It is an RGB world out there and Patriot wants to make you happy by having RGB on your storage. They debuted the Viper VPR100, a line of NVMe PCI Express 3.0 bus SSDs with RGB lighting.
Patriot is offering the VPR100 SSDs in four capacities, 256GB, 512GB, 1TB, 2TB 512GB, and 256GB.
VPR100 2TB—3,300MB/s read, 2,900MB/s write
VPR100 1TB—3,300MB/s read, 2,900MB/s write
VPR100 512GB—3,300MB/s read, 2,100MB/s write
VPR100 256GB—3,300MB/s read, 1,000MB/s write
As is the case with smaller sized NVMe SSDS, the 256GB model while still fast, the writes speeds fall short of the larger models. But still faster than any SATA SSD on the market.
On the endurance front, Patriot rates the 2TB model at 3,115 terabytes written (TBW), the 1TB model at 1,600TBW, the 512GB model at 800TBW, and the 256GB model at 380TBW.
The VPR100 SSDs are available now direct from Patriot, coming in at VPR100 256GB—$94.99,VPR100 512GB—$134.99,VPR100 1TB— $229.99 and VPR100 2TB—$399.99. all drives come with a 5-year warranty.
