The Patriot Hellfire M.2 480GB Review: Phison NVMe Tested
by Billy Tallis on February 10, 2017 8:30 AM ESTAnandTech Storage Bench - The Destroyer
The Destroyer is an extremely long test replicating the access patterns of very IO-intensive desktop usage. A detailed breakdown can be found in this article. Like real-world usage and unlike our Iometer tests, the drives do get the occasional break that allows for some background garbage collection and flushing caches, but those idle times are limited to 25ms so that it doesn't take all week to run the test.
We quantify performance on this test by reporting the drive's average data throughput, a few data points about its latency, and the total energy used by the drive over the course of the test.
The Patriot Hellfire's average data rate on The Destroyer is slightly better than the fastest SATA SSD, but it is clearly the slowest MLC NVMe SSD in this bunch, and half the speed of Samsung's best.
The Patriot Hellfire squanders some of the latency advantages of NVMe, with an average service time that is sitting in the middle of the gap between SATA SSDs and other MLC NVMe SSDs.
The Patriot Hellfire ties with the aging Intel SSD 750 for the number of latency outliers beyond 100ms, but at the 10ms level it is only barely ahead of the best SATA drive and has almost three times as many outliers as the next slowest NVMe SSD.
As with most NVMe SSDs, the Patriot Hellfire burns substantially more energy over the course of The Destroyer than any good SATA SSD. Samsung remains the only company to deliver a PCIe SSD that is on par with SATA SSDs for this power usage metric.
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bug77 - Friday, February 10, 2017 - link
Patriot Minuteman! :DYaldabaoth - Friday, February 10, 2017 - link
Perhaps they are referring to the thermal characteristics.lmcd - Saturday, February 11, 2017 - link
"Logged in just to upvote this" -- comment systems in 2000extide - Saturday, February 11, 2017 - link
ehh back in that era "upvoting" wasn't a thing -- people would just say "this" or "x2"romrunning - Friday, February 10, 2017 - link
Looking at its performance, they should have named it the "Campfire"! :)BurntMyBacon - Monday, February 13, 2017 - link
I'm going to go with "Stinger" ... to keep consistent with the missile theme.Who is it that's getting stung again?
random2 - Sunday, February 12, 2017 - link
You got it. Seems kind of odd that a teck company marketing a retail product would use a naming convention associated with weapons being used around the world to kill and maim people. Wanna keep the politics away from your business? I vote with my dollar.Holliday75 - Monday, February 13, 2017 - link
We should petition the Pentagon to request they stop this practice of buying weapons with mean names as well. The Hellfire seems like a great platform, but we do not like the name. Call it Fluffy Kittens and we'll purchase 10,00 of them.Stas - Monday, February 20, 2017 - link
triggered?Gothmoth - Friday, February 10, 2017 - link
samsung all the way.. this stuff is just for cheapos.....