Reviewers Liked
- Solid performance
- Stylish heatsink
- Up to 2TB of capacity
- Very Good Performance (Up To 3200MB/s Read & 1000MB/s Write for The 256GB Model)
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Blue PCB
- Thermal pad doesn't mate with the controller
Patriot Memory VPN100 Viper
The Viper VPN100 M.2 PCIe NVMe 512GB SSD is one of the fastest enthusiast-grade solid state drives available today. It’s not only quick and affordable, but it is also packed with excellent features which makes it the ideal solution for every DIY PC gamer.
-- As reviewed by TheStreamingBlog
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9.2
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By GoldFries
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The Viper VPN100 PCIe M.2 SSD is a solid product, the 512GB model here retails at RM 389. There's also the 256GB model retailing at RM 230 and as for the 1TB and 2TB models, you'll have to check the price and availability with your regional contact....
By TheStreamingBlog
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The Viper VPN100 M.2 PCIe NVMe 512GB SSD is one of the fastest enthusiast-grade solid state drives available today. It’s not only quick and affordable, but it is also packed with excellent features which makes it the ideal solution for every DIY PC gamer.
By Guru of 3D
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This is a good product, so we've decided to give it the “Great Value” award. You can buy this 512GB version for around 100 USD, and you've seen the numbers, it's well worth it. You also need to remember that the price will most likely drop even further,...
By Tom's Hardware
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Looking for a fancy new M.2 SSD to throw into your build and don't want that extra RGB bling, but want a heatsink to keep your drive cool? Though it isn't a chart-topper, the Patriot Viper VPN100 has what it takes to compete with the best, and the write...
By Kitguru.net
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Patriot's Viper VPN100 drives were first seen being demonstrated at CES 2018 so they have taken a while to get to market. The drive is, at the time of writing this review, the only SSD in Patriot's Viper Gaming brand product portfolio, which contains an...
By MadShrimps
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The VPN100 NVMe drive from Patriot offers good overall performance, the numbers fluctuating depending how much the drive is filled and how much SLC cache is left from the TLC packages. In ATTO we got quite close to the rated speeds, with the drive blank...
By LanOC Reviews
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Honestly, the VPN100 surprised me a lot of my testing. It is easy to get used to a few of the ultra high end drives being the only good option when it comes to finding a fast M.2 drive. But Viper Gaming managed to position the VPN100 just behind the...
By Modders-Inc
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Before keyboards, mice and other accessories, Patriot was a flash memory based company. It originally started with RAM and then started to release USB flash drives and eventually started producing SSDs and gaming peripherals. Patriot's Viper product...
By APH Networks
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Equipped with the latest Phison E12 controller, is the Patriot Viper VPN100 512GB the solid state drive for the enthusiast? If I were to rate it on looks alone, I would call it a winner -- it certainly looks the part. The massive Viper-branded aluminum...
By NikkTech
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When Patriot informed us that they were sending the 256GB variant of the VPN100 (due to stock issues, we will however try to also get one of its higher capacity brothers) we weren't very thrilled mainly because we knew it couldn't compete with...
By funkykit.com
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Even though we couldn't reach declared sequential write speed in our tests, then the amount of advantages that the VPN100 brings, lets us recommend it without any hesitation. It's clearly one of the best M.2 SSD on the market and can easily compete with...
By eTeknix
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The Viper VPN100 from Patriot is an epic NVMe SSD, there can be no doubt about that. It looks fierce and perfoms with impressive results.Patriot attached one of the biggest heatsinks I've seen on an M.2 drive to the Viper VPN100. And in my book, that's...
By Nexthardware
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Dopo aver effettuato un'attenta analisi, possiamo finalmente esprimere il nostro personale giudizio sul nuovo Patriot VIPER VPN100 1TB.Trattandosi di un prodotto destinato principalmente ad un'utenza gaming, il look risulta particolarmente accattivante,...
By TweakPC
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Die Viper VPN100 ist eine außerordentlich schnelle SSD und erreicht tatsächlich in manchen Benchmarks mehr als 700.000 IOPs. Es sind im ASSSD sogar 785.000 IOPs. Insgesamt beißt sich die Viper VPN100 mit ihren Zähnen im oberen Drittel des Testfelds fest...