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1TB - Patriot P220 SATA 3 Internal 2.5” Solid State Drive - Up to 550/500MB/s Read / Write - 2TB for £65.98 sold by Patriot Memory UK

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Posted 18 July 2023

1TB - Patriot P220 SATA 3 Internal 2.5” Solid State Drive - Up to 550/500MB/s Read / Write - 2TB for £65.98 sold by Patriot Memory UK

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Latest SATA 3 Controller
SEQ Performance Read up to 550MB/s, Write up to 500MB/s
4K Aligned Random Write: up to 50K IOPs
Built in end-to-end data path protection, SmartECC technology, and Thermal throttling technology
3 Year Warranty; O/S Supported: Windows 7*/8.0*/8.1/10

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19th Jul

Lowest price! Nice one!

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18th Jul
This is a bad deal. The Patriot P220 comes with 4 QLC NAND packages according to this review: madshrimps.be/art…iew

For only 80p more, you can get a much better TLC drive sold directly by Amazon (Kingston A400): amazon.co.uk/Kin…PVV

For the 2TB, again you can get a much better TLC drive but this time it's £1.02 cheaper (Integral V Series): mymemory.co.uk/int…tml (use code IM20) (edited)
19th Jul
Thanks! That 2TB Intergral is a cracking deal for £65
20th Jul
Bought the 1TB just to open it up and have a look inside to confirm the components as there were differing reviews, here you go -

Maxio MAS1102 controller, the same as in the fanxiang S101 and many other cheap drives, not the Phison S12 controller as mentioned in Hardware Corner review. It's not a terrible controller, just low budget -

The NAND is YMTC QLC NAND, not Micron TLC as mentioned in the HC review -

No DRAM cache in sight (again, the HC review is incorrect).
Either the Hardware Corner review was wrong from the start, or Patriot have bait and switched everything in the drive

The Patriot site states a 960 TBW for the 2TB which would be resonable number for TLC but too high for YMTC QLC NAND, so it looks like they bait and switched the NAND at least.
I had no knowledge of the P220 having DRAM, so I think that was an error on HC's part.

You'd be better off buying the fanxiang S101, Kingston A400, Integral V or one of the other cheap TLC NAND SSD's that are a very similar price.

It would still be fine as a game/storage drive, but I wouldn't go installing the OS on it or storing any data that isn't backed up on a regular basis. (edited)
18th Jul
get an NVME if you have space on your motherboard for one
19th Jul
Got a Patriot P210 2TB and write speeds are all over the place, sometimes under 20mb/s, sometime under 5mb/s and rarely above 60mb/s. I wiped the thing, deleted and remade the partition, formatted and trimmed it, and initially write speeds were back to 300+mb/s but as I started writing to it, it just got slower and slower, first down to 100, then 60, and now 30mb/s and it isn't even half full.
If it's just for media playback the read speeds are fine, but getting the files on there is a pain. Dunno if this is typical for QLC.
19th Jul
It's due to the lack of dram cache most likely or rubbish firmware. Most budget drives don't have dram cache and use a portion of the drive as cache, SLC area, which when saturated, slow stuff down. The controller normally moves data from the slc area to the slower tlc/qlc area on the fly to free up slc, but things slow down.

Not all dram less drives exhibit this slow behaviour, crucial bx500 springs to mind , but still things can slow down even on it but not to the extent of this Patriot. The Kingston a400 also has the same issue along with the v series Integral.

Stick to the Crucial mx500 or Samsung 870 if you want dram on sata. (edited)
18th Jul
How is Patriot compared to the other budgets
18th Jul
One of the better ones I reckon. This drive is a good budget option from reviews - an example madshrimps.be/art…iew
18th Jul
That's a... Solid deal!
18th Jul
Thinking of getting for my CCTV DVR - Hard Drive recently died so temporarily using a 256GB SSD it’s constantly overwriting. Thoughts on this for my DVR?
18th Jul
I wouldn't use a SSD for a DVR. The overwrites alone (and do DVRS even support TRIM?) will destroy the ssd.
I'd spend a bit more a buy a seagate cctv hdd
18th Jul
I've got a few spare caddies. Thanks.
19th Jul
is this Ok for Ps4 or would i need a SATA II specifically?
19th Jul
This would be fine.
20th Jul
Thanks for following through with buying the device, opening it up and sharing your findings. Good work.

It's shameful of Patriot to be playing games like this. I can understand that chips may need to change as certain parts may no longer be available, but it would be reasonable to expect that the overall specification would remain at least broadly the same. Here, they're just making sales of cheap and low performing devices on the strength that the may have once originally made a P220 with Phison P12 with TLC and DRAM - and people buy on the basis of reviews of the device when it was released.

If this is how they operate, not sure they're going to get to 300 feedbacks, at least not positive ones at any case.

I purchased the 1TB P220 back in March. It's currently in a freeview box to replace an old spinney disk so not easy to do a speed test or check the contents - but it's likely the same. And with QLC and no DRAM I can't see it lasting very long in that environment either.

I think you can legitimately send your device back as "not as described"!
20th Jul
Thanks for following through with buying the device, opening it up and sharing your findings

As a system builder it's good for me to know as well, now I know to avoid it in the future.

It's currently in a freeview box to replace an old spinney disk so not easy to do a speed test or check the contents - but it's likely the same. And with QLC and no DRAM I can't see it lasting very long in that environment either.

Yeah, you wouldn't want is as a drive that is constantly written to, like in a Freeview box. (edited)
18th Jul
Patriot...Can it get the motherboard to beep out God save the King on startup?
19th Jul
More like the national anthem for the US and A
19th Jul
What the fudge is a terabyte!!!!! (edited)
19th Jul
its what a rabid dog gives you
19th Jul
Hmm debating getting one of these as 500gb is enough space for my NesPi case but would take about 400gb in space which is still good enough but cutting it close.

With the interface on the NesPi being sata to usb I guess this is good enough too.
19th Jul
Its rated in the same tier as the legendary MX500 on the tier list. Its very different from the much lower performing but similarly named P210.

linustechtips.com/top…st/

Yes, will be great in a PS4. Have a SATA3 in my PS4.
19th Jul
It's DRAM-less so not as good as the MX500, but it's still a decent SSD, great at this price.
20th Jul
Thanks will get this.
20th Jul

Posting a deal from a seller with under 300 feedback?
*tut tut*

On 299 at the moment and I just left feedback so should be on 300 soon.

At least no mods spotted that, I had Silicon Power deals removed when they were on 299, lol (edited)