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Patriot Burst Elite SATA SSD: 1.92TB $126.50, 960GB $65.35, 480GB $35.75, 240GB $22.05 + Del ($0 /w Prime) @ Patriot Amazon AU

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These Patriot Burst Elite 2.5" SATA SSDs continue to drop in price with an impressive price on both the 1.92TB and 960GB SSDs. Perhaps the cheapest SSD storage so far?

In terms of specs these SSDs are using QLC flash with no DRAM cache, so they're not the best OS drive, but certainly a good choice for game storage and fast data storage. The 1.92TB has 800TBW endurance and uses a Silicon Motion SM2259XT or Maxio MAS1102B controller depending on the batch.

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  • JerraJones on 07/04/2023 - 23:44
    +12

    I'm waiting on 4-8tb models being this cheap since my problem is lack of ports left that I can even plug these into.

    • Clear on 07/04/2023 - 23:47
      +11

      If 2TB is only just starting to hit this price it'll be years before anything higher gets this low.

      • snoopydoop on 08/04/2023 - 08:35
        +5

        I'm guessing they mean per TB, which I think is definitely possible it goes cheaper than this.

      • UncommonName on 08/04/2023 - 13:39

        4TB should be under $200 in the next year at that rate.

    • Agret on 08/04/2023 - 00:32
      +2

      Just buy the $15 usb3 cases to put them in and attach to rear of your case. You will be able to max out these budget drives in the enclosure no worries.

      • Fobsessive on 08/04/2023 - 00:39
        +2

        I think USB 3 is slower than SATA 3 but oh well

        • Agret on 08/04/2023 - 02:11

          QLC with no DRAM probably slows down after a few seconds of transfer anyway. Some of these budget SSDs become slower than hard drives after sustained 10-20gb of copying data.

        • Nom on 08/04/2023 - 22:27

          I think USB 3 is slower than SATA 3 but oh well

          Not noticeably, it runs just fine for "normal" use 👌

    • greatlamp on 08/04/2023 - 05:35
      +6

      You could look at a PCIe card that provides SATA ports. Look for a PCIe 4x one (rather than 1x).

    • freefall101 on 08/04/2023 - 11:05

      Same here, while it's still more than double the price of spinning rust the reliability probably makes it worthwhile as a replacement. Harddrives have dropped to 2.5c a GB and basically stopped there.

      As soon as I can get a 4TB drive for around $200-250 or 8TB for around $400-500 I'll be switching for good, even just for bulk storage.

  • Leho on 08/04/2023 - 00:17

    insane price wow

  • Agret on 08/04/2023 - 00:36
    +3

    Wonder if it's good for a PS3. Mechanical drives over 1tb have an issue with the way the blocks are allocated on the PS3 filesystem that makes them run super slowly. Max internal drive format is 1.5tb so lose a little bit of the drives storage but SSDs don't have the same slowdown, never considered it before but this is cheap enough for an old console.

    • Agret on 08/04/2023 - 02:19
      +3

      Here are the steps to restrict the drive to only show as 1.5tb (max the PS3 supports on latest FWs)

      https://www.reddit.com/r/PS3/comments/qlf8mk/2tb_ssd_on_ps3_…

      You can downgrade the PS3 to version 4.8 (Prior to Sony limiting the size) and format a 2tb drive but once you upgrade to the new firmware again if there is a power outage and it needs to error check the drive it will mess up your drive. No idea why you could format any size drive on this earlier FW but then they restricted it to 1.5tb.

      • hamwhisperer on 08/04/2023 - 13:11

        Wonder why they limited size.

    • JustinBl on 08/04/2023 - 06:16
      +1

      Hey they are arguably worth the price.
      You can get a 7200rpm 2.5inch 1tb HDD from eBay for $30 sometimes. Spending double for an SSD the ps3 can't utilise its full speed.

      Ps3's limits you can see comparisons on YouTube. Across the library you'll get 0% to about 20% increase in load times with the majority of games being between 0-5% increase.

      Makes menu browsing feel current gen though. Love how fast an SSD is when your browsing through 100s of games.

    • hamwhisperer on 08/04/2023 - 13:11

      I've done an SSD in PS3 and yes it does help for sure, but not as much as you'd like (same as PS4)

      However certain functions improve a lot and some games there's a difference. At the prices, may well be worth it to pop a 960GB in.

  • whyisave on 08/04/2023 - 00:36
    +3

    Time to also start looking for enclosures, to use as an external drive.

    AU$ 14.24 | UGREEN 2.5" Hard Drive Enclosure
    https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B06XWRRMYX

    • pauper on 08/04/2023 - 04:28

      Thank you for this.

