Patriot Blaze & Pyro 240GB – brzi test

Iz Microlinea smo na test dobili dva Patriotova SSD-a naziva Blaze i Pyro. Prvi je temeljen oko Phison kontrolera a drugi oko sada već dosta starog SandForce SF-2281. Oba modela su imala kapacitet od 240 GB što je u današnje vrijeme optimalan kapacitet u odnosu na cijenu. Patriot inače ima još dvije serije 2.5" SSD-a, Ignite i Torch, te jednu mSATA Pyro M3.

Blaze koristi Phison PS3108-S8 controller, Nanyin DDR3 DRAM (512MB DDR3-1333), i IMFT 16nm ONFi NAND. Kapacitet mu je 240 GB, s tim da je 8GB rezervirano za "global dynamic and static wear-leveling". Tvorničke performanse govore o 555MB/s pri čitanju i 535MB pri zapisu, a disk ima klasično SATA III sučelje. Formatiran u NTFS ima kapacitet od 223GB. Podržava i napredni Garbage Collection, uz Smart ECC i Smart Refresh. MTBF je 1.2 milijuna sati, a jamstvo je trogodišnje.

Pyro je s druge strane baziran na dobro poznatom SandForce SF-2281 kontroleru o kojem smo pisali u više navrata u zadnjih nekoliko godina., a i sam proizvod je već duže vremena na tržištu. Pyro također ima SATA III sučelje, uz tvorničke brzine čitanja od 550MB/s, i zapisa od 535MB/s. Za ovaj disk proizvođač navodi i maksimalni broj ulazno-izlaznih operacija pri nasumičnom 4K zapisu - 85.000. Disk podržava TRIM, te DuraClass i DuraWrite tehnologije, kao i "Intelligent Block Management and Wear Leveling", te "Intelligent Data Retention". MTBF je 2 milijuna sati, a jamstvo je trogodišnje.

Test sistem:

Test sistem :: Hardware Platforme Asus Rampage IV Extreme Procesor(i) Intel i7-3960X Memorija G.Skill 4 x 4GB 1866MHz Grafičke kartice Asus GTX760 Zvučna kartica On Board SSD Patriot Blaze & Pyro 240GB Napajanje Thermaltake GrandPower 1050W Monitor Dell UltraSharp U2713HM

 

Testni sistem :: Software OS Windows 8.1 Chipset datoteke Intel Chipset Driver 10.0.13 DirectX verzija 11 Intel I/O Meter 2006.07.27/1.1 Beta ATTO Disk Benchmark v.2.47 AIDA64 Engeneer Edition, v.4.3.2900

 

Način testiranja

Diskove smo testirali na Asusovoj Rampage IV Extreme ploči, i s Intelovim i7-3960X procesorom. Prilikom testiranja je radili su u AHCI načinu rada i sa Microsoft Storage driverima (MSAHCI), što su im dodijelili Windowsi 8.1. Uz sve standardne testove koje provodimo tu je i simulacija četiriju situacija uz pomoć I/O Metera - Database sa 67% čitanja i 33% zapisa, Workstation sa 80% čitanja i 20% zapisa, Web Servera sa 100% čitanja i File Servera sa 80% čitanja i 20% zapisa, nakon čega ispisujemo broj izmjerenih IOPS-a. Savjeti za svakodnevnu operativu SSD-a pod Windows OS-om uključuju isključivanje stvari kao što su indeksiranje diska, zatim isključivanje prefetcha i Superfetcha te defragmentiranja koje je sasvim nepotrebno.

