Patriot Burst Elite SSD: 1.92TB $105.50, 960GB $56.40 Patriot P210: 2TB $119.50, 1TB $61.65 Delivered @ Patriot Amazon AU

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These Patriot 2.5" SATA SSDs are back on sale with some price drops compared to before. Both of these SSDs are DRAMless with the Burst Elite 1.92TB offering 800TBW endurance and the 2TB P210 offering 960TBW endurance. Neither are PS5 compatible.

In terms of flash storage used the P210 2TB has been found to use Micron 176 layer QLC flash with a Silicon Motion SM2599XA controller and YMTC 128 layer QLC flash with a Maxio MAS1102 controller. The Burst Elite 1.92TB has also been found to use YMTC 128 layer QLC flash with a Maxio MAS1102 controller in some batches like the P210.

Given you're likely to get QLC flash with pSLC cache, these are suitable in situations where you'll be doing more reads than writes. For example game storage for everyone's massive Epic and Steam libraries.

Patriot Burst Elite:

• 1.92TB $105.50
• 960GB $56.40

Patriot P210:

• 2TB $119.50
• 1TB $61.65

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  MasterScythe on 31/07/2023 - 22:47

  +24

  Ive got half a dozen of these in the field.
  4 of them have failed read-only after only a few months.

  Granted, thats the best type of fail, but it means no warranty unless your user was already using encryption, because no way to sanitize the drive.

  I'll stick with Crucial for a while I think.

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    Richardc on 31/07/2023 - 23:02

    +5

    With sandisk last time they allowed me to drill a hole on the thumb drive and send it back.

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    Clear on 31/07/2023 - 23:26

    +1

    P210 or Burst Elite?

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      MasterScythe on 31/07/2023 - 23:57

      +1

      Burst Elite.

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        Clear on 01/08/2023 - 09:54

        Good to know thanks. Are these just used normally in PCs or something a bit more read/write intensive?

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          MasterScythe on 01/08/2023 - 10:34

          @Clear: Normal Windows 10 desktops, with elderly users in a 'Chrome only' type environment.

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            Clear on 01/08/2023 - 11:21

            @MasterScythe: Damn that's disappointing.

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    reader64 on 01/08/2023 - 00:08

    +6

    the p210 is "FINE"

    The burst is Very VERY hit or miss

    Crucial you are right are insane quality..i have an MX500 with over 2000Tbw onto it,still ZERO hiccups

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    Windows7forever on 01/08/2023 - 08:08

    +1

    A 66% failure rate?
    That's unfathomable. Will steer well clear of this brand.

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  CVonC on 01/08/2023 - 00:09

  How does the 960GB Burst Elite and 1TB P210 compare to that 1TB Kingspec from AEI asked you about? Oh nvm these Patriots are 2.5" SSDs not M.2 SSDs which I am looking for.

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  theguwithnoname on 01/08/2023 - 00:29

  +6

  Can I just say, it's absolutely incredible how cheap flash memory is these days.

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    MasterScythe on 01/08/2023 - 09:14

    Yup.
    I still remember my $150 16MB USB1.0 drive :)
    In fact, I think I still have it somewhere.

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    kogi on 01/08/2023 - 09:18

    +1

    its cheap because its qlc bullshit

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      theguwithnoname on 07/08/2023 - 07:50

      Who cares. It works, and stores the number of bytes it says so on the box. Follow a reasonable backup scheme and you're fine.

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  jeeg on 01/08/2023 - 01:20

  Tempted to get the P210 for a drive on the nas which will be used to download and store those frequently used programs for installation onto the other pcs on the network. Is this ssd deem reliable enough for such purpose?

  Or spend another $9 to get the crucial BX500?

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    flame21 on 01/08/2023 - 03:40

    +5

    Well bx500 should be TLC, so $9 upgrade from qlc to tlc is a good deal.

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      jeeg on 01/08/2023 - 08:35

      +1

      Thanks bro. I will go that way then.

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      netsurfer on 01/08/2023 - 09:17

      +4

      BX500 could be QLC. In fact, I'd rather assume it is QLC.

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  Skullytor on 01/08/2023 - 11:44

  Maybe the 1TB one for media on the go - whack it into a USB sata caddy. Might be worth the risk if the data on there isnt critical.

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  BargainEnjoyer2022 on 01/08/2023 - 19:26

  i have 2 of the P210 for external game drives; 512GB for PS4 & 1TB for Steam. also have a 480GB Burst Elite in PS3, but that's an ancient SATA1.
  i think just about any SSD will saturate SATA, so it's a nice cheap alternative.

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  John Smith 30283115 on 16/08/2023 - 16:23

  This drive has failed on me - fortunately managed to retrieve the data.

  As suggested, store nothing of value with this!

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    CVonC on 16/08/2023 - 19:27

    Already failed? O.o