Patriot Viper VPN100 512GB M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 x 4 Solid State Drive

This drive has great speed even for the 256GB model. The only downside is it's a little pricier than some others. Not a lot, but if the drive turns out to have good longevity, the extra cost makes it all worth it.Be weary of the heatsink height and the position of the M.2 slot on your board. The board I am using is an MSI B350M Bazooka. The M.2 port is right under the only PCI-e x16 slot. My Sapphire RX580 video card has a 1 inch space between the bottom edge of the pci-e connector and the bottom edge of the video cards shroud. I have about 2 to 3 mm before the shroud touches the SSD heatsink. I tested a couple other video cards with slightly less space than that and they still fit without putting any pressure on the drive.

This M.2 drive is relatively inexpensive and delivers remarkable speeds. Testing with Crystal Disk Mark 6 the read speed is hitting a consistent 34XX MB/s which places the drive right up there with drives costing twice as much. The write speed now caused me some grief initially. The specification says that the write speed can be up to 3000 MB/sec but all I was seeing was 629 MB/s which is terribly slow. I cloned my original drive using Acronis True Image, a procedure that I have used dozens of times, so that I could simply remove the original drive and plug in the new drive. To make a long story short I ended up having to use the powershell and executing a manual TRIM command on the drive to make it work correctly. When the TRIM command finished I was magically seeing write speeds in the 2200 MB/sec range. On the NewEgg site that is the published write speed for the drive so I am happy with the drive performance.The drive has what I consider to be, a large attractive heat sink that keeps the thermals in the 35C to 45C doing normal tasks and large file copy operations. I have not seen any throttling like I have seen with other M.2 drives without any heatsink. At first glance I was concerned that the heatsink might be so tall that it would interfere with the GPU installation, but the concern was unnecessary because there was enough clearance for the drive to fit perfectly. Now if you have a motherboard that has built in heatsinks over the M.2 sockets then you would have to remove the motherboard heatsink to install the drive. You may or may not like the appearance of the drive plugged into your motherboard without the sleek appearance of the motherboard heatsink, but it would totally depend on the motherboard.Initially I was hesitant to purchase the Viper drive because I considered it to be an off brand and I was not sure how reliable it would be. I have purchased two of these drives (a 512GB and a 1TB drive) and as far as I can tell they are comparable with drives costing twice as much. I will certainly consider the Patriot Viper line of drives on future purchases. If you are looking for a decently priced drive with high-end performance then this may be the drive for you.I almost failed to mention that I purchased the drive one day and it was delivered the next (I am a prime member). I do not know how Amazon does it, but I am very pleased with the speed of their deliveries.

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I will not reduce the rating yet since to be upfront it could've just been my fault. I did a GPU upgrade to a 5700 XT, but my power supply was only 550W. Given some forums showed this minimum PSU requirement should be OK, I figured I would have no problems. However, a week after using it I kept having BSODs until this happened. I changed motherboard and changed GPUs and it still was the same. However, upon changing the PSU to an 850W, and using other NVME drives, it was working fine again for my PC. So while I can't rule out chances of this drive dying on its own, considering this NVME drive also uses PCIe alongside the GPU, and it only happened after using the newer GPU, the PSU could've also not been able to handle both of them. Plus even well established brands like WD can have unexpected issues too - I remember the first reviews of the WD SN750 as it came out here on Amazon had one person reporting failure immediately. So I will leave this update just to inform to be prepared.Currently using it for three months as my storage drive for everything, works great so far and expect it will continue to last long until this review is updated.I have seen Patriot be mentioned with a bad reputation from a posts in Anandtech's comments as well as some sellers of PC components here in the Philippines. Their Burst SATA SSD lineup supposedly had a higher rate of failure.I understood that and at the same time thought that given the components they were putting in here were sound - a Phison E12 controller and Toshiba NAND - and that regardless of whether Patriot's reputation of being bad or just OK, it would be even more terrible for Patriot to gimp this SSD and ruin themselves even more, so I felt that taking the risk to get this would be worth it.Plus the cool-looking heatsink and packaging attracted me towards this (although Tom's Hardware did say the heatsink isn't that effective).Keep in mind, the heatsink is non-removable so it will work best ONLY on desktops and if the motherboard you got has no built-in heatsink for M.2 SSDs in the first place. If you'll need a good NVME M.2 SSD without a heatsink, you can just grab either a Silicon Power P34A80, MyDigitalSSD BPX Pro, Addlink S70, Teamgroup MP34, Corsair MP510, PNY CS3030, or any other Phison E12-Toshiba combo drive on the "cheap".Lastly, a word about the photos and video:1) The CrystalDiskMark 6.0.2 benchmark showing 3470.2MB/s read and 3051.8MB/s write (sequential) is with write caching enabled for Windows. This supposedly improves system performance, but does reduce the SSD's endurance by just a small bit.2) The SSD as it is on a B450M Mortar.3) The CrystalDiskMark 6.0.2 benchmark showing 3470.4MB/s read and 653.3MB/s write (sequential) is with write caching disabled for Windows, to reduce caching and improve SSD endurance. I was surprised when this happened and thought it was a possible defect or whatnot of the drive to drop that low in writes, but upon further searches in Google this appears to be normal. In fact the real-world performance for write speeds still gets higher than this.4) Info about the drive from HWInfo itself. Don't have a UPS yet and there was an issue with the wall outlet at home that caused the multiple unsafe shutdowns.5) Video showing me copying a 14.2GB folder of the Vampyr game to a folder named Steam for testing (not the actual Steam folder, I already had it installed, just didn't want to mess with that). The source is a Samsung PM961 128GB SSD inside a Plugable USB-C NVME enclosure. It copied it at 18 seconds, going as high as 843MB/s and hovering around 800MB/s~ for the most part until the end. This is with write caching still disabled which means that CrystalDiskMark's sequential write info don't tell the whole story.