AIDA64 Read [ichart headers="ID,MB/s" htitle="Linear Read (MB/s)"  labels="Asus Hyper Express 256GB,OCZ Vector 256GB,OCZ Vector 150 120GB,Corsair Force LX 256GB,takeMS UTX-PO318,AMD Radeon R7 SSD 240GB,OCZ ARC 100 240 GB,Patriot Blaze 240GB, Intel DC S3500 480GB,Intel SSD 730 240GB,OCZ Vertex 460 240GB,OCZ Vertex 450 256GB,Intel SSD335 240GB,Crucial MX100 512GB,Patriot Pyro 240GB" values="644.1,540.7,540.7,539.8,526.7,526.1,525.8,525.56,523.23,520.96,402.1,384.7,377.56,356.6,313.93" colors="blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,red,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,orange" height="400", min="0" max="700"] [ichart headers="ID,MB/s" htitle="Random Read (MB/s)"  labels="OCZ Vector 150 120GB,Asus Hyper Express 256GB,AMD Radeon R7 SSD 240GB,Intel SSD 730 240GB,takeMS UTX-PO318,OCZ Vector 256GB,Corsair Force LX 256GB,OCZ ARC 100 240 GB,Patriot Blaze 240GB,Intel DC S3500 480GB,OCZ Vertex 460 240GB,OCZ Vertex 450 256GB,Intel SSD335 240GB,Crucial MX100 512GB,Patriot Pyro 240GB" values="698.5,674.8,604.7,603.2,592.9,570.2,560.9,547.1,545.8,535.7,420.8,397.9,392.6,356.4,345.4" colors="blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,red,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,orange" height="400", min="0" max="700"] [ichart headers="ID,ms" htitle="Average Read Access (ms)"  labels="OCZ Vector 256GB,OCZ Vector 150 120GB,Corsair Force LX 256GB,Intel DC S3500 480GB,Intel SSD 730 240GB,takeMS UTX-PO318,AMD Radeon R7 SSD 240GB,OCZ ARC 100 240 GB,Patriot Blaze 240GB,OCZ Vertex 450 256GB,OCZ Vertex 460 240GB,Crucial MX100 512GB,Intel SSD335 240GB,Patriot Pyro 240GB,Asus Hyper Express 256GB" values="0.02,0.02,0.03,0.03,0.03,0.03,0.04,0.04,0.04,0.08,0.11,0.12,0.17,0.21,0.25" colors="blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,red,blue,blue,blue,blue,orange,blue" height="400", min="0" max="0.25"] AIDA64 testovi čitanja za Blaze prate proizvođačeve specifikacije, dok je Pyro dosta sporiji, i po pitanju propusnosti i kod vremena pristupa. AIDA64 Write [ichart headers="ID,MB/s" htitle="Linear Write (MB/s)"  labels="Crucial MX100 512GB,Asus Hyper Express 256GB,Intel DC S3500 480GB,AMD Radeon R7 SSD 240GB,OCZ Vertex 460 240GB,OCZ Vector 256GB,OCZ ARC 100 240 GB,Patriot Blaze 240GB,Corsair Force LX 256GB,OCZ Vector 150 120GB,Intel SSD 730 240GB,OCZ Vertex 450 256GB,Intel SSD335 240GB,takeMS UTX-PO318,Patriot Pyro 240GB" values="485.1,451.4,430.9,366.5,362.9,353,314.3,308.8,290.7,285.5,273.8,259.6,225.2,198.5,150.1" colors="blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,red,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,orange" height="400", min="0" max="500"] [ichart headers="ID,MB/s" htitle="Random Write (MB/s)"  labels="OCZ Vertex 460 240GB,OCZ Vector 256GB,Intel DC S3500 480GB,AMD Radeon R7 SSD 240GB,OCZ ARC 100 240 GB,Patriot Blaze 240GB,OCZ Vertex 450 256GB,Crucial MX100 512GB,Intel SSD 730 240GB,Corsair Force LX 256GB,takeMS UTX-PO318,OCZ Vector 150 120GB,Intel SSD335 240GB,Patriot Pyro 240GB,Asus Hyper Express 256GB" values="396.5,395.6,343.6,329.3,310.2,298.4,296.6,284.9,280.7,252.4,219,201.4,168.6,104,100.2" colors="blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,red,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,orange,blue" height="400", min="0" max="400"] [ichart headers="ID,ms" htitle="Average Write Access (ms)"  labels="Intel DC S3500 480GB,Intel SSD 730 240GB,OCZ Vector 150 120GB,OCZ Vertex 460 240GB,AMD Radeon R7 SSD 240GB,OCZ ARC 100 240 GB,OCZ Vertex 450 256GB,Crucial MX100 512GB,Corsair Force LX 256GB,Asus Hyper Express 256GB,OCZ Vector 256GB,Intel SSD335 240GB,Patriot Pyro 240GB,Patriot Blaze 240GB,takeMS UTX-PO318" values="0.03,0.04,0.04,0.04,0.05,0.05,0.05,0.08,0.15,0.28,0.3,0.36,0.56,1.32,2.12" colors="blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,orange,red,blue" height="400", min="0" max="2.2"] Performanse zapisa su niže od onoga što proizvođač navodi, a kod Pyro modela je to jako izraženo, pri čemu oba imaju visoko vrijeme pristupa.

