Thursday, December 5th 2019
Patriot Viper Gaming Announces the VPR100 RGB M.2 NVMe SSD
Patriot Memory, under its Viper Gaming brand announced the VPR100 RGB line of M.2 NVMe SSDs. Built in the M.2-2280 form-factor, the drive features a wide heatspreader with RGB LED embellishments. You can play with the lighting not just with the Viper RGB app, but also popular lighting software such as ASUS Aura Sync RGB, MSI MysticLight, GIGABYTE RGB Fusion, etc. The drive takes advantage of the PCI-Express 3.0 x4 host interface with NVMe 1.3 protocol. Patriot is kind and brave enough to disclose that enabling RGB LED sync lighting can decrease read/write speeds by up to 20-30 percent. Leaving them unsynchronized (following a preset) leaves drive performance untouched.
Available in 256 GB, 512 GB, 1 TB, and 2 TB capacities, the VPR100 RGB combines a Phison E12-series controller with 3D TLC NAND flash memory, cushioned by a DRAM cache. All four capacity variants offer sequential read speeds of up to 3,300 MB/s, but write speeds vary. The 256 GB model offers up to 1,000 MB/s, the 512 GB model up to 2,100 MB/s, and the 1 TB and 2 TB models up to 2,900 MB/s. Endurance figures (TBW) for the four models are 380 TB, 800 TB, 1,600 TB, and 3,115 TB, respectively. Backed by 5-year warranties, the 256 GB, 512 GB, 1 TB, and 2 TB variants of the VPR100 RGB are priced at 74.90€, 119.90€, 189.90€, and 379.90€, respectively (including VAT), in the EU. Across the big pond, they're priced at USD $94.99, $134.99, $229.99, and $399.99, respectively.
Available in 256 GB, 512 GB, 1 TB, and 2 TB capacities, the VPR100 RGB combines a Phison E12-series controller with 3D TLC NAND flash memory, cushioned by a DRAM cache. All four capacity variants offer sequential read speeds of up to 3,300 MB/s, but write speeds vary. The 256 GB model offers up to 1,000 MB/s, the 512 GB model up to 2,100 MB/s, and the 1 TB and 2 TB models up to 2,900 MB/s. Endurance figures (TBW) for the four models are 380 TB, 800 TB, 1,600 TB, and 3,115 TB, respectively. Backed by 5-year warranties, the 256 GB, 512 GB, 1 TB, and 2 TB variants of the VPR100 RGB are priced at 74.90€, 119.90€, 189.90€, and 379.90€, respectively (including VAT), in the EU. Across the big pond, they're priced at USD $94.99, $134.99, $229.99, and $399.99, respectively.
24 Comments on Patriot Viper Gaming Announces the VPR100 RGB M.2 NVMe SSD
Patriot Designer : Not hot enough, ADD MORE RGB TO COOK IT so peasants can keep buying new ones!
Well, after a friend of mine 3D prints me a replacement bottom cover with a non kludged cutout for acrylic viewing panels of things.
Who says laptops can't be customised for unicorn vomit light shows.
n.O.p.E
n.o.t.t.a.....
no way, jose'......
Via PCpartpicker:
Corsair MP600 Gen 4 2TB at USD369.99
Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2TB at USD399.99
my upcoming upgrades are a bit more modest:
Sandisk Ultra 3D 2TB 2.5" at USD240.00
Samsung EVO 1TB at USD150.00
Just need to get all of my ram running at 2666 instead of the mixed speeds i'm running currently.
Thankfully ram has come down in price.
Should I disable mine? I only had it on because I heard it helps with overclocks...
Oh, do tell, pleeeze
"I heard that you shouldn't believe everything you read on the internet"
Where did you hear that ?
"On the internet"...
Do everything really need to have RGB on it these days. All from SSD to fans and even your dam chair or monitor can have RGB. only HDD seems to have been spared from the rainbow eyesore.
@kapone32 Not every NVMe drive sits under the GPU, the smarter mobo designs place the drive above the GPU and below the CPU ;)
Well... glad we could clear it up I guess.
You're a guy on the internet, I'm sure you have some good information. People online are usually so smart! How do they know these things? Aaannyway... maybe you can answer this one for me. I always thought that underbody lights make your car go faster. I noticed a lot of those tuner cars have them. I figured that must be how they can make a Honda Civic a 10-second car. Is this also untrue? Thanks.
I have the VPN100 and although the first one I got was trash, as it overheated in 10 seconds due to the heatsink having zero interface with the NVMe controller, the replacement is pretty good, especially for the price I paid. Their support was also hassle free.
Wouldn't touch this with a barge pole though...
Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming