Patriot Memory 64GB Torqx SSD
Jul 10th, 2009 | By SimonHeading over to Patriot Memory’s website, we are directed to a common page for the Torqx drives with individual links based on the drive capacity, in my case I have the 64GB Torqx.
Here are the key features:
- Available in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB capacities
- Interface: SATA I/II
- Raid Support: 0, 1, 0+1
- 256GB and 128GB: Sequential Read: up to 260MB/s Sequential Write: up to 180MB/s
- 64GB: Sequential Read: up to 220MB/s Sequential Write: up to 135MB/s
- Shock Resistant: 1500G/0.5ms
- Vibration Resistant: 20G/10~2000Hz with 3 Axis
- Operating Consumption & Power: DC 5V <550mA 2.75W
- Operating Temperature: 0ºC~70ºC
- Storage Temperature: -40ºC~ 85ºC
- MTBF: >2,500,000 Hours
- Data Retention: 5 years at 25ºC
- Data Reliability: Built in BCH 8, 12 and 16-bit ECC
- O/S Support: Windows XP and Vista, Linux, and Mac OS X
- Dimensions: 99.88 x 69.63x 9.3 mm
- Weight: 91g
- Certification: FCC/CE/RoHS
- 2 Year Warranty
There’s a good 40MB/s drop in sequential performance with the 64GB drive compared to the 128GB and 256GB. There’s no mention of random read/write performance which is what hampered JMicron-based drives many original early SSD adopters were plagued with.
What solved the slow performance of original JMicron drives was addition of 64MB cache. With the Torqx, that is provided by an ELPIDA S51321CBH-6DTT-F 64MB SDRAM chip. The onboard cache will dramatically improve read and write commands. The controller as we already probably know is the Indilinx Arm chip.
Providing the storage itself is an array of Samsung NAND flash memory modules. Eight modules have been installed and the board is capable of a total of 16.
The power graph doesn’t seem to be right on page 4. Can the power really be 200 watts? Or was it 2.xx watts? Also, I would imagine the idle power consumption differs greatly from the loaded power consumption for SSD drives and not so much for magnetic drives. But I don’t see it here. Am I missing something?
The power reading for the the PSU, not just the hard drive. The numbers reported are from my power meter.
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