ATTO Disk Benchmark [ichart headers="ID,MB/s" htitle="Read 4kb"  labels="Patriot Blaze 240GB,OCZ Vector 150 120GB,OCZ Vector 256GB,OCZ Vertex 460 240GB,Corsair Force LX 256GB,OCZ ARC 100 240 GB,Intel SSD 730 240GB,Patriot Pyro 240GB,takeMS UTX-PO318,Intel DC S3500 480GB,OCZ Vertex 450 256GB,Crucial MX100 512GB,AMD Radeon R7 SSD 240GB,Intel SSD335 240GB,ASUS Hyper Express 256GB" values="358.4,316.648,308.224,288.768,267.264,259.477,248.832,242.688,239.018,232.889,224.718,211.439,201.728,110.041,95.777" colors="red,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,orange,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue" height="400", min="0" max="360"] [ichart headers="ID,MB/s" htitle="Write 4kb"  labels="Patriot Blaze 240GB,takeMS UTX-PO318,Patriot Pyro 240GB,Intel SSD 730 240GB,OCZ Vertex 460 240GB,Intel DC S3500 480GB,OCZ Vector 256GB,Corsair Force LX 256GB,OCZ ARC 100 240 GB,Crucial MX100 512GB,OCZ Vector 150 120GB,AMD Radeon R7 SSD 240GB,OCZ Vertex 450 256GB,ASUS Hyper Express 256GB,Intel SSD335 240GB" values="344.064,339.12,328.704,285.696,270.336,264.192,259.424,247.808,243.104,208.896,195.548,182.838,181.635,118.784,96.015" colors="red,blue,orange,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue" height="400", min="0" max="350"] [ichart headers="ID,MB/s" htitle="Read 512kb"  labels="OCZ Vector 150 120GB,OCZ Vector 256GB,Corsair Force LX 256GB,Crucial MX100 512GB,takeMS UTX-PO318,Intel SSD 730 240GB,Patriot Blaze 240GB,OCZ Vertex 460 240GB,AMD Radeon R7 SSD 240GB,Patriot Pyro 240GB,Intel DC S3500 480GB,OCZ ARC 100 240 GB,OCZ Vertex 450 256GB,Intel SSD335 240GB,ASUS Hyper Express 256GB" values="562.478,561.296,558.948,558.751,557.781,554.309,553.161,550.880,547.494,528.936,502.914,487.709,404.075,399.457,230.963" colors="blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,red,blue,blue,orange,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue" height="400", min="0" max="600"] [ichart headers="ID,MB/s" htitle="Write 512kb"  labels="ASUS Hyper Express 256GB,takeMS UTX-PO318,OCZ Vertex 460 240GB,Patriot Blaze 240GB,AMD Radeon R7 SSD 240GB,Crucial MX100 512GB,Patriot Pyro 240GB,Intel DC S3500 480GB,OCZ ARC 100 240 GB,OCZ Vector 256GB,Intel SSD335 240GB,OCZ Vertex 450 256GB,Corsair Force LX 256GB,Intel SSD 730 240GB,OCZ Vector 150 120GB" values="723.09,535.532,532.874,528.936,522.980,511.500,510.255,477.711,430.626,417.759,388.361,369.216,306.153,290.196,195.265" colors="blue,blue,blue,red,blue,blue,orange,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue,blue" height="400", min="0" max="730"] Ovdje oba diska imaju performanse vrlo slične onima što ih navodi proizvođač, a to ne treba čuditi jer i oni koriste ovaj isti test. I/O Meter Mixed Workload [ichart headers="ID,IOPS" htitle="IOPS Combined"  labels="Patriot Blaze 240GB 256GB @ Database,Patriot Blaze 240GB 256GB @ FileServer,Patriot Blaze 240GB @ Workstation,Patriot Blaze 240GB @ WebServer" values="3291.4,2803.717,4789.141,17258.563" colors="green,red,blue,purple" height="400", min="0" max="18000"] [ichart headers="ID,IOPS" htitle="IOPS Combined"  labels="Patriot Pyro 240GB 256GB @ Database,Patriot Pyro 240GB 256GB @ FileServer,Patriot Pyro 240GB @ Workstation,Patriot Pyro 240GB @ WebServer" values="17823.161,13627.509,15342.538,12100.486" colors="green,red,blue,purple" height="400", min="0" max="18000"] Miješani testovi nam govore kako Phison kontroler i nije baš namijenjen upotrebi u serverskom okruženju, dok je SandForce ovjde postigao solidan rezultat. Ipak, ništa od ovoga nije na razini novih OCZ-ovih kontrolera.

