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today I have a product that's making waves right now and it's kind of ironic because it's called a wildfire so how could it make waves waves are made of water makes no sense at all but what I mean by making waves is that the Internet's are collectively very excited about this little products so this is the wildfire sata3 SSD from patriot this is the 120 gig version although it is available in other capacities let's go ahead and 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 two and a half inch form factor low power consumption stay the three compatible okay good shock and vibration resistant it better be silent operation once again it better be and free technical support okay that's good to know on the side we see nothing on the bottom we see nothing really notable I could come in a party here six that actually it doesn't matter all right so we've got a little window at the front let's open that up okay well here's where all the interesting stuff is oh that's kind of interesting look at that they give you a little map of all of the pin notes used for the power and the signals on the on the drive this is like a schematic of the drive what's kind of neat I've never seen that included for the consumers unless you look pretty deep into the manufacturer website or like the SATA standards website okay installation instructions here for desktops and notebooks as well as some information about the drive so let's have a look okay so it's available in 120 240 and 480 gig capacities it supports raid 0 1 + 0 + 1 if you use to drive though it would support any raid level you desire if you use more data retention is up to five years at 25 degrees mean time between failure is 1,500,000 hours it does support smart drive monitoring and its power consumption is less than 5 Watts at max operational peak running miss okay environmental this or that operation shock certification you know it's funny that they don't include an performance metrics on the packaging because really that's what the Wildfire is all about this is a second-generation SandForce controller base drive so the 2281 controller and it uses toggle chips oh okay interesting so I guess they could pack two drives in one package if they wanted to that's how they design their packaging but they've given me one drive and a three and a half to two and a half inch adapter it's funny they didn't even say they included an adapter on the outside here seems like kind of an oversight doesn't it because that's like a great selling point anyway okay so uses toggle chips in addition to that advanced controller to achieve higher I ops so that is for KI ops I o'the per second which means that in a desktop or even a server workload this drive will perform as fast as anything else out there in the market for a single SATA three six gigabit per second drive because the provokin the performance of an SSD breaks down into a few different things you got one your controller so the controller dictates what kind of a SATA interface you can hook up to it it dictates how much processing it can do on the data for example with a sand force drive and this uses a sand force controller it's actually going to be compressing the data before it writes it to the drive in order to save the net that is the flash from being overly worn out so actually if it writes one gig of data it might actually only physically write 750 negative data in theoretically some types of data are more or less compressible than others so that intelligence in the processor allows it to do that on the fly without you ever even being aware of it and it's very proving technology at this point so you've got your controller okay the other thing you have is obviously your interface which is pretty much dictated by the controller next you have the flash so if you're using a low quality flash the controller can only read and write so fast to it all so it's only gonna last so long okay the quality of the Nano how long it's going to last as well as the speed so this is using the fastest and end out there right now so that is why in terms of thorough put you're not gonna see a drive like this rated for more megabytes per second sequential than other drives on the market but what you will see is that it is rated for better random performance so you know when you're you've got a video editing in the background you've got your antivirus running and you get like a MSN message for example which is a very very small piece of data this is going to be able to do it more quickly than an SSD that doesn't perform little random things as well as this one does so let's have a look at the included two and a half inch drive adapter so this is a pretty standard one I've seen these a number of times there's like one om who makes these and everyone including Corsair ocz and I guess Patriot uses them so it comes with all the screws you need to mount the SSD to the adapter tray and then the adapter tray to your case so let's have a quick close up look at the Wildfire so it's got a great matte black finish on the top which is gonna look really sharp in your case nice Patriot sticker that's a black silver yes a shiny silver sticker those are more expensive you know you got it you got a sort of notice these things okay you got some red on there this is also nice too nice little touch you've got kind of a chromed shiny edge going all the way around the drive can you see the flash there like it's quite shiny okay on the side you got your standard mounting holes standard mounting holes on the other side you got your SATA power and that is a SATA 3 6 gigabit per second data interface back there so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Patriot Wildfire don't forget to subscribe to - tech tips from our unboxings reviews and other computer videos