Patriot Memory today announced it is now shipping their new Wildfire series solid-state drives powered by a new SandForce SSD processor. The Wildfire series utilizes the new SandForce SF-2200 processor enabling it to shatter previous SSD performance records with up to a 555MB/s sequential read, up to 520MB/s sequential write speeds and up to 85K 4K random write IOPS, all backed by a SATA 6.0 Gb/s interface.

The Patriot Wildfire series SSDs ship with the latest 3.1.9 firmware, which the company claims that its has been found to be bug free, and do not fall within the recent recall due to failed drives. In addition the Wildfire series features a standard 2.5-inch form factor for compatibility with notebooks and select desktops. A 2.5-inch to 3.5-inch mounting bracket is included with the Patriot Wildfire for compatibility with standard hard drive mounting.

The new Patriot Wildfire series SSDs includes 120GB & 240GB capacities, with larger 480GB to be available soon.