CES 2015: Patriot Lights Up SSD Space with High Capacity Ignite Series

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Go big (capacity) or go home

Now that it no longer requires taking out a second mortgage to fund a solid state drive upgrade, maybe we'll start seeing an influx of high capacity SSDs. Is that too much to ask? Not of Patriot Memory, which arrived at the Consumer Electronics Show with its new and capacious Ignite line of a SATA 6Gbps SSD products. And for good measure, the company also brought along a couple of new USB flash drives, which we'll get to in a moment.
Patriot's Ignite line comes in just two capacities -- 480GB and 960GB. Either one is big enough to run an operating system and several programs and games, though we'd still advise sweeping all those RAW vacation photos and high definition videos over to a storage drive (long live the mechanical hard drive, right?).
Armed with a new Phison S10 controller and SATA 6Gbps interface, Patriot's Ignite line boasts sequential read and write speeds of up to 560MB/s and 545MB/s, respectively. We've seen higher speed ratings in the SATA 6Gbps category, though not by much.
"These are some of the fastest drives that we have had in our lab," Said Les Henry, VP of Engineering at Patriot. "As you can see we are able to advertise some of the fastest sequential speeds in the market for these capacities. We were able to hit scores above 1000 using the AS SSD benchmark test with these drives."
Patriot says you'll be able to purchase its Ignite SSDs this month with attractive MSRPs set at $215 (480GB) and $405 (960GB).

Moving on, Patriot also rolled out its Supersonic Magnum 2 and Supersonic Rage 2 USB 3.0 flash drives. Starting with the Magnum 2, it will be available in "extreme capacities," otherwise known as 256GB and 512GB, with maximum read and write speeds of up to 400MB/s and 300MB/s, respectively.
As for the Supersonic Rage 2, it will offer the same performance metrics but come in 128GB and 256GB capacities. It also sports a more compact design.
Both will be available in February -- no word yet on price.
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