot Warp v2 128GB SSD Review

Random Access Time

To obtain the absolute, most accurate Random access time, h2benchw was used for this benchmark. This benchmark tests how quickly different areas of the drive’s memory can be accessed. A low number means that the drive space can be accessed quickly while a high number means that more time is taken trying to access different parts of the drive. To run this program, one must use a DOS prompt and tell it what sections of the test to run. While one could use “h2benchw 1 -english -s -tt "harddisk test" -w test” for example and just run the seek tests, we took the more complete approach and ran the full gamut of tests and then extracted the necessary information from the text file. This is the command line argument we used “h2benchw 1 -a -! -tt "harddisk drivetest" -w drivetest”. This tells the program to write all results in english, save them in drivetest txt file, do write and read tests and do it all on drive 1 (or the second drive found, with 0 being the OS drive).


If seeing such ultra low numbers being accurately reported to you on any hard drive doesn't put a smile on your face….well then turn in your DIY geek badge, ‘cause you don’t qualify anymore. 0.18ms is phenomenal for any drive and very good for a SSD. It really does show how far MLC tech has come when this older 2nd gen SSD puts the screws to the SLC drive we tested just last year. With numbers like this, backed up with great read speeds you just KNOW that most programs are going to magically appear even before your finger is released from double clicking the icon. Of course as good as these numbers are, the X-25 really highlights what the true potential is lying dormant in all these newer uber quick MLC chips. We have a sneaking suspicion the 0.09ms of the X-25 could be beaten with the Patriot's Samsung chips….IF it had the right controller.

SIS Sandra

This test was run with the removable storage benchmark in Sandra XII Standard. All of the scores are calculated in operations per second and have been averaged out from the scores of 4 test runs.


Once again the power of these MLC based SSD drives is revealed. The WD 640 is no slouch and neither is the vRaptor but thus little Warp v2 easily smokes them in IO’s per second. The very fact anything can do this while using less power and taking up less physical space really makes the tech geek in us smile.