The Patriot Hellfire M.2 480GB Review: Phison NVMe Tested
by Billy Tallis on February 10, 2017 8:30 AM ESTAnandTech Storage Bench - Light
Our Light storage test has relatively more sequential accesses and lower queue depths than The Destroyer or the Heavy test, and it's by far the shortest test overall. It's based largely on applications that aren't highly dependent on storage performance, so this is a test more of application launch times and file load times. This test can be seen as the sum of all the little delays in daily usage, but with the idle times trimmed to 25ms it takes less than half an hour to run. Details of the Light test can be found here.
Filled or not, the Patriot Hellfire manages to keep pace with the Intel SSD 750 and provide a higher average data rate than any SATA SSD can manage on the Light test.
The average service times of the Patriot Hellfire are slightly worse than the Intel SSD 750 and the more recent NVMe SSDs, but are still better than the Intel SSD 600p or any SATA SSD.
Samsung's 960 PRO and EVO are the only NVMe SSDs that don't show a significant increase in high-latency outliers when filled. The Patriot Hellfire's performance is essentially tied with the Plextor M8Pe and is comparable to most other MLC NVMe SSDs.
The power efficiency advantage of a good SATA SSD is very clear on this test, as the Patriot Hellfire and most other PCIe SSDs use two to three times the energy to complete the Light test.
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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.....