Patriot Torqx 128GB SSD Review

Read Bandwidth

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 drives. 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.


Well this is certainly a nice way to start the performance section of the review! Of course, the differences between the top few drives are most likely due to slight variations in the various chips used. It will certainly be interesting to see if this winning streak continues in the other tests.

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 utilities the HD Tune Pro writes across the full area of the drive, thus it easily shows any weakness a drive may have.


Interestingly, this SSD seems to be leaning more to the Falcon end of the scale rather than the Vertex. It seems that OCZ has tweaked their firmware more than the other companies as this is the second Barefoot-based SSD to be smacked around by the Vertex’s write performance. On the plus side, the Torqx certainly has nothing to be ashamed of as it does eat the VRaptor for breakfast and has room left over for the X-25M for brunch.