Maximum PC: Patriot Memory on Monday fleshed out its solid state drive lineup with the introduction of the Ignite Series. The Ignite is a line of M.2 SATA SSDs that Patriot says is intended for portable devices such as ultrabooks, notebooks, and ultra-compact PCs, or mini PCs as they're also called (think along the lines of Intel's NUC and Zotac's Zbox systems). The obvious benefit here is faster boot times from a piece of hardware that's about the size of a stick of bubble gum.
pricing is on point, but I would like to see a performance variant that uses 4x pci-e lanes with 2000+ MB/s sequential read times to compete with Samsungs SM951. I have the Samsung XP941 at 1000+ MB/s and only uses 2 PCI-E lanes and I want to upgrade. I really want to see more competition in the high end of the m.2 scene.
Reasonable pricing and a great upgrade for a laptop, IMHO.