IOMeter (100% Sequential) [ichart headers="ID,IOPS" htitle="Total I/O per second"  labels="Patriot Pyro 240GB,Intel SSD335 240GB,OCZ ARC 100 240 GB,OCZ Vertex 450 256GB,Corsair Force LX 256GB,OCZ Vertex 460 240GB,Patriot Blaze 240GB,OCZ Vector 256GB,OCZ Vector 150 120GB,AMD Radeon R7 SSD 240GB,takeMS UTX-PO318,Intel SSD 730 240GB,Intel DC S3500,Crucial MX100 512GB,ASUS Hyper Express 256GB" values="69735.62,31488.38,29143.67,22619.5,21536.75,16280.48,15564.75,15024.29,11842.07,11499.85,10953.99,8074.68,4362.89,2558.40,1827.96" colors="yellow,purple,purple,purple,purple,purple,blue,purple,purple,purple,purple,purple,purple,purple,purple" height="400", min="0" max="70000"] [ichart headers="ID,MB/s" htitle="Total MB per second"  labels="Patriot Pyro 240GB,Intel SSD335 240GB,OCZ ARC 100 240 GB,OCZ Vertex 450 256GB,Corsair Force LX 256GB,OCZ Vertex 460 240GB,Patriot Blaze 240GB,OCZ Vector 256GB,AMD Radeon R7 SSD 240GB,OCZ Vector 150 120GB,takeMS UTX-PO318,Intel SSD 730 240GB,Intel DC S3500,Crucial MX100 512GB,ASUS Hyper Express 256GB" values="142.82,61.5,59.69,44.18,44.11,33.34,31.88,29.34,23.55,23.13,22.43,16.54,8.52,5.24,3.74" colors="yellow,purple,purple,purple,purple,purple,blue,purple,purple,purple,purple,purple,purple,purple,purple" height="400", min="0" max="150"] [ichart headers="ID,milisecond" htitle="Maximum I/O Response time (ms)"  labels="Patriot Blaze 240GB,Intel SSD335 240GB,Intel SSD 730 240GB,OCZ Vector 256GB,Intel DC S3500 480GB,Patriot Pyro 240GB,OCZ Vector 150 120GB,Crucial MX100 512GB,takeMS UTX-PO318,OCZ Vertex 450 256GB,AMD Radeon R7 SSD 240GB,Corsair Force LX 256GB,OCZ ARC 100 240 GB,ASUS Hyper Express 256GB" values="10.422,22.0971,26.4292,35.325,36.7278,47.76,235.3631,256.978,258.9182,266.9978,615.7187,740.43,826.606,5372.0625" colors="blue,purple,purple,purple,purple,yellow,purple,purple,purple,purple,purple,purple,purple,purple" height="400", min="0" max="5400"] Kao i uvijek, SF ima izvrsne sekvencijalne performanse, dok se Phison solidno snašao u sredini grafa. Kod maksimalnog vremena pristupa je situacija obrnuta i ovdje Phison ima najbolji rezultat. IOMeter (100% Random) [ichart headers="ID,IOPS" htitle="Total I/O per second"  labels="OCZ ARC 100 240 GB,OCZ Vertex 450 256GB,OCZ Vertex 460 240GB,AMD Radeon R7 SSD 240GB,Intel DC S3500 480GB,Patriot Pyro 240GB,OCZ Vector 150 120GB,Intel SSD 730 240GB,Intel SSD335 240GB,OCZ Vector 