P320 512GB Internal SSD - NVMe PCIe Gen 3x4 - M.2 2280 - Solid State Drive - P320P512GM28

Work and performed perfectly in the computer I put it in.

Works good, great product

Works well. No problems an very fast

Normally I go for one of a small group of premium name brand high capacity M.2 NVMe drives. In this case, I wanted to upgrade from a smaller USB thumb drive that I was using to see if a roon music server would perform well enough even with a slower thumb drive as the database drive running externally to my NAS. Since everything is backed up on that resource anyway and the database would likely never grow beyond 100GB, the main thing I needed was speed at low cost to keep up with my growing music collection. Even the lower performance models of M.2 SSDs from the big guys are rather pricey and the smaller sizes are disappearing rapidly from many product lines. It took a little filtering and dedicated searching to get down to where I wanted and most of the names I found were either unfamiliar or had very low sales volumes with relatively few reviews. My data is backed up, but that doesn't mean I ever want to use the backup. Patriot has been around for a while now and although I'd only used some of their older technology DIMMs and SoDIMMs in the way back, I couldn't ever recall a failure with them. I poked around and found this little guy for a price in the same range as a thumb drive of similar capacity, but with this M.2 being a 10-20X performance speed demon by comparison to USB thumb drives and many of the low end M.2s. I popped the drive into a socket and ran some tests on it and was pleased to see numbers consistent or a little better than the data sheet and that are far in excess of what I needed for my application. This won't keep up with the top of the line drives out there, most of which are 2-4X larger and significantly faster, but at least on paper it outpaces everything else I saw and was from a vendor with many reviews who has been around the storage block a few times. As a bonus, it's not getting very hot at all with just a simple flat aluminum plate for a heat sink, although that's typical of lower capacity drives running at slower speeds than their bigger cousins. Less than 10C rise at max so far and typically less. I could easily see popping this into a USB type 3.2 enclosure and using it as a portable drive where drives much larger would be overkill, but you want to leverage the speed of the latest generation USB ports for data transfers. It's not the latest and greatest, but speed and capacity you can't or won't ever use on a given SSD is wasted money so in the right size/performance use case niches, this is a bargain drive. Sometimes less is more ;-)

It works as expected

Great NVME drives for not a lot of money. I bought two and set them up as a striped raid. It’s fast as hell and it’s just a cache drive so I’m not worried about losing any data.

No need for fancy words, Kingston makes solid products. Upgraded the wife's laptop from a 512 that was about to die and now she is up and running with 1TB.

i am using a pair of these as boot drives for a Proxmox server. Their performance is not great, but they provide a very usable boot device. I gave them 5 stars because they do the job at a good price.

Ho preso questo Patriot P320 da 512GB come disco secondario per giochi e programmi, e devo dire che fa esattamente quello che promette. Essendo un NVMe PCIe Gen3 x4, la differenza rispetto a un vecchio SSD SATA o, peggio, a un hard disk meccanico, è abissale. Il sistema lo ha riconosciuto subito e le velocità di caricamento sono ottime: nei test sequenziali arriva vicino ai 3000 MB/s in lettura, il che lo rende perfetto non solo per l'uso quotidiano, ma anche per gestire file pesanti senza rallentamenti. Anche sotto stress non scalda eccessivamente(35-37 gradi celsius), il che è un buon segno per la longevità del drive. È una soluzione di storage senza troppi extra ma molto solida, ideale per chi vuole un upgrade veloce senza spendere una fortuna in modelli di fascia enthusiast. Se cercate un SSD interno che funzioni bene, sia veloce il giusto e non tradisca le aspettative, questo Patriot è una scelta sicura.

It’s buying for my external enclosure

Installed as boot disc for older Dell laptop. Kept the old HDD for storage. SSD for Windows and Apps/ Apps data. Working very well. HDD was at 100% before install. Now SSD is about1-2% and the HDD about 1%. Easy to install and load to. Check the spec before purchase to confirm compatibility. If anything changes will update.

Muito bom! Recomendo!

Diese NVMe ist perfekt für den Einsatz in einem NVMe-Shield für den Pi 5. Gerade bei NVMe muss man aufpassen, dass man keine SATA-Version erwischt, und auch der Chipsatz spielt eine Rolle. Mit dieser SSD hat man keinerlei Probleme. Sie wird sofort erkannt und auch der Datendurchsatz von ca. 430 MB/s liegt voll im erwarteten Rahmen für ein Raspberry-NVMe-Shield (1 Lane). Zur Info: Die SSD kann deutlich mehr, aber das Shield begrenzt hier. Ein sehr ausgewogenes Preis-/Leistungsverhältnis und für den Einsatz in einem Raspberry ideal.