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I received my replacement drive from Patriot. Having experienced two failed drives in <12 months already, and no immediate need for the PS-100, I attempted to sell it on eBay. The...

When I upgraded the firmware to 3.0 on the replacement drive, it also became named SATATEST. It did not appear to affect the drive performance or functionality, although it didn't last very long...

The replacement was directly through Patriot Support. FWIW, the systems have experienced zero other hardware faults, and are meticulously maintained (e.g. regular dust mitigation, handled with...

The replacement drive was running v3.x firmware, the original died before v3.x firmware was released.

I bought a PS-100 six months ago. I've had two fail (the original and the replacement). They weren't used in the same computer (original in a desktop, replacement in a notebook that never leaves my...

Here's the benchmarks on my PS-100...

Two weeks of normal use in a dual core Toshiba notebook:

http://www.cpuhack.com/images/ps_100_twoweeks.png

Just after upgrading to firmware v3.00 and...

Mine did the same thing. I'm not worried about it as long it doesn't block future firmware updates.

To Patriot:

Thank you for making firmware v3.00 available. So far, I have measured performance improvements.

Agreed, and I was kidding. No need to insult my poor 30GB PS-100. It's already a couple gigabytes short of it's 32GB advertised size. ;) (kidding again)

Normally, I wouldn't post the results of competitors products on another vendors site. However, as a fellow PS-100 owner that feels shafted, I think it's only fair.

The following is my OCZ Vertex...

Thank you for the official response, and the insight into your firmware qualification process. As your testing cycle is quite long (30 days), I offer the unsolicited advice of providing beta...

Based on the poll results, this seems to be pretty darn isolated for the amount of threads it has created. I do think the Patriot folks have been good about not banning the people that are making a...

I don't think firmware 2.008 is advertised as beta anymore, is it? I know one of their reps. mentioned a beta firmware last month, but they ended up just releasing it as a final version from what I...

It seems to be working well. It was my boot drive in my home desktop until it died. I replaced it with a pair of OCZ Vertex 30GB SSDs in RAID0. That setup continues to be incredibly fast, and was...

I just picked up my replacement PS-100 today. It came with firmware 2.008 preloaded, and thus far it's working fine.

I was really hoping the new firmware would have been available today. I...

Depending on what you paid for it, you might have gotten a fair deal on a decent speed SSD. I don't feel burned for picking up a 32GB on Newegg for $109 in December 2009. That's saying something...

Mine just tanked. :(

It BSOD'ed the system, and it can't complete a CHKDSK from the WinPE environment (my WD 750GB HD in the same system checks out 100%). All access to the PS-100 from a command...

Please add me to the list of those that will try and report on the beta firmware.
I have confirmed that I am at firmware 2.003.

I'm sorry to hear that it does sound like a failed SSD. How was the performance before it died though? I'm intrigued to know how much faster Exchange ran with a decent sized message store like that...

You're using netbook hardware (i.e. WHERE net = running a web browser). Whether it's a netbook, nettop, or a nettop running Windows Home Server (WHS), it's too slow to use as a benchmarking...

http://www.cpuhack.com/images/ps-100_benchmark_2.png

System is:

Windows 7 Home Premium (x64)
Standard SSD configuration changes applied (e.g. No swap file on drive, no prefetch, no superfetch,...