Patriot P320 512GB PCIe Gen 3x4 M.2 2280 SSD | Form factor: M.2 2280; Interface: PCIe Gen 3x4.

When I tried to upgrade to Windows 11 on my laptop computer (which IS physically capable of it) the hard drive died. I blame Windows 11 because I hate being forced to accept a new OS, but honestly, it was probably a coincidence. Luckly, my clever husband, an engineer and tinkerer, was able to run a lot of tests, verify the hard drive was bad, and replace it with this new one. It has the same storage capacity, seems fast and the installation was straightforward. The price was good, it worked, and my laptop is as good as new. I would recommend it.

Great amount of storage to replace my old HDD. Compatibility with my MSI Trident 3 8 was perfect. Keep in mind you’ll need to use a USB with Windows 11 installation media on it and it worked perfectly, installing speed 10x faster. So far I assume no heat issues as my computer was specifically designed to run NVMe

solid drive. heavy use for over a year. no issues. fast enough from what i can tell

Fast and works great

I bought this for a Raspberry Pi5 based Home Assistant and it works well. knocking 1 star because I had to get this at the height of the AI hype and it's absurd how these companies are fleecing us for components that data centers are *not* using (you really think data centers demand 128GB NAND chips? way too small)

Normally I go for one of a small group of premium name brand high capacity M.2 NVMe drives. In this case, I wanted to upgrade from a smaller USB thumb drive that I was using to see if a roon music server would perform well enough even with a slower thumb drive as the database drive running externally to my NAS. Since everything is backed up on that resource anyway and the database would likely never grow beyond 100GB, the main thing I needed was speed at low cost to keep up with my growing music collection. Even the lower performance models of M.2 SSDs from the big guys are rather pricey and the smaller sizes are disappearing rapidly from many product lines. It took a little filtering and dedicated searching to get down to where I wanted and most of the names I found were either unfamiliar or had very low sales volumes with relatively few reviews. My data is backed up, but that doesn't mean I ever want to use the backup. Patriot has been around for a while now and although I'd only used some of their older technology DIMMs and SoDIMMs in the way back, I couldn't ever recall a failure with them. I poked around and found this little guy for a price in the same range as a thumb drive of similar capacity, but with this M.2 being a 10-20X performance speed demon by comparison to USB thumb drives and many of the low end M.2s. I popped the drive into a socket and ran some tests on it and was pleased to see numbers consistent or a little better than the data sheet and that are far in excess of what I needed for my application. This won't keep up with the top of the line drives out there, most of which are 2-4X larger and significantly faster, but at least on paper it outpaces everything else I saw and was from a vendor with many reviews who has been around the storage block a few times. As a bonus, it's not getting very hot at all with just a simple flat aluminum plate for a heat sink, although that's typical of lower capacity drives running at slower speeds than their bigger cousins. Less than 10C rise at max so far and typically less. I could easily see popping this into a USB type 3.2 enclosure and using it as a portable drive where drives much larger would be overkill, but you want to leverage the speed of the latest generation USB ports for data transfers. It's not the latest and greatest, but speed and capacity you can't or won't ever use on a given SSD is wasted money so in the right size/performance use case niches, this is a bargain drive. Sometimes less is more ;-)

My windows 11 machine started to blue screen and randomly crashed. Eventually figured out the SSD was bad, finally gave in after 10 years of use. Went on Amazon for an affordable replacement and found this one. Amazing deal with the AI strain on hardware costs. Swapped out the SSD with this and am now installing windows 11 and am back in business. Awesome.

Works perfect and fast

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Ho preso questo Patriot P320 da 512GB come disco secondario per giochi e programmi, e devo dire che fa esattamente quello che promette. Essendo un NVMe PCIe Gen3 x4, la differenza rispetto a un vecchio SSD SATA o, peggio, a un hard disk meccanico, è abissale. Il sistema lo ha riconosciuto subito e le velocità di caricamento sono ottime: nei test sequenziali arriva vicino ai 3000 MB/s in lettura, il che lo rende perfetto non solo per l'uso quotidiano, ma anche per gestire file pesanti senza rallentamenti. Anche sotto stress non scalda eccessivamente(35-37 gradi celsius), il che è un buon segno per la longevità del drive. È una soluzione di storage senza troppi extra ma molto solida, ideale per chi vuole un upgrade veloce senza spendere una fortuna in modelli di fascia enthusiast. Se cercate un SSD interno che funzioni bene, sia veloce il giusto e non tradisca le aspettative, questo Patriot è una scelta sicura.

It’s buying for my external enclosure

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Awesome for the price in this situation. Got it around 9.2K