Patriot Inferno 2.5" 120GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) PI120GS25SSDR

Pros: FAST! Easy to install Patriot tech support available on first call

Cons: I am surprised that a company the caliber of Patriot does NOT make any type of 3rd party TRIMM utility or garbage collection utility for use with XP , as OCZ and intel have done. I can see where a utility as such would be a real plus

Overall Review: Recomend

Pros: Very fast, works great in my 2010 unibody macbook pro

Cons: Mounting screws screw in through the body of the SSD, and there are very few threads to hold the screws in place. One of the screws from the original mac hard drive was not fully held in place and could not be tightened. The drive was still held tightly in place given the design of the mac's mounting system, but it is unacceptable to have such a design flaw in such an expensive device. They should place an extra fitting behind the screw holes, with more threads.

Overall Review: This drive is insanely fast. The mac fully boots in 10 seconds, programs (even very big ones like outlook) open almost instantly, and the drive saves quite a bit of power. I should deduct one egg for the mounting screw issue, but since it is still held in place tightly, I'm not going to. But I hope the company addresses this.

Pros: Very, very quick. Compared to spinning platter HDDs, that is...this is just my 2nd SSD, but it's world's faster than my first one.

Cons: Price, but even that's not terrible after the rebate.

Overall Review: I didn't really imagine how much of an improvement in speed -- booting and starting programs -- this SSD would make over even a fast HDD, but it's truly incredible. If you're building a new machine and can afford an extra $200 or so, this is money well spent.

Pros: Fast, quick support response easy to install Made for Win7

Cons: This drive is NOT for anyone still using XP or intend to use XP. As there is no trim (garbage collection) in XP and Patriot does NOT make a toolkit -like program as the other manf do - to perform the TRIM function or the OS Alignment when installing Xp. Ie Intel and some others

Pros: Flawless operation and durability. Despite my friends' reluctance to get an ssd due to fears of reliability. These new ssd's with SandForce chips are extremely reliable. I have had zero problems with mine. Near-instantaneous load times for games like KOTOR, GRID (which is extremely nice for all the race restarts I do), Bioshock, Portal, HL2. Metro 2033 takes about 5 sec. to load levels. Music tranfers from flash drives to the ssd take about 10 sec per gigabyte. I love it.

Cons: Not a big difference in boot time. It still takes around 30 sec. My guess is that you will only notice a difference if you have a lot of programs that load when you boot. I don't. HOWEVER, in the past, my boot times have always gradually gone up from the system registry getting bogged-down from old data. I have been booting with this drive for nearly a year and have noticed no change in boot times whatsoever. I use Windows 7 x64. GTA IV still takes about 15-20 sec to load a file. I hate hate how inefficient the pc version of this title is. Crysis is another: map loads are around 30 sec. Which is fine. Crysis got boring in about a day, anyway. I couldn't even beat it due to extreme linearity.

Overall Review: Online multiplayer games like BFBC2 will not benefit from this drive. Loading times and gameplay lag still result from web connection bottlenecking. SATA II is still sufficient for this drive. I have a motherboard with SATA III (Asus P7P55D-E), but when these connections are in use, the pci express 2.0 slot runs in x8 mode (half-bandwidth as x16). I have the ssd plugged into a SATA II port and have noticed no difference.

Pros: Easy to install, fast boot and shutdown

Cons: none

Overall Review: Why are you reading this? Just get it, you will not be disappointed with the performance of this SSD. This is the best way to add that boost you were searching!!! IMPORTANT: verify that you have TRIM enabled after install this, disable indexing and never the defragment an SSD.

Pros: Deprived myself of SSD due to cost. Researched for a week between OCZ, Intet, Adata and Patriot. Bought Patriot and have no regret doing the purchase. Might buy another one.

Cons: none so far

Pros: I got this SSD for my Alienware M11x, and must say, I'm extremely happy with my purchase. It benchmarks higher than my gaming rig which has 2 10000RPM Veloci Raptors in a RAID0 array. Install was easy, hassle free, and flawless. With the rebate this was a very good deal on this part, too. I've been in the market for an Sandforce powered SSD for a while, and have seen this model (still) going for over $300.00. Did I mention this thing is crazy fast? Thanks to newegg.com for the great price and speedy delivery!

Cons: None really. Except they appear to now be sold out.

Overall Review: More storage space would've been nice.