The Blast 240GB 2.5 SATA SSD Drive from Patriot is built with a SATA III 6Gb/s interface that is backwards compatible with SATA II 3Gb/s. The Blast SSD has transfer read speeds of up to 560 MB/s and write speeds of up to 490 MB/s. Measured at 7mm high in a 2.5" form factor the Blast fits into most Ultrabooks, laptops, or desktop PCs.
This SSD features end-to-end data path protection (ETEP), wear-leveling, garbage collection, smart ECC, smart refresh, flush technology, and smart flush technology. The Blast SSD is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows, 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Mac OS X, and Linux systems.
Phison S10 Series controller
256MB DRAM cache
SATA III 6Gb/s and SATA II 3Gb/s compatible
TRIM support (OS dependent)
End-to-end data path protection (ETEP)
Advanced garbage collection
Smart ECC and smart refresh