Patriot Pyro Review

Testing:

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Benchmark:

File Benchmark:

Random Access Benchmark:

For the most part, the Patriot Pyro appeared to perform the worst out of all the drives using the SandForce SF-2281 controller. We saw a slight change in this trend when it came to the random access read benchmarks. That being said, all drives using the SandForce SF-2281 controller performed extremely fast, including the Pyro!