The Viper series VP4300 model received a cheaper sibling in the PCI Express 4.0 range between 500GB and 4TB.
Patriot recently released its latest M.2 SSD, which can take advantage of four PCI Express 4.0 lanes and VP4300 Lite his name was
Since the solution with physical dimensions of 22 x 80 x 3.8 mm and using the NVMe 2.0 protocol was not designed specifically for a high-quality product, instead of the DRAM buffer, the HMB (Host Memory Buffer) technology takes care of the buffering, that is, from the drive system memory Ours, tweak a bit to do the said job. Unfortunately, the manual does not disclose the type of controller or 3D NAND flash chips, but it does hide support for the Toggle 5 / ONFI 5 flash interface, PlayStation 5 compatibility, and SmartECC debugging.
On the 500GB, 1, 2, and 4TB chips, a thin graphene sheet is fitted for cooling purposes, and the sequential read/write speed can go up to 7400/6400MB/s, although if the last disk runs in the unit Sony controller, the maximum is 6100 MB / s. The 400, 800, 1600 and 3200 TB data storages with questionable pricing are currently covered by a 5-year warranty, but the announcement of the exact release date has been delayed until later.