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Patriot TORQX SSD On OCZ's Tail
Jul/12/09 13:33 Filed in: Patriot SSD
OCZ ain't the only game in town for solid-state drives. Patriot Memory is aggressively nipping at their heels for mind and market share - and is gunning after OCZ's latest offerings by countering with the Patriot Torqx solid-state drives
using the same 'Barefoot' Indilinx controller for comparable performance to OCZ's highly respected Vertex lineup.
As this consolidation in the flash memory drive market continues - and as OEM components used in the marjority of drives becomes more common -- Price, and not 'me too' performance will differentiate variosu brands of drives. Performance will flatline somewhat because they're using basically the same hardware, so a leveling of the playing field will characterize the SSD drive market in late 2009. Several companies are now using the Indilinx or Samsung controller chipset - and regardless of brand - you'll love the smooth performance!
On the low-end, JMicron is revising it's somewhat dissapointing controller chip with a redesign and larger cache. Should help with occasional SSD Write issues and noticeably improve SSD performance on the value end of the market.
using the same 'Barefoot' Indilinx controller for comparable performance to OCZ's highly respected Vertex lineup.As this consolidation in the flash memory drive market continues - and as OEM components used in the marjority of drives becomes more common -- Price, and not 'me too' performance will differentiate variosu brands of drives. Performance will flatline somewhat because they're using basically the same hardware, so a leveling of the playing field will characterize the SSD drive market in late 2009. Several companies are now using the Indilinx or Samsung controller chipset - and regardless of brand - you'll love the smooth performance!
On the low-end, JMicron is revising it's somewhat dissapointing controller chip with a redesign and larger cache. Should help with occasional SSD Write issues and noticeably improve SSD performance on the value end of the market.
