SiSoft Sandra:

A synthetic, read only test that gives us some baseline numbers that you can easily compare against.

It is fairly well known that the read performance of SSD's is much faster then that of a spinning drive, this benchmark proves that out.

Everest Ultimate Disk Suite:

Everest has a nice little synthetic test suite for hard drives, unfortunately, this is a read only test.  Here are the images from both drives.

As you can see, the Patriot Warp V.2 out performs once again in the synthetic benchmarks.

Phoronix Suite – IOzone:

IOzone is a nice snap shot of drive performance as it relates to file size, read and write.

Here is where the spinning drive starts to compete; larger file sizes, sustained writing/reading, is a weakness of SSD's. That being said, outside of the 8GB write, all of the results are rather close and not enough for me to give a hands down win to the Seagate. I don't know about you, but I don't write many 8GB files to the drive so...

Phoronix Suite – Audio Encoding:

Some more life like testing with encoding audio, this test uses WAV files stored on the hard drive and encodes them to your favorite flavor; we used MP3, Ogg and FLAC.

As you can see, real world performance is almost identical here, no true cut winner/loser in this list of results.

Phoronix Suite – GnuPG FileEncryption / SSL signatures:

Working in tandem with memory and CPU this tests out the Hard Drives ability to facilitate large file encryptions and handle a slew of small but important SSL signatures.

Here the Patriot performs rather well, my guess would be that the read in of the file to be encrypted is that much faster on the Patriot Warp SSD and compensates for the slight write performance advantage of the spinning Seagate.