Patriot this week began gross sales of its top-of-the-range VPN100-series SSDs. Prototypes of those drives based mostly on the Phison PS5012-E12 controller have been demonstrated at CES 2018, but it surely took the corporate and its accomplice fairly a while to finalize them. The undertaken efforts paid fairly nicely: the Viper VPN100 guarantees to be one of many quickest SSDs available on the market. To make sure that the drive performs persistently, Patriot outfitted it with a big heatsink and an exterior thermal sensor.
Based on the Phison PS5012-E12 controller, the Patriot Viper VPN100 drives carry 256 GB, 512 GB, 1 TB, or 2 TB of usable 3D TLC NAND flash onboard together with DRAM cache. Being geared toward high-end PCs, the drives function an M.2-2280 form-factor together with a PCIe 3.1 x4 interface. Given capabilities of the controller, the Viper VPN100 SSDs are NVMe 1.Three appropriate, function a sturdy LDPC-based ECC engine, SLC caching, and different options that prospects come to count on from trendy drives.
From efficiency perspective, the Viper VPN100-series merchandise look fairly spectacular. The quickest 1 TB mannequin presents sequential learn speeds as much as 3450 MB/s in addition to sequential write speeds of as much as 3000 MB/s. As for random learn/write efficiency, we’re coping with an SSD able to as much as 600Ok learn/write IOPS.
| Patriot Viper VPN100 SSDs Specifications | ||||
| Capacity | 256 GB VPN100-256GM28H |
512 GB VPN100-512GM28H |
1 TB VPN100-1TBM28H |
2 TB VPN100-2TBM28H |
| Controller | Phison PS5012-E12 | |||
| NAND Flash | Toshiba 64-layer BiCS3 3D TLC (?) | |||
| Interface | PCIe 3.1 x4 | |||
| Form-Factor | M.2-2280 | |||
| Sequential Read | Three GB/s | 3.1 GB/s | 3.45 GB/s | 3.1 GB/s |
| Sequential Write | 1 GB/s | 2.2 GB/s | Three GB/s | Three GB/s |
| Random Read IOPS | 250,000 | 300,000 | 600,000 | 500,000 |
| Random Write IOPS | 100,000 | 100,000 | 600,000 | 500,000 |
| Idle Power Consumption | < 900 mW (?) | |||
| PCIe L1.2 Idle | < 2 mW (?) | |||
| Pseudo-SLC Caching | Yes | |||
| DRAM Buffer | 512 MB | |||
| TCG Opal Encryption | ? | |||
| Warranty | Three years | |||
| MSRP at Launch | $79.99 | $137.99 | $244.99 | $499.99 |
| Retail Price at Launch | $59.99 | $94.99 | $199.99 | ? |
To guarantee constant efficiency even underneath excessive hundreds which may get the SSD controller highly regarded, Patriot outfitted its Viper VPN100 drives with a big aluminum heatsink that includes six relatively thick fins. The radiator will naturally stop these SSDs from being put in into high-performance laptops, however it is a tradeoff that the producer determined to take. Furthermore, the SSDs function an exterior energy sensor (along with the one built-in into the controller) to raised monitor temperatures of the system. It was unclear if the heatsink would block a GPU if positioned within the M.2 slot above a PCIe slot.
All Patriot Viper VPN100-series drives are backed by a three-year guarantee. The Viper VPN100 256 GB carries an MSRP of $79.99, the 512 GB model contains a beneficial value of $137.99, the 1 TB mannequin prices $244.99, whereas the top-of-the-range 2 TB SKU is priced at $499.99. Meanwhile, retailers like Amazon and Newegg already supply the brand new SSDs with tangible reductions.
Source: Patriot
