Patriot Wildfire 120GB Review

Testing:

HD Tune 4.60 Pro measures disk performance to make comparisons between drives or disk controllers. In the 4.60 Pro version, the user can measure not only drive performance as a whole, but more precise file benchmarks and a random access benchmark as well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Starting out strong, the Patriot Wildfire drive shows that the 120GB drive size is not an impediment to performance. In many of these tests, the Wildfire is on par with the OCZ Vertex 3. One apparent weakness is the 64K random access benchmarks.