Pros: Very fast for the date they were released. 5 stars for performance. The one remaining working drive is still an excellent performer, 3 years later.

Cons: I bought two of these Torqx drives, 9 days apart. The one drive failed within a few months, but its replacement is still working over 3 years later. The other drive failed within a few weeks. When its replacement also failed a year or so later, Patriot informed me they would be replacing it with a lower performing Warp model, and that there was no other choice open to me.

The failures took place in different computers (PC with MSI motherboard, and Apple MacBook Pro 5,1) during normal use, not during a firmware flash. The inconvenience of the three failures was substantial.

Overall Review: I do not agree with the policy of replacing a drive that failed under warranty with a lower performing model that has a shorter warranty. It has not stopped me buying Patriot USB flash drives, but I get a bitter taste in my mouth when I do.

Pros: Moved my OS to this prooduct and ran my games on it as well. This SSD is smoking fast and would load into games and startup with minimal time.

Cons: After 2 years of use and with out any warning the product simply stopped working. I am working with their RMA department now to get the product replaced/repaired, however Patriot doesn't offer data recovery for their memory. Now I've lost my data and can either pay a separate company to recover the data or just accept the fact that its gone. I am disappointed and will be looking at a different brand for my next SSD.

Pros: I purchased 3 of these (2x64gb, 1 128gb)these and was surprised at the speed, very nice! Too bad they or recyclable every few months for 10 years. This will be a loss of about a month and a half out of the years of needing to reinstall. Thats about 30 to 40 MOTHS of waiting 3weeks every 3 months of an RMA! Thats basically over 2 years of the drive not being with the owner!

Cons: I had 2 failures within 3 months and the third finally failed this week. It has been about 5 months.
Too bad they or recyclable every few months for 10 years. This will be a loss of about a month and a half out of the years of needing to reinstall. Thats about 30 to 40 MOTHS of waiting 3weeks every 3 months of an RMA! Thats basically over 2 years of the drive not being with the owner!

Overall Review: Dear Patriot,

The idea of a warranty is to get the client/customer back up and running so they could look back at it as a experience you as a warranty company saved them from, but at this rate you are simply a hole that our hard earnd money is in with your warranty. We trusted your name, you faith and your faith was so strong, you offered 10 years of a warranty. that doesn't mean we need to be stuck with a drive that is bound to fail due to its make and not its use over a expected given time. So with this 10 year warranty, you have taken my ~$1500 and hijacked it.
I would like to get my money back so I can buy a reliable drive. Would you be willing to do that. And please have some face to reply on this forum, other than directing me to an RMA, or your website for support. Tell the community here, which is likely the strongest reputation holder for you on how you would handle this. Given that I have my receipt and the drives are handled and installed my a A+ cert sys analyst. and

Pros: Really good when it works - fast read / write, low power everything you'd expect from a SSD

Cons: Now after not quite a year of limited use the OS has started to do strange things - random crashes, apps disappearing etc.
Traced it down to corrupted sectors / blocks on the SSD. Ran CHKDSK a few times to clean it up but within hours same again. Finally the BIOS wouldn't even recognize the drive.

Overall Review: I really wanted this drive to work well and be reliable - I was disappointed - now just waiting for an RMA to start the replacement process, but seriously considering ordering an Intel (or other brand) SSD as I doubt I'll be able to trust the replacement drive on a 'mission critical' machine.
This assumes that Patriot stands by their product and provides a replacement in a timely manner.....

Pros: Small, lightweight, quiet, cool, uses very little power.

Cons: Unreliable (failed twice, so far, in 10 months).
Very time-consuming to install properly.
Not at all cost-effective.

My first complaint is that you can't just clone your old drive to this SSD and get proper performance. For proper performance you need proper "alignment", and to achieve that you need to do a clean Windows 7 install. With all the software and settings, that could mean hours to days! So there goes any productivity gain right out the window, right up front. Patriot needs to provide software to 1) clone your old OS drive to this one, and 2) align the installation to yield proper performance. WD has a tool that might work (WDalign), but my Torqx drive died before I could try it.

Overall Review: When I bought this, I was cheering for Patriot and wanted this Torqx to work. And their 10 year guarantee indicated to me that they had faith in their product and were determined to stand behind it. But this is NOT a retail product. It is not even a Beta product. If you are a hobbiest and have lots of time to burn, this may be for you. But if you are looking for reliability and productivity, this is NOT for you.

In Patriot's defence, when my first Torqx failed after about a month, they were helpful and responsive and replaced the unit within about 3 weeks. This time around (about 9 months after the first failure) I have just contacted them so we will see how they respond. I really want Patriot to succeed with this product, but I cannot afford that success to be at my considerable loss of time, money, and convenience.

So now I just want a refund. I don't have the time or patience to deal with this unreliable time-killer anymore.

Pros: was super fast when it worked

Cons: cant update drive firmware without wiping out the drive...seriously. owned 2 drives, ran in raid 0. both failed.

Overall Review: I would be bothered by a bad batch of drives, but i bought these 2 drives months apart & they both failed. Patriot needs to fess up that they screed the pooch on this product and make things right for it's customers. It looks like this product is now discontinued since they're not instock anywhere. Or they just rebranded it and started calling it "Inferno".

Pros: fast

Cons: Unreliable, poor customer support, poor RMA process.

Overall Review: Had this drive for 9 months so far. It died after 2 months, RMA took about 3 weeks. updated firmware and died again after 6 months. Originally bought from patriot cause I never bought anything from them so I thought I would give them a chance. $360 mistake.

Pros: - Fast

Cons: - Unreliable

Overall Review: I've got my PFZ128GS25SSDR in August 2009. In six months of ownership, it corrupted my file system 3 times and caused numerous crashes. Another similar OS installation on the same machine never had any problems. I got tired of the multiple problems caused by the drive and sent it back to Patriot. They replaced it within 2 weeks or so.

The second drive appeared to be better, but after a few months it started causing random crashes again, and now it managed to render my Windows installation almost unusable.

I'm extremely frustrated with this drive and would not recommend it to anyone. I'm seriously considering throwing this on trash can and be done with it.

I've bought a Corsair SSD for a Netbook that I also own and didn't have any problems with it. I do not know what's the difference between these two drives, but it's clear from the statistics that Patriot is doing something terribly wrong here.