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Patriot announced their Wildfire line of SSDs in March, in line with the SandForce SF-2281 release. At the time of the announcement Patriot planned on disabling RAISE on their drives, which essentially gives the user a more capacity, in exchange for a performance hit of around 10%. They've changed course here instead opting for enabling RAISE, releasing SSDs with 120GB and 240GB capacities, instead of 128GB and 256GB. They also made a radical change in NAND, instead of 25nm NAND as was announced, Patriot has gone with 32nm Toshiba toggle NAND for the Wildfire, similar to what's found in the enthusiast SSD class leading OCZ Vertex 3 Max IOPS.

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