Patriot Memory has released a new family of SSDs, the Pyro SE. If this sounds a little familiar, Patriot released the Pyro SSD in early August. What’s different this time around you might be asking yourself? The Pyro SE gets synchronous NAND, which must mean the original Pyro has asynchronous NAND, Patriot never released that particular spec sheet item. The Pyro SE leverages a SandForce SF-2281 controller and SATA 6 Gb/s interface to deliver read speeds up to 550 MB/s and writes up to 520 MB/s.
Patriot Memory has released a new family of SSDs, the Pyro SE. If this sounds a little familiar, Patriot released the Pyro SSD in early August. What’s different this time around you might be asking yourself? The Pyro SE gets synchronous NAND, which must mean the original Pyro has asynchronous NAND, Patriot never released that particular spec sheet item. The Pyro SE leverages a SandForce SF-2281 controller and SATA 6 Gb/s interface to deliver read speeds up to 550 MB/s and writes up to 520 MB/s.
Patriot Pyro SE Specs
- 120GB, & 240GB capacities
- SandForce SF-2281 SSD processor
- SATA 6.0 Gbps interface
- Up to 550MB/s sequential read speeds
- Up to 520MB/s sequential write speeds
- Maximum 4K random write: 85,000 IOPS
- TRIM Support
Pricing and Availability
The Patriot Pyro SE SSDs should be shipping soon in 120GB and 240GB capacities. Suggested pricing was not announced, though it was referred to as "very aggressive" in the press release.
