Patriot Warp v2 128GB SSD Review

Real World Data Transfers

No matter how good a synthetic benchmark like IOMeter, it can not really tell you how your hard drive will perform in “real world” situations. All of us here at Hardware Canucks strive to give you the best, most complete picture of a review item’s true capabilities and to this end we will be running timed data transfers to give you a general idea of how its performance relates to real life use. To help replicate worse case scenarios we will transfer a 4.00GB contiguous RAR file and a folder containg 49 subfolders with a total 2108 files varying in length from 20mb to 1kb (1.00 GB total).

Testing will include transfer to and transferring from the devices, timing each process individually to provide an approximate Read and Write performance. To then stress the dive even more we will then make a copy of the large file to another portion of the same drive and then repeat the process with the small one. This will test the drive to its limits as it will be reading and writing simultaneously. Here is what we found.


Unfortunately, the Warp v2’s rule came to a screeching halt when write times were involved. Its read speeds are still impressive but the JM602 controller really started to handicap this drive and it not only hurt the read times of this drive it for all intents and purposes caused this drive to tank in the harder “copy to self” test. It really is a pity as we know this drive is capable of so much more yet it relegated to second class status because Patriot gave JMicron a second chance. Let’s hope either JMicron gets its act together or Patriot drops it like a hot potato for their Warp v3 line.