Sequential writes were even worse with the Pyro delivering 146MB/s, roughly half the HyperX’s speed. Adding a second drive for RAID0 only boosted performance by 47%, which was still behind the m4 and 510 Series. Random 512K reads again put the Pyro head to head with the Kingston SSDNow V+ 100. However, this meant that it provided less than half the performance of the HyperX and Vertex 3. Even with a 70% improvement, the pair of Pyros remained a little over 20% behind Kingston and OCZ’s premium offerings. The story doesn’t change when examining 512K writes, as the Pyro barely beat Kingston’s SSDNow V+ with a throughput of 146MB/s, and the RAID0 setup was trounced by a majority of Patriot’s single drive competitors. In an unusual result, the RAID0 Pyros doubled the performance of a single unit, delivering a transfer speed of 226MB/s, a fraction slower than the RealSSD C300 and not incredibly far behind the HyperX, either. When measuring random write 4K-QD32 performance, the Pyro hit 142MB/s and that jumped by 50% to 213MB/s in RAID0.
