Patriot Memory, below its Viper Gaming model introduced the VPR100 RGB line of M.2 NVMe SSDs. Built within the M.2-2280 form-factor, the drive contains a huge heatspreader with RGB LED elaborations. You can play with the lighting not simply with the Viper RGB app, but in addition widespread lighting software program similar to ASUS Aura Sync RGB, MSI MysticLight, GIGABYTE RGB Fusion, and so forth. The drive takes benefit of the PCI-Express 3.zero x4 host interface with NVMe 1.Three protocol. Patriot is form and courageous sufficient to reveal that enabling RGB LED sync lighting can lower learn/write speeds by 20-30 p.c. Leaving them unsynchronized (following a preset) leaves drive efficiency untouched.
Available in 256 GB, 512 GB, 1 TB, and a couple of TB capacities, the VPR100 RGB combines a Phison E12-series controller with 3D TLC NAND flash reminiscence, cushioned by a DRAM cache. All 4 capability variants supply sequential learn speeds of as much as 3,300 MB/s, however write speeds range. The 256 GB mannequin affords as much as 1,000 MB/s, the 512 GB mannequin as much as 2,100 MB/s, and the 1 TB and a couple of TB fashions as much as 2,900 MB/s. Endurance figures (TBW) for the 4 fashions are 380 TB, 800 TB, 1,600 TB, and three,115 TB. Backed by 5-year warranties, the 256 GB, 512 GB, 1 TB, and a couple of TB variants of the VPR100 RGB are priced at 74.90€, 119.90€, 189.90€, and 379.90€, respectively.
