Patriot Viper VP4300 Lite 2TB

[@eTeknix]

Good to see you back on it dude.

[@GadgetJoe]

Thank you sir! It's good to be back!

[@RepublicofODLUM]

This made me feel a lot better about my current setup. I got the 1tb 4300lite as my main m.2 drive for windows and games with a 20tb wd red pro as my backup storage for anything that doesn't need those insanely fast read/write speeds (like movies/music/pictures etc). I was a little worried when I found out that is has no dram and had friends telling me that was a huge no-no, that I should return it for a samsung 990 or something along those lines but it sounds like ill be just fine. cheers for the review, concise and easy to understand.

[@WonderBat-Cow]

Thanks you explain with that dram and hbm thing, really nice to know

[@mizbitz5126]

Does the drive still hold up today? Planning to buy it and do you have any recommendation at around the same price? Maybe something more reliable from your experience? BTW Cheers for the review

[@glennholgate3543]

In it to win it! 😏

[@TheWorstGamerr]

Is the Patriot Viper VP4300 Lite still working well after 9 months?

[@GadgetJoe]

@TheWorstGamerr it is indeed, I use it almost daily in my editing rig and it's never failed me. Still performs just as well as it did on day 1 which I'm pleased to report!

[@dtsdigitalden5023]

Solid review. Lately I have been prioritising capacity over bandwidth, not sure if that's the right approach, but the really fast, large-ish (4 TB) NVMe drives seem way off the scale in terms of value .... Cheers!

[@GadgetJoe]

Thank you! Yes I completely agree with you, often the 4TB just seems a little unachievable in price. I actually have 2x 2tb drives running which does take up an extra slot but then I have the security of having a backup option if one does fail too. Plus, most newer motherboards often have upto 4 drive slots as standard too.

[@dtsdigitalden5023]

@@GadgetJoe Fully agree. I'm still using spinning rust for redundancy, at least as long as SATA ports exist, haha. :) Thanks again.

[@GizliKullanici.]

I bought a Patriot VP4300 Lite M.2 SSD and it won't go above 3700mb/s, what could be the reason? Motherboard:: Asrock B550M-HDV Processor: Ryzen 5 5500

[@GadgetJoe]

Hi, the b550m-hdv has a gen 3 nvme port on it so it will only hit maximum speeds capable of a gen 3 drive unfortunately.

[@GizliKullanici.]

@@GadgetJoe The website reads, I really don't understand Hyper M.2 (PCIe Gen4 x4) Supports the next generation PCI Express 4.0 M.2 SSDs, it is capable of perform twice the speed compared to previous 3rd generation, giving a lightning fast data transferring experience.

[@JustSomeGuyLV]

@@GizliKullanici. 1 x Hyper M.2 Socket, supports M Key type 2242/2260/2280 M.2 SATA3 6.0 Gb/s module and M.2 PCI Express module up to Gen4x4 (64 Gb/s) (with Vermeer, Matisse) or Gen3x4 (32 Gb/s) (with Cezanne, Renoir and Picasso)* - you have to figure out what are these things called "Vermeer" and "Matisse"

[@miedzynamislimakami4987]

Hi, have you already solved your problem? I have the same

[@lps8966]

Im choosing between this and the wd blue s580, what would you recommend?

[@lps8966]

Both 2 TB

[@radikhisameev5352]

Hope he'll answer on this question ... btw, can you tag me if he will

[@lps8966]

@@radikhisameev5352 is been three mouth I don't think so...

[@carmelodegu]

Is it ok to install my operating system and all my games and apps there?

[@GadgetJoe]

@carmelodegu yes it would be more than fine to have your os and games on this, in fact I use mine as my editing rig main drive and had no issues to this day 😀

[@carmelodegu]

@@GadgetJoe Thanks a lot. I thought I'll have to purchase another ssd with dram for a boot drive.

[@celto107]

I would disagree using this as an OS drive. It has no DRAM which is not good for any modern boot drive. Though using it as a drive for games, etc is still good

[@TheWorstGamerr]

@@celto107 Why?

[@Ghennesph]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory_controller