      Is it worth looking at a usb C option?

      • greatlamp on 08/04/2023 - 05:40
        +3

        USB C isn't going to be faster necessarily, it refers to the port not the speed. It just means the connection on the enclosure side is USB C shaped, the connection on the other side can be changed by swapping the cable.

        These are USB 3.0 speed but think of that as a maximum, the real limitation to performance would be 4kb read/write speed which is going to be <100mb/s in any case, and depends on the quality of the controller.

        The worst enclosure I bought was a USB C simplecom brand one. I had good experience with Orico brand

        • SmoothCactus on 08/04/2023 - 13:32
          +1

          Orico have enclosures from simple and basic all the way to ones with top tier controllers and construction.

          They have quite a few good 2.5” cases that will saturated the drive speed.

  • deme on 08/04/2023 - 00:38
    +24
    Capacity Price (Single Unit) Price (10 Pack) Price per TB (Single Unit) Price per TB (10 Pack)
    120GB $15.65 $136 $130.42 $113.33
    240GB $22.05 $192 $91.88 $80
    480GB $35.75 $335 $74.48 $69.79
    960GB $65.35 N/A $68.00 N/A
    1.92TB $126.50 N/A $65.89 N/A
  • moneymoneymoney on 08/04/2023 - 07:04

    Great prices, thanks for sharing! Any suggestions on cloning software (preferably free)? I've used Acronis before but it came free with crucial. I have an old work laptop I want to give a boost to. TIA

    • thekow on 08/04/2023 - 07:50
      +1

      I've previously used clonezilla. I haven't used it in a while, so not sure if it's still handy.

    • Alzori on 08/04/2023 - 09:30
      +3

      Macrium Reflect Free Edition works well in my experience, windows only tho.

    • TilacVIP on 08/04/2023 - 09:36
      +5

      Try Macrium Reflect Free version.

      Been using it for cloning for past couple of years and cloned drives have worked flawlessly.

      Try this tutorial:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSdSNAjmdDg&t=3s

  • timhn on 08/04/2023 - 08:11

    Thanks OP. Bought 2x1.92TB to replace an aging 2Tb games drive.

  • MasterScythe on 08/04/2023 - 09:20
    +5

    Ive had several of these fail read-only. About 6 out of 20.

    Luckily, thats the best type of fail an ssd can do, since i lose nothing.

    But it also means no refund, since I cant secure wipe them to send them back.

    Worked well until then, and the survivors are speedy.

  • shabaka on 08/04/2023 - 09:32
    +6

    I would add a bit more and get BX500 or even MX500. but that's me, I'd rather get something I find more reliable for a peace of mind

    • Agret on 08/04/2023 - 11:53
      +2

      For $9 more (looking at the 2TB in here) you can get a $135 2TB Silicon Power A55 Ace which has TLC instead of QLC and has a DRAM cache

      https://www.amazon.com.au/SP-Silicon-Power-A55-2TB/dp/B07Q37…

      1TB is $76.99 for the A55 vs $65 for the Patriot.

      I would never recommend the BX500, the price difference between it and the MX500 are very small but the performance difference is very noticeable if using it as an OS drive. Same deal as this with the BX500 being QLC w/ no DRAM and the MX500 being TLC with DRAM.

      • shabaka on 08/04/2023 - 12:03

        yup I agree, I would go with mx500. silicon power doesn't inspire much confidence either I would say

      • Clear on 08/04/2023 - 13:57
        +1

        Just be aware Silicon Power are known to switch to QLC in batches without changing their listings and it's always DRAMless.

      • tempestswitch on 08/04/2023 - 19:43

        A55 has no DRAM

  • Alzori on 08/04/2023 - 09:32
    +1

    Looks good for my upcoming steam cache server/cctv storage. Nice! Camels show the 2tb has dropped a dozen times already in the last month, might wait and see if it continues down.

  • wxwsf on 08/04/2023 - 10:00

    currently have a WD 850x and a spare M2 available, with a old 1TB green HDD for storage
    this one or Kingston nv2 1TB or BX500 for $79

    • greatlamp on 08/04/2023 - 10:07

      I would trust either Kingston or Crucial more than Patriot, Kingston would my pick of the two.

    • Agret on 08/04/2023 - 11:58

      The NV2 is m.2 form factor and the BX500 is SATA, if you are looking for Crucial m.2 i'd look at the P3

      Crucial P3 1TB https://www.amazon.com.au/Crucial-CT1000P3SSD8-PCIe-NAND-350…

      That would be my recommended drive for your budget

  • taki on 08/04/2023 - 10:07
    -4

    Prices going down with world economy. I will not buy impulsively & prefer non Western products for ethical (anti arrogance) reasons ;)

    • Clear on 08/04/2023 - 11:44
      +2

      Your lucky day. Patriot SSDs are made in China.

