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More and more storage companies are bumping uglies with SandForce 's most recent SF-2200 controller, the sexy slice of silicon mainly responsible for the ultra-high-speed read and write speeds of today \ advertised' s top shelf Solid State Drives. And if a little late to the party, eventually spark between SandForce \ fly has 's SF-2200 processor and a patriot, igniting the company' s new Wildfire SSD line.

"The Patriot Wildfire is the fastest SSD we've ever published \," says William Lai, Memory Patriot 's product manager. "Although we are a bit late on the market, we have to ensure that the technology was wanted rock-solid. We are confident that with the latest firmware, as Patriot 's reputation for quality and performance second-to- none \. "

Wildfire is the new series is available in 120GB and 240GB capacity with a 480GB model soon, and ship with 2.5-inch to 3.5-inch mounts. Armed with SandForce 's SF-2200 controller chip and a SATA provides 6 Gbps Interface Wildfire line up to 555MB / s sequential read speeds, up to 520MB / s sequential write speed and up to 85,000 4K random write IOPS .

These numbers represent the Wildfire on the front of the class, at least on paper. In addition, Patriot said his Wildfire line "ship with the latest 3.1.9 firmware, as was to be bug-free and do not remember the last fall because of the failed drives."

No pricing information was not yet available.

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