Packaging and Contents

The Drive

The drive conforms to the dimensions set forth by the 2.5" form factor. It is made out of metal to improve its durability and is only 7 mm thick, which ensures it will fit into modern notebooks.


The Patriot P200 uses the SATA 6 Gbps interface. It is compatible with any older SATA standard, but will, in such a case, work at reduced performance.


On the PCB, you'll find two NAND flash chips and the controller—a DRAM chip is not installed.


The Silicon Motion SM2258 is a four-channel flash controller; the used XT variant denotes support for DRAM-less SSD designs.


The two flash chips are 64-layer 3D TLC NAND, made by Intel through their cooperation with Micron. Each chip has a capacity of 512 GB.