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today I have a product that's Making Waves right now and it's kind of ironic

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cuz it's called a wildfire so how could it make waves waves are made of water

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makes no sense at all but what I mean by

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Making Waves is that the internets are collectively very excited about this

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little product so this is the Wildfire SATA 3 SSD from Patriot this is is the

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120 gig version although it is available in other capacities let's go ahead and

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look at the side of the package look at the back of the package so what do they have to say for themselves it's a 2 and

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1/2 in form factor low power consumption say to three compatible okay good shock

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and Vibra vibration resistant it better be silent operation once again it better

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be and free technical support okay that's good to know on the side we see

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nothing on the bottom we see nothing really oh oh package coming apart here

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fix that actually it doesn't matter all right so we've got a little window at

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the front let's open that up ooh okay

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well here's where all the interesting stuff is oh that's kind of interesting look at that they give you a little map

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of all of the uh the pin notes used for the power and the signals on the on the

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drive this is like a schematic of the drive that's kind of neat I've never

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seen that included for the consumers unless you look pretty deep into the

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manufacturer website or like the SATA

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standards website okay installation instructions here for desktops and

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notebooks as well as some information about the drive so let's have a look

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look okay so it's available in 120 240 and 480 gig capacities it supports raid

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01 and 0+1 if you use two drives although it would support any raid level

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you desire if you use more uh data retention is up to 5 years at 25°

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meantime between failure is 1,500,000 hours it does support smart Drive

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monitoring and its power consumption is less than 5 Watts at Max operational

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Peak Running okay environmental this or that

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Operation Shock certification you know it's funny that they don't include any

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performance metrics on the packaging because really that's what the Wildfire

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is all about this is a second generation

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sand Force controller based drive so the 2281 controller and it uses toggle

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chips oh okay interesting so I guess

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they could pack two drives in one package if they wanted to that's how they designed their packaging but

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they've given me one drive and a uh 3 and 1/2 to 2 and 1/2 in adapter it's

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funny they didn't even say they included an adapter on the outside here seems

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like kind of an oversight doesn't it because that's like a a great selling

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point anyway okay so it uses toggle chips in addition to that advanced

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controller to achieve higher iops so

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that is 4K iops iOS per

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second which means that in a desktop or

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even a server work Lo this drive will perform as fast as anything else out

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there in the market for a single SATA 36

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gbit per second drive because the per

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okay the performance of an SSD breaks down into a few different things you got

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one your controller so the controller dictates what kind of a SATA interface

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you can hook up to it it dictates how much processing it can do on the data

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for example with a sandforce drive and this uses a sand Force controller it's

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actually going to be compressing the data before it writes it to the drive in

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order to save the nand that is The Flash

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from being overly worn out so it actually if it writes one gig of data it

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might actually only physically write 750 megas of data in theoretically some

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types of data are more or less compressible than others so that

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intelligence in the processor allows it to do that on the fly without you ever

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even being aware of it and it's very proven technology at this point so you

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got your controller okay the other thing you have is obviously your interface

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which is pretty much dictated by the controller next you have the flash so if

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you're using a lowquality flash the controller can only read and write so

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fast to it also it's only going to last so long okay the quality of the nand

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affects how long it's going to last as well as the speed so this is using the

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fastest nand out there right now so that is why in terms of thorough put you're

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not going to see a drive like this rated for more megabytes per second sequential

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than other drives on the market but what you will see is that it is rated for

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better random performance so you know when you're you've got a video editing

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in the background you've got your antivirus running and you get like a an

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MSN message for example which is a very very small piece of data this is going

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to be able to do it more quickly than an SSD that doesn't perform little random

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things as well as this one does so let's

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have a look at the included 3 and 1/2 in to 2 and 1/2 in drive adapter so this is

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a pretty standard one I've seen these a number of times there's like one OEM who

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makes these and everyone including Corsair ocz and I guess Patriot uses

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them so it comes with all the screws you need to mount the SSD to the adapter

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tray and then the adapter tray to your case so let's have a quick close-up look

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at the Wildfire so it's got a great matte black finish on the top which is

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going to look really sharp in your case nice Patriot sticker that's a black

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silver see that's a shiny silver sticker those are more expensive you know you

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got to you got to sort of notice these things okay you got some red on there

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this is also nice too nice little touch you've got kind of a chromed shiny Edge

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going all the way around the drive can you see the flash there like it's quite

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shiny okay on the side you got your standard mounting holes standard

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mounting holes on the other side you got your SATA power and that is a SATA 3 6

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gbit per second data interface back there so thank you for checking out my

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