Patriot PS-100 Solid State Drive

[micul]

I want to buy this drive, and setup a raid 0. According to this guy the drives are acceptable: http://www.servethehome.com/?p=206
http://www.servethehome.com/?p=219

Are these drives any good?

[earls]

I did the same thing and am getting ~350MB/s in RAID0. I'll let you know how stability goes in a few weeks.

[genpix]

Originally Posted by earls

Unfortunately, that chipset is SATA I, so you'll never get the full potential from your drive. 20MB/s however is ridiculous... Verify which driver your sata controller chipset is using.

beeeep!
Wrong answer.

P965, either desktop or mobile versions, confirms to SATA II standard (unless you believe that Intel lies in their datasheet).
take a look here, for instance:
http://www.intel.com/Assets/PDF/datasheet/313056.pdf
where Intel tells about SATA speed 3.0 Gb/s for this chipset.

[genpix]

Originally Posted by SiDNS

There's no difference between running PS-100 in AHCI or IDE mode. Also no difference between Windows7-64 built-in drivers or any version of Intel drivers (intel inf).
What else can I try to change? (tweaking system also doesn't help)

Just FYI:
I tried three different chipset driver versions:
1) from Microsoft
2) from HP (download web-site for HP models)
3) from Intel web-site (based on the date, it's the most recent version of the driver)

Result is the same.
My conclusion: it's not the driver (because the same driver works just fine on desktop; my desktop has the same P965 chipset btw).

It's either HP BIOS problem (which is the worse case scenario, cause I don't believe HP is going to do anything about that), or PS-100's incompatibility with mobile version of P965 chipset (Patriot told me in one of e-mails that it's possible, and they are looking into it).

Though, I can not verify the latter (cause I don't have access to non-HP laptop with PM965 chipset).

[bats]

Originally Posted by genpix

beeeep!
P965, either desktop or mobile versions, confirms to SATA II standard (unless you believe that Intel lies in their datasheet).

yes, the chipset may support sata2 speeds, but that doesn't mean the laptop will. quite a number of laptops have their sata2 interfaces restricted to sata1 speeds. this was never really an issue before because laptop hard drives weren't fast enough to hit the 'speed limit'.

that said, however, those benchmark numbers do look abnormally low.

does your laptop's bios have any settings related to sata? like 'sata mode' or 'sata power management'?

[micul]

Originally Posted by earls

I did the same thing and am getting ~350MB/s in RAID0. I'll let you know how stability goes in a few weeks.

What controller do you have?
Is Garbage Collector working?

[earls]

AMD SB750 Controller.

Most unfortunately, I RMA'd the drives back to Newegg to be replaced as I am having terrible stability issues.

HDTune will not run with the error "Read Error Test Aborted".

I tried the "error tab" in HDTune, it found a few bad sectors, then like half of the drive sectors went red and the computer restarted. It rebooted, but my screen resolution was reset and then it locked up or something... I dunno.

Instead of trying to figure out which of the two drives were dying or causing the problem, I just sent both back to be replaced. I will follow up when they are received.

My mobo has two SATA3 connectors which I tried the drives on, but I'm not sure if the drives support it or a drive error would not let me format the drives in Windows 7 setup.

Showed up fine and partitioned fine, but refused to format.

[nt300]

Now I am having issues with my Patriot PS-100 SSD 32GB drives in Raid 0. All was running great under Windows 7 Ultimate x64. Then one day I get the Blue screen of death, now I can't boot, install windows, format etc. whether they are in raid 0 or not, same issues.

It seems as though the drives are dead, but they show up, they just won't install windows or format at all.

I've contacted tech support, I hope I get a response ASAP. Maybe they need a firmware update or something?

[earls]

Man, I'm so glad I'm not the only one. Your symptoms mirror mine exactly.

[genpix]

Originally Posted by earls

Man, I'm so glad I'm not the only one.

huh?
did you want to say that you are glad that others have a problem with these drives as well ???

gee...
I hoped that I was the only one complaining about PS-100 drives. And I was glad that I was the only one (dispite the fact that some people asked me to shut up already).

But to be glad that others are f..ed up as well is probably too much