Patriot Announces New Spark SSD

[HardOCP News]

Patriot, a leading manufacturer of high performance computer memory, SSDs, gaming peripherals, consumer flash storage solutions and mobile accessories, today announced its latest budget solid state drive (SSD), the Spark, aimed at offering consumers reliable performance at a price that won’t break the bank. The Spark SSD will be available in capacities of 128GB, 256GB and 512GB to fulfill the needs of serious PC gamers storing large capacity games, content creators and everyday computer users. Utilizing the Phison S11 controller and TLC NAND, for a more budget friendly price, the Spark delivers on performance. With impressive read and write speeds for such an affordable drive, the Spark will reach sequential speeds of up to 555MB/s read and 500MB/s write to meet the standards of consumers looking to optimize screen time.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Nice prices all around ($35/128GB, $57/256GB, $105/512GB).

It will be interesting to see how it performs compared to the other entry level/lower tier TLC drives that are similarly priced.

 

[wyqtor]

Patriot SSDs are a complete disaster, at least here in Europe. Entire batches of 240 GB SSDs dead after less than a month. Kingston V300 is much more reliable as an entry SSD at a similar price.