Patriot Memory P210 P210S512G25 512 GB

Easy start

The Patriot P210 is one of the most affordable classic 2.5-inch SSDs available. It belongs to the category of so-called Full Size drives, in which the volume of 1 terabyte is exactly 1024 GB, and not 960, such as the Patriot Burst Elite. The thickness is 7 mm, making the drive suitable not only for desktop PCs, but also for laptops.

More than promised

The manufacturer claims sequential read and write speeds of up to 520 and 430 Mbps, respectively. But in the case of the 1 and 2 TB versions of the Patriot P210, the real figures are even higher — up to 560 MB / s, which is the maximum bandwidth of the SATA 3 interface. Random reading and writing of small 4K blocks is claimed up to 50K IOPS (input-output operations per second). But in reality, these numbers are also higher — up to 75K.

Progressive Approach

This is achieved thanks to, as written in the official specifications, a “modern SATA 3 controller”, the role of which is most often performed by Silicon Motion SM2259XT (depending on the batch, the controller and flash memory chips may vary). The XT suffix means the presence of a small integrated cache, which allows you to do without a separate RAM chip and, thereby, minimize the cost. The rewrite resource for a 1 TB model is at least 480 TB.