256GB,Patriot Blaze 240GB,Crucial MX100 512GB,Corsair Force LX 256GB,takeMS UTX-PO318,ASUS Hyper Express 256GB" values="50952.59,34849.68,29942.11,22810.03,21482.09,21095.49,21021.24,20058.88,17700.45,15847.96,13442.98,11732.34,9161.18,7232.83,963.96" colors="purple,purple,purple,purple,purple,yellow,purple,purple,purple,purple,blue,purple,purple,purple,purple" height="400", min="0" max="51000"] [ichart headers="ID,MB/s" htitle="Total MB per second"  labels="OCZ ARC 100 240 GB,OCZ Vertex 450 256GB,OCZ Vertex 460 240GB,AMD Radeon R7 SSD 240GB,Patriot Pyro 240GB,Intel DC S3500 480GB,Intel SSD 730 240GB,OCZ Vector 150 120GB,Intel SSD335 240GB,OCZ Vector 256GB,Patriot Blaze 240GB,Crucial MX100 512MB,Corsair Force LX 256GB,takeMS UTX-PO318,ASUS Hyper Express 256GB" values="104.35,68.07,51.08,46.71,43.2,41.96,41.08,41.06,34.57,30.95,27.53,24.03,18.7,14.81,1.97" colors="purple,purple,purple,purple,yellow,purple,purple,purple,purple,purple,blue,purple,purple,purple,purple" height="400", min="0" max="105"] [ichart headers="ID,milisecond" htitle="Maximum I/O Response time (ms)"  labels="Intel DC S3500 480GB,Intel SSD 730 240GB,Patriot Pyro 240GB,Intel SSD335 240GB,Crucial MX100 512GB,OCZ Vector 150 120GB,Corsair Force LX 256GB,OCZ Vertex 460 240GB,OCZ Vector 256GB,OCZ Vertex 450 256GB,takeMS UTX-PO318,AMD Radeon R7 SSD 240GB,OCZ ARC 100 240 GB,Patriot Blaze 240GB,ASUS Hyper Express 256GB" values="6.2752,13.920,71.93,85.6501,101.1356,233.246,266.986,344.7431,345.4264,618.4861,620.4432,738.43,832.787,894.7,2917.8303" colors="purple,purple,yellow,purple,purple,purple,purple,purple,purple,purple,purple,purple,purple,blue,purple" height="400", min="0" max="3000"] Nasumične I/O performanse su ponovno solidne za SandForce disk, dok je Phison disk pri dnu.

Patriot je već nekoliko godina prisutan i na SSD tržištu ali tu svakako nisu tehnološki lider. Od četiri serije SSD-a, tri koriste Phison kontrolere, a jedna stari SandForce. Za sve se serije može reći kako spadaju u srednju i nižu ponudu na tržištu i kako su relativno konkurentne cijenom, no ne i performansama. Blaze se pokazao kao brži i sposobniji disk od Pyro-a pa svakako njemu ide preporuka za kupovinu, a uz to se prodaje i po nižoj cijeni. Pyro 240GB košta oko 1.300 kn, dok Blaze 240GB košta oko 1.100 kn. Ipak, da je naš novac u pitanju on bi otišao na OCZ-ov Vertex 460 zbog viših i konzistentnijih I/O performansi.