  • Digitalco on 08/04/2023 - 10:35

    Good for a backup drive?

    • Clear on 08/04/2023 - 11:43

      Large sustained writes will slow down due to being QLC and DRAMless. Still fine for storing files.

    • MasterScythe on 08/04/2023 - 17:49

      Nah HDD's are cheaper per TB.

      Its a backup, let it run while you sleep.

  • abctoz on 08/04/2023 - 11:00

    Got a 1tb drive for $55 on Aliexpress

    Probably upgrade again when 4tb drives are $50 lol

    • Clear on 08/04/2023 - 11:42
      +1

      Which one on Ali did you buy? I have a few from there going strong.

      I recently got two 512GB Dahua SSDs for $20 each as the seller was clearing the last lot.

      • abctoz on 08/04/2023 - 11:44

        I just got the first result couldn't be bothered looking, prices tanked pretty hard at the start of the year 1TB was around $80 last year

        • UncommonName on 08/04/2023 - 13:41
          +1

          Are Aliexpress SSDs safe to use? What if there is a backdoor access installed on these HDDs?

          • Clear on 08/04/2023 - 13:59
            +1

            @UncommonName: Good thing they're not partitioned out of the box. Perfectly safe. Just no warranty.

          • Agret on 08/04/2023 - 16:29
            +1

            @UncommonName: I wouldn't be worried about backdoor access but when the drive suddenly fails and you lose all your data idk how good the warranty would be.

            • whyisave on 09/04/2023 - 00:34

              @Agret: yes, the warranty claim is only for the hardware and not the data,
              but since you would need to return the HDD to claim the warranty,
              so, many of us will not return a HDD since we cannot securely wipe the data that was on it.

          • hamwhisperer on 09/04/2023 - 12:35

            @UncommonName: I would be extremely hesitant

  • shano on 08/04/2023 - 15:23

    Much improvement sticking one of these cheap SSD's in a PS4 compared to the stock HDD?

  • Dogsrule on 08/04/2023 - 15:30
    +2

    Australian review of the 1.92TB:

    https://goughlui.com/2023/03/11/review-patriot-burst-elite-1…

    • whyisave on 09/04/2023 - 00:41
      +1

      https://goughlui.com/2023/03/11/review-patriot-burst-elite-1…

      Conclusion

      The SSD price crash is well and truly upon us and a temporary glut of flash memory means cheap SSDs for all.
      However, this doesn’t mean that those cheap SSDs are necessarily any good.
      The Patriot Burst Elite, for such a fancy name, is a bottom-of-the-barrel DRAM-less SATA 3 SSD
      using a Maxio MAS1102B controller coupled with YMTC (China) 3D QLC flash.
      While it may seem decent under benchmarks due to the effects of pSLC caching and
      a fixed-data-pattern optimisation in the controller, the true performance seems
      to peg its average write speed around 68MB/s for a full-random fill.
      Read speeds can also suffer during pSLC cache recovery moves into QLC memory areas.

      The kicker would be the fact the drive has a “Designed in California, USA” labelling on it,
      claims to be Made in Taiwan, but has manufacturing data that seems to suggest
      it is a rebadged Hikvision/Hikstorage product using YMTC memory which would
      make it truly a China home-grown product. So much for patriotism …

      It did survive the barrage of tests and if not entirely filled, may perform fine enough
      for many low-demand uses (e.g. to extend the life of an old workstation or laptop,
      or to use as a read-mostly store).
      For the price, I think it’s a fair compromise overall as there are some 1TB SSDs
      that cost as much as I paid for this 2TB-class drive.

      • Nom on 09/04/2023 - 12:03
        +2

        While it may seem decent under benchmarks due to the effects of pSLC caching and
        a fixed-data-pattern optimisation in the controller, the true performance seems
        to peg its average write speed around 68MB/s for a full-random fill.

        Except that nobody is doing a full-random fill in normal use, that's just a completely meaningless metric.
        For holding data and running games and applications, these drives are absolutely fine - normal users aren't writing hundreds of gigs in one go directly from another SSD on a regular basis.

        Reviews that focus on these meaningless limitations aren't really giving you a good review of real world use 👍

        Also worth pointing out that these "features" are what gets the drives down to such a cheap price. A drive without any limitations (that you won't run into anyway) costs way way more.

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