Patriot Memory Viper VP4300 VP4300-1TBM28H 1 TB

Run leader

The Patriot Viper VP4300 is the fastest SSD to date and will likely remain so until the release of the fifth generation PCI-E SSD. It develops maximum speed in the case of the 2 TB version, while the one-terabyte reads just as fast, but writes a little slower.

A fresh look

Built on the controller of the young company InnoGrit — IG5236, codenamed Reinier (besides it, InnoGrit's assortment has only two simpler controllers — IG5216 and IG5220). Despite the inexperience, InnoGrit managed to make the PCI-E 4.0 controller faster than the recognized market veterans Phison and Silicon Motion.

overheat protection

Thus, the 1TB VP4300 sequential read speed reaches 7400 MB / s, and sequential write — 5500 MB / s. The volume of the virtual SLC cache is 10 percent of the disk volume, after it is full, the write speed drops to about 2000 MB / s. Theoretically, the speed can drop even lower, up to 1000 MB / s, due to overheating of the controller.

double set

But in fact, this will definitely not happen, because the Viper VP4300 comes with two heatsinks for different tasks. The first thin one made from graphene, in case the M.2 SSD slot is under the graphics card. The second is thicker, made of aluminium, for the most efficient heat dissipation, it is recommended to install two radiators at once.