Patriot Warp v2 128GB SSD Review

Read Performance

For this benchmark, HDTach was used. It shows the potential read speed which you are likely to experience with these hard drives. The long test was run to give a slightly more accurate picture.

We don’t put much stock in Burst speed readings and this goes double for SSD based hard drive. The main reason we include it is to show what under perfect conditions a given drive is capable of; but the more important number is the Average Speed number. This number will tell you what to expect from a given drive in normal, day to day operations. The higher the average the faster your entire system will seem.


In the case of the Warp v2, 176.8 and 141.3 are very respectable numbers for a more budget focused SSD. Heck an average read speed of 140MB/s…that is what the stuff dreams and RAID controllers are made of; and the only place you will ever see numbers like this with a single drive is with SSDs. While these numbers are not as good as the Intel X25, this drive is slightly older and a heck of a lot cheaper than that beast. Add in over 50% extra capacity and this little guy is shaping up very well indeed.

Write Performance

For this benchmark HD Tune Pro was used. To run the write benchmark on a drive, you must first remove all partitions from that drive and then and only then will it allow you to run this test. Unlike some other benchmarking utlities the HD Tune Pro writes across the full area of the drive, thus it easily shows any weakness a drive may have.

While most OS drives spend most of their times reading and not writing, the write speed of the drive does have a big impact on the stutter issue and how fast the drive feels.


The Patriot Warp v2 is capable of an average of 90+ MB/s writes but unfortunately it did have numerous dips all of which were under 20MB/s with the worst being 15.5. This last number is not good. It’s not terrible but the sectors responsible for those abysmal performance numbers are prime candidates for early sector death AND are a severe stutter just waiting to happen. This is the best case scenario, the worst is this hints at a controller issue; or to be precise, a controller which is easily saturated by even simple continuous requests. Our stutter test will shed more light on this matter but it is something to keep in mind as we progress through these tests.