Patriot Torqx 128GB SSD Review

Crystal DiskMark

Crystal DiskMark is designed to quickly test the performance of your hard drives. Currently, the program allows to measure sequential and random read/write speeds; and allows you to set the number of tests iterations to run. We left the number of tests at 5. When all 5 tests for a given section were run Crystal DiskMark then averages out all 5 numbers to give a result for that section.

Read Performance

As expected, these results are awfully darn good and once again they just underline our assumption that for the most part an Indilinx Barefoot SSD is a Indilinx Barefoot SSD regardless of the label plastered on the outside of the case.

Write Performance

Well now this is interesting. It seems that this SSD is the only Indilinx drive to break the 12MB/sec mark in the grueling 4k write test on our testbed. It still is nowhere in the same league as the X-25M but the slight variances in chips we talked about earlier does seem to give our particular drive a nice little boost in performance. We wonder what other surprises are going to pop up.