The Patriot Viper VP4300 Lite is a solid-state drive in the M.2 2280 form factor, launched on June 23rd, 2023. It is only available in the 4 TB capacity listed on this page. With the rest of the system, the Patriot Viper VP4300 Lite interfaces using a PCI-Express 4.0 x4 connection. The SSD controller is the MAP1602A Falcon Lite from MaxioTech, a DRAM cache is not available. Patriot has installed 232-layer QLC NAND flash on the Viper VP4300 Lite, the flash chips are made by YMTC. To improve write speeds, a pseudo-SLC cache is used, so bursts of incoming writes are soaked up more quickly. The cache is sized at 1000 GB. Copying data out of the SLC cache (folding) completes at 239 MB/s. Thanks to support for the fast PCI-Express 4.0 interface, performance is excellent. The Viper VP4300 Lite is rated for sequential read speeds of up to 7,400 MB/s and 6,000 MB/s write; random IOPS reach up to 900K for reads and 700K for writes.
At its launch, the SSD was priced at 239 USD. The warranty length is set to five years, which is an excellent warranty period. Patriot guarantees an endurance rating of 2000 TBW, a relatively low value compared to other SSDs.