I don’t know precisely what number of M.2 sort problem NVMe SSDs have RGB lighting (it is not many), nonetheless Patriot’s new Viper VPR100 is unquestionably actually certainly one of them. It is also quick, not decrease than on paper, although not fairly as speedy on account of the small handful of drives that leverage the PCI Explicit 4.zero bus.
Not that it factors a lot in the event you’re searching for the best SSD for gaming. PCIe 4.zero drives embody some caveats—they must be paired with an AMD X570 motherboard to revenue from their full velocity capabilities, and even then, you will not see a distinction in gaming versus a PCIe 3.zero SSD.
Even so, the VPR100 SSDs are quick of their very private appropriate. Patriot is providing them in 4 capacities, these being 2TB, 1TB, 512GB, and 256GB. Specs fluctuate a bit by mannequin, and relying on which metric you profit from (Patriot gives sequential examine and write scores from each ATTO and CDM). Sticking with ATTO, that’s the means wherein all of it breaks down:
VPR100 2TB—3,300MB/s examine, 2,900MB/s write VPR100 1TB—3,300MB/s examine, 2,900MB/s write VPR100 512GB—3,300MB/s examine, 2,100MB/s write VPR100 256GB—3,300MB/s examine, 1,000MB/s write Write effectivity type of falls off a cliff on the 256GB mannequin, although by itself, it is nonetheless a whole bunch quick. An honest 2.5-inch SATA SSD, as an illustration, offers up spherical 550MB/s of sequential write effectivity (and will’t go any sooner).
The pace scores are barely absolutely completely totally different than Patriot’s Viper VPN100 SSDs, which lack RGB lighting. There isn’t any degree out of what sort of NAND flash reminiscence chips Patriot is utilizing (almost definitely 3D TLC, if I needed to guess), nonetheless the disparity in specs leads me to ponder the VPR100 is just not the same drive, merely with lights linked. The one technical bit Patriot is sharing is that these SSDs makes use of Phison’s E12 controller.
As for endurance, Patriot charges the 2TB mannequin at 3,115 terabytes written (TBW), the 1TB mannequin at 1,600TBW, the 512GB mannequin at 800TBW, and the 256GB mannequin at 380TBW.
The VPR100 SSDs may be found now direct from Patriot, priced as follows:
The pricing is daring, even after factoring all through the premium for RGB lighting. Whereas there’s not a ton of rivals, Adata’s XPG Spectrix S40G RGB SSDs are priced appropriately beneath the VPR100 assortment appropriate now, with related rated effectivity numbers. Here is a glance:
Probably Patriot’s drives will seemingly be extra competitively priced as shortly as they land at locations like Amazon and Newegg. As of this second, nonetheless, they look like a powerful promote.
After which in any case there are drives like Vital’s P1. It is not an apples-to-apples comparability due to the P1 assortment is slower (2,000MB/s examine, 1,700MB/s write for the 1TB mannequin) and lacks RGB lighting. Nonetheless in relation to bang-for-buck, chances are high you will snag a 1TB P1 SSD for $99.99 on Amazon .
In any occasion, the VPR100 assortment is now in the marketplace and backed by a 5-year guarantee, for anybody .
