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Conclusion:
The Warp SSD drive from Patriot, a company well known primarily for their memory modules, has been quite successful. Aside from a few minor quirks, Patriot has made one of the fastest hard drives we have EVER reviewed. This drive survived the trip to CES where in addition to our normal barrage of benchmarks, it withstood traveling to and from Las Vegas and being carried around while subjected to an above normal amount of bumping and jostling. Believe us when we say that durability is top notch and that normal hard drives would take a beating with this kind of travel. We have a sick curiosity as to what exactly it would take to make this drive stop functioning. As far as power consumption goes, it does use less than a normal hard drive, but during our testing we found the gain in battery life to be minimal or about 10 minutes at most. The PE128GS25SSDR also won't break the bank, with a street price of approximately $275 at the time of this writing. It is much cheaper than similar specification hard drives, and will make a great addition if you need the speed. Even though the drive is sized for a laptop, there is no reason why you can't install it in a desktop. They make 2.5" to 3.5" adapters for this kind of thing. There are also cases that natively support 2.5" drives like the NZXT Whisper that we reviewed. Not to mention you can claim your machine has a warp drive. Engage.....