“Patriot is celebrating their 25th anniversary this year and since their 1985 inception, the California based company has grown to become a global company with a solid reputation for providing quality memory and storage products. They didn’t jump into the SSD market full force as some others have, but they have taken a more conservative approach instead. They are adding to their SSD lineup this month, releasing a value line of SSD’s carrying the moniker of Zephyr – a name with roots to Greek mythology. The Zephyr line offers capacities of 64GB and 128GB at $184 & $358, respectively, and can only be found at Amazon.com for the first few weeks of availability. There is also a 256GB version but we have not received word on pricing yet. They all carry the newer JMicron JMF612 controller…”Here are some more Storage reviews from around the web:
- A-DATA S599 SSD RAID Report SandForce SF-1200 x2 @ Tweaktown
- Kingston SSDNow V Series SNV425 128GB @ Techgage
- QNAP TS-259 Pro Turbo NAS Server @ Benchmark Reviews
- Hitachi CinemaStar 7K1000.C (500 GB) @ TechARP
- 500 GB Hard Disk Drives Roundup @ X-bit Labs
- Sunbeamtech USB 3.0 Airbox External Enclosure Review @ OCIA
- Iomega iConnect Review @ Digital Trends
- StarTech USB 3.0 to SATA 2.5″/3.5″ hard drive docking station review @ Elite Bastards
- Patriot Memory 16GB Bolt USB Flash Drive @ CCEReview
- KamaConnect Plus Muliti-Purpose HDD Adapter @ Pro-Clockers
- Computer Geeks 2.5″ USB 3.0 Drive Kit Review @ OCIA
- QNAP TS-459 Pro 4-Bay TurboNAS @ Tweaktown
Patriot’s new SSD breezes onto the market
Check out Patriot’s 128GB Zephyr SSD which uses the JMicron 612 controller, very similar to the 618 apart from supporting Samsung NAND instead of Toshiba NAND. At about $2.80/GB the drive is cheaper than offerings by Corsair and OCZ but still runs you more than the Intel X25-M G2. Legit Reviews saw the advertised 240MB/s read and 145MB/s writein their testing; not bad at all for what is positioned as a value level SSD. If the price drops then we could have a real contender in the Zephyr series of SSDs.