Patriot Inferno 60GB SSD Review

AIDA64

AIDA64 from FinalWire is produced by the very same people who gave us the excellent Everest and contains the same quality benchmarking and information tools.

Read Test

Starting on the left with the Linear Read test we can see that by and large the drive performs well with the only major drops occurring as the controller switches between memory chips. An average of 241MB/s isn't too bad at all although it's strange to see the peak not being much higher than the average.

The Random Read test is massively more impressive. An average read of 271MB/s shows where the strengths of the SandForce controller lay and that's especially good considering you'll be performing random reads in daily usage far more than linear ones. There must be some buffering going on for the maximum read test speeds because the SATA II interface theoretically doesn't support such high speeds. However it occurs regularly enough that at the very least we can say it's maxing out the interface.

Write Test

Write performance, a strength of the SandForce controller, is excellent. The Linear Write looking very similar to the Linear Read test both in flatness and absolute speed. 

We see similar results within the Random Write test as the drive is clearly capable of giving the SATA II interface everything it can handle and, despite one big dip, handily pumps along just shy of 270MB/s.