Today we have a very exciting product to unbox. This is the Pyro SE. And hold on,
wait. Before you guys say SE stands for slow edition, which has happened to us
so many times in the PC industry. I mean, think back. Even going back as far
as like Radeon 9000 series cards, SE
meant slow edition or well, you know that other four-letter word that starts
with S edition. No, this time it means
special edition in a way that is not like special. It means special like
faster. So the difference between the Pyro and the Pyrose SE is that instead
of using async flash, which would make
the regular Pyro equivalent to something like an Agility 3, so that is as pretty
much as low-end as it gets in terms of Sanforce 2281 uh SATA 3 6 GB per second
drives. The Pyrose SE uses synchronized flash, which gives you essentially
better IOPS performance as well as faster sustained reads and writes. So,
here we're not quite done with the packaging just yet. So, what does
Patriot have to say for themselves? These are pretty hoham sort of things to
call out about this drive. I think the stuff on the back is actually better.
MLC architecture means we're using MLC flash. Um, I might have said synchronous
flash, but okay. SATA 3 technology. Okay, that's good. 2 and 12 in form
factor. But here, here's all the good stuff. Okay. Low power consumption. Yes.
SATA 3 shock and vibration resistant, which all SSDs are. Silent operation,
which all SSDs are, and free technical support, which not all SSDs are. So,
that's kind of cool to have. And you got a three-year warranty. And let's go
ahead and see what else we got in here. We got a little booklet, which shows us
okay, some like um specs of the drive.
Some other more different specs of the drive.
Um hm, that's interesting. No, I think
these are quite generic. Hey, look at that. Installation instructions for computer systems, desktops, and servers.
And installation instructions for notebooks. So, let's go ahead and take the drive out. This guy is capable of
550 megabytes per second reads, 520 megabytes per second writes, and 85,000
random 4K IOPS. So, this is, like I said before, is a very high-end SSD. Uh, the
only way to go higher end is to get something like a Patriot Wildfire, which
has toggle mand. So, those are the tshiba flash chips. This is using I
can't actually open it up and find out which synchronous flash they're using,
but it would be using some kind of a synchronous flash because guys, there
are three grades of flash chips. So, right now in terms of sandforce
controllers, there's only the 2281 on the desktop side. That's pretty much it.
So, we've got only really one controller. And then from there, it
comes down to the quality of the flash chips. So, async flash is the cheapest
flash. That's the flash that is going to give you slightly less performance.
Synchronous flash is more expensive flash than async and it comes with
slightly higher performance. And then finally at the very top end are toggle
chips which are these special tshiba ones that are even faster. U but the
difference between toggle chips and sync flash is not as pronounced as the
difference between sync flash and async flash. So uh this represents kind of the
the bang for the buck option in the middle. And it's pretty much standard
looking as far as SSDs go. So, you got your mounting holes on the side. You got
your mounting holes on the bottom, depending on how your notebook mounts to drive. Remember, you can use this in
pretty much any notebook, including uh MacBooks, uh desk, rather, uh Windows
PCs. There's your SATA power. There's your SATA data. So, what we're actually
going to be using this drive for is for some Fraps recording. So, uh that was
why we went ahead and unboxed this. We're also going to be looking at using
two of these drives. So, we have two. I'm going to use the box to represent
one of the drives and the drive to represent another one. We're going to run them in RAID and we're going to look
at what kind of a performance difference we can get using a dual SSD RAID array
versus a larger hard drive rate array in terms of the read and write pure
throughput performance we can get for users who for example might be working
with very large files uh whether it's video editing or image editing. So
that's one of the other things that's going to be upcoming on my NCIXCOM
channel with this particular drive. So, thank you for checking out this unboxing
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