Patriot Torqx 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 gamout 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).


We may have some questions over the specific performance envelopes of the Vertex, Falcon and this SSD but it really did NOT come as any surprise that it has the exact same Random access times as the others. Indeed, the brand names here seem to mean very little.

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.


Even this abomination of a testing program agrees that there is little to no difference between the three Indilinx based SSDs. More importantly it is getting harder and harder for the various companies' fanboys to use performance as a justification of picking one Indilinx SSD over another. On the other hand, a 10 year warranty...now THAT is something that justifies the slightly elevated price for this Indilinx based drive.