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Today we will reviewing the Patriot Memory Ignite 240GB SSD. The Ignite is one of several SSD series in Patriot's range of storage devices, aimed at the performance user.We'll start off with a little history lesson. Back in the early days of enthusiast co...
Phison S10 Series SSD controller, DRAM Cache: 256MB, SATA3 – 6Gbps, 7mm thickness, Up to 560MB/s Read, Up to 405 MB/s Write...
None I can think of, Final Words, If you want a high performance SSD for custom PC builds, ultrabooks or laptops, then we highly recommend the Patriot Ignite 240GB SSD. It offers very good performance at a price that's incredibly affordable. For this rea...
If you want a high performance SSD for custom PC builds, ultrabooks or laptops, then we highly recommend the Patriot Ignite 240GB SSD. It offers very good performance at a price that's incredibly affordable. For this reason, we gave it our “Recommended” A...
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Solid state drives (SSDs) may not be as interesting as they were upon their launch and until a couple of years ago but they are still amongst the hottest hardware components in the market something which you can easily tell just by looking at the number o...
Build Quality, Very Good Overall Performance, 2.000.000 Hours MTBF, Feature Set, 3 Year Warranty, Current Price (For Some)...
IOmeter SNIA Tests Performance...
It's been a while since we last had an SSD by Patriot Memory so we were quite interested to see how their latest Ignite 480GB model would perform and compare against other similar solutions by other manufacturers. Well as you can see in our normal test su...
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Since releasing the Pyro solid state drive back in 2011, Patriot seemed to have backed away from the SSD market to instead focus mainly on computer memory, Flash and portable devices accessories. However, Patriot recently released a trio of SSD drives and...
Patriot is back in the SSD game with the release of three new products that pledge good performance at a low cost. The trio of SSDs are the Torch, Blaze, and finally the Ignite we reviewed today. The manufacturer opted to use a high performance Phison con...
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Founded in 1985, Patriot designs, manufactures and markets high performance, enthusiast memory modules, flash memory, and mobile accessory products with the objective of offering a perfect blend of quality and value for consumers.The Patriot Ignite is one...
Well Priced, High Quality Components, Sturdy construction...
The Ignite's sequential read speeds were excellent, exceeding 563 MB/s read and 546 MB/s in some tests. Drive speed is constant as well. We have yet to test a SATA drive that is faster than the Ignite. At these speeds, our test motherboard's Intel SATA co...
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Back in November of last year, we tested the Corsair Neutron XT , which was the first product to feature the Phison PS3110-S10 controller . First spotted at Flash Memory Summit , the S10 sports the following features:Corsair was Phison's launch partner, b...
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Even after our LAN this weekend I'm not burnt out on all of the storage talk, so it is only fitting that I continue our streak of SSD reviews. Today I have a drive from Patriot in the office. Specifically their new Ignite in a 480GB capacity. The Ignite i...
Well from the beginning I was excited to see what Patriot has been up too, for the most part we haven't covered their drives in a long time. Right out of the hole I was really digging how the drive looks. It did have the same basic steel casing that the...
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DRAM and NAND flash are made by the same companies, which work with other partners to produce the final retail hardware we buy for our computers. Those relationships help explain why some of the RAM vendors were first to introduce consumer-oriented SSDs...
Asynchronous flash allows companies to shave a few dollars off of the MSRP. The Ignite brings a powerful controller down a price tier but don't think this bargain is premium performance SSD at a low price...
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We have not seen a new solid state drive from Patriot in a while. Over the past couple years they sort of took a step back from the SSD industry and focused more on flash memory products and mobile accessories. Well it looks like they are back full a line...
Great sequential performance, Price, Great feature set of the Phison S10 controller...
Drive only, no extras, Slower 4K and IOPS scores...
This is the second drive we have reviewed that has used Phison's S10 controller. The first was the Corsair Neutron XT. The Phison PS3110-S10 is a true quad-core controller, with three of its cores exclusively being used for flash management tasks like bac...
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After Patriot's two-year hiatus from the SSD industry, the company has finally put themselves right back in the thick of things with the release of the Patriot Ignite SSD, which is designed for a variety of use cases inside notebooks and PCs including gam...
Good reliability feature-set, Good performance during our 4K aligned write benchmark, Excellent power efficiency when idling...
Very poor overall performance , Significantly overpriced in the mainstream SSD market...
Overall the Ignite SSD was a bit of a letdown. However, if Patriot finds a way to lower the price tag below its array of competitors, the Ignite may have potential in finding a demographic that is more motivated by cost than anything else. Patriot Ignite...
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Although once dominant as the go to pre-packaged SSD controller solution for most tier 2 and tier 3 SSD manufacturers, SandForce's aging SF-2281 controller has been rapidly losing marketshare as of late thanks to newer pre-packaged controller offerings fr...
With testing out of the way, let's talk a little bit more about our results. The Patriot Ignite is a unique SSD with an interesting mix of a high performance controller and relatively slow NAND. Because of this combination, the Patriot Ignite is able to a...
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Our recent trip to CES 2015 afforded us the opportunity to meet with folks from Patriot Memory. They were eager to show off some of their newest products and provide us with a glimpse of things to come. One such product on display was their new Ignite ser...
There is little doubt that SSDs are outgrowing the SATA interface and have probably already saturated the bandwidth limits. The future of SSDs lies within the PCI-E bus, and that seems to be where the migration is headed. Having said that, Patriot did a...
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As with many third-party SSDs in previous years, Patriot's drives have typically been SandForce driven. Recently, Phison has become recognized as a solid competitor in the SSD controller game through their offering of great performance at a decent price...
Ignite is one of three Phison powered SSDs Patriot has released into the market. Utilizing the Phison S10 controller the Ignite was able to achieve 100K read IOPS in testing. It also has a plethora of ECC features as well as AES 256-bit encryption suppor...
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