Patriot Memory 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.

Christopher Matthews · 2026-03-16 · via amazon

Works good, great product

Tmaine · 2026-03-08 · via amazon

Works well. No problems an very fast

Rodrigo G · 2026-02-10 · via amazon

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 ;-)

T.G. Dubini · 2025-03-06 · via amazon

It works as expected

A.S. · 2025-11-19 · via amazon

Best Buy

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VALUE SCORE

Cap

128

Read

550MB/s

Type

NVMe

Cap

128

Read

550MB/s

Type

NVMe