They should've named this Sonic not Viper cuz this M.2 SSD is blazing fast. Loads Witcher 3 and other triple A titles in less than 10 seconds.Bought a second one for another build for the OS; Windows 10 installed in less than 5 minutes and the boot time is literally under1 minute.My biggest complaint is the heatsink, which wasa selling point for me when I added it to my system, in certain scenarios that heat sink could have clearance issues.

The drive is awesome and fast. Replaced an older m.2 drive with this and I am loving the speed increase. The heatsink is a little big and almost hits my video card. I was able to use Clonezilla to copy my old drive to the new drive. If you need to copy your exsiting OS drive to this new M.2 drive I suggest Clonezilla because it's free, been around for a long time, somewhat easy to use, and works with M.2 drives. There are easy to use guides on how to do it.

Pretty easy to install. Just stick it in your mobo and then format it in disk management. If you're older drives are HDDs or SATA SSDs you should clone your system onto it and make it your primary drive as you'll want your OS to be running on the fastest hardware you have.My only major quibble is the way the heat-sink is mounted on the card. It doesn't make direct contact the controller module. Given that the controller module actually benefits more from keeping a cooler temp than any of the NAND modules this is kind of an oversight considering they could have fixed it just by putting a thermal pad in there to bring it level. I would do this myself but its held in place by thermal adhesive of some kind and I don't want to damage the card.Still, considering most of these things don't come with any kind of heatsink I suppose it's not much of a negative. An after market one would cost about a tenner, so subtract that from the price and the deal looks even better.

Puede que esta memoria nvme pci x3 no sea muy conocido en Europa, pero Patriot no es una marca china, es muy buena.En este caso han hecho muy bien su trabajo, creando un producto excepcional, entre las 10 mejores memorias del mercado, de las mas rápidas y a muy buen precio.También incluye una controladora de última generación Phison E12 y unos chips Toshiba BiCS3 64L TLC que juntos prometen una resistencia de 380/800/1665/3115 TBW según los modelos de 256GB/512GB/1TB/2TB. Esto es una burrada, superior incluso a los samsung 970 evo. También supera al samsung en iops aunque en velocidad de escritura/lectura queda un pelín por debajo, nada destacable sin embargo, es uno de los mejores y concretamente en resistencia de lo mejor del mercado.También trae un disipador de serie, el cual mantiene la memoria a 50ºc max en una caja con buena ventilación, lo cual evitará pronblemas de throttling (perdida de rendimiento condicionada por la temperatura) que si tendrán otras marcas que no traen disipador de serie.

Patriot non è il primo nome che viene in mente quando si cerca una memoria (SSD, NVME o RAM che sia).Un vero peccato dato che produce componenti di ottima qualità, performanti e non troppo costosi.Questo prodotto è sconsigliabile solo a chi deve montare la scheda video sopra l'unità NVME (il dissipatore toglie spazio e, a seconda del modello della GPU/Mobo potrebbe non essere possibile).Ovviamente funziona con Linux (molto bene anche)

En test CrystalDiskMark, j'ai obtenu des vitesses de lecture/écriture séquentielles de 3100/3000 Mo/s, alors que le fabricant a annoncé 3450/3000 Mo/s. La vitesse de lecture séquentielle est donc en deçà de celle annoncée.En test de copie Windows d'un fichier de 15 Go, du SSD vers un RAMdisk et inversement, j'obtiens 1,80 Go/s en lecture. En écriture, ça commence très fort à 2,5 Go/s, mais descend à 1 Go/s dès que le cache du SSD est rempli.Ses performances sont donc honorables, mais pas exceptionnelles. Mais grâce à son refroidisseur intégré, qui doit coûter entre 10 et 15 € si on doit l'acheter à part, il a un très bon rapport qualité/prix. Il va très bien ensemble avec une carte mère entrée de gamme qui n'a pas de plaque de refroidissement intégré pour un SSD NVMe.Un mot sur les températures de fonctionnement, dans un boîtier bien ventilé : il est à 41°C au démarrage du PC, monte à 70°C après un usage intensif, puis redescend à 44°C lorsqu'il n'est plus sollicité.Je l'ai eu à 135 € il y a quelques jours, mais son prix a baissé depuis, il est à 132 € aujourd'hui.Je recommande ce SSD NVMe Patriot Viper VPN100 1 To pour son très bon rapport qualité/prix.

Presa la Patriot Viper VPN100 SSD M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe Gen3x4 da 512GB da abbinare a una scheda madre di 6 anni fà una Gigabyte ga-h170-hd3 con ram DDR4, ma dovuto aggiornare il BIOS che era ancora quello originale, nulla di complicato. Un plauso anche a Gigabyte.Utilizzata per velocizzare i caricamenti dei giochi rispetto a un hdd 7.200 rpm, i tempi sono diminuiti del 80% anche del 90% in giochi con pochi dati da utilizzare.La scheda è perfettamente, in linea con quanto dichiarato dal produttore in fase di read, un pochino sotto il dichiarato per il write, ma sono certo che il limite è il chipset della mia main board.Pienamente soddisfatto, anche del prezzo. Okay costa un pochino più di una ssd senza dissipatore, per l'appunto senza, se si prende ssd e dissipatore si spende di più.