Patriot Hellfire SSD Review (480GB) – Fast & Efficient

CRYSTAL DISK BENCHMARK VER. 4.0.3 X64

Crystal Disk Benchmark is used to measure read and write performance through sampling of random data which is, for the most part, incompressible. Performance is virtually identical, regardless of data sample so we have included only that using random data samples.

Crystal Disk Mark’s results are lower than what ATTO reports, but on the product brief, Patriot lists CDM to be rated for up to 2550MB/s read and 1260MB/s write. Given the above result we can see it easily surpasses those speeds and overall, shows very compared to the rest of the PCIe SSD market.

AS SSD BENCHMARK VER 1.8

The toughest benchmark available for solid state drives is AS SSD as it relies solely on incompressible data samples when testing performance. For the most part, AS SSD tests can be considered the ‘worst case scenario’ in obtaining data transfer speeds and many enthusiasts like AS SSD for their needs. Transfer speeds are displayed on the left with IOPS results on the right.

The results shown by AS SSD align with what we would normally expect based upon a drive’s earlier performance in CDM. Overall, the Patriot Hellfire achieved 2784 points. It surpassed its read and write IOPS ratings and did very well in the copy test.

ANVIL STORAGE UTILITIES PROFESSIONAL

Anvil’s Storage Utilities (ASU) are the most complete test bed available for the solid state drive today. The benchmark displays test results for, not only throughput but also, IOPS and Disk Access Times. Not only does it have a preset SSD benchmark, but also, it has included such things as endurance testing and threaded I/O read, write and mixed tests, all of which are very simple to understand and use in our benchmark testing.

In Anvil Storage Utilities, we can see that the Hellfire reached an overall score of 10.4K. Reads maxed at 2GB/s and writes at 1.2GB/s.