Patriot P300 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD Review – USA Edition
File Transfer, File Read and Document Open
Real World File Transfer
Let’s see how real-world performance was when writing a movie folder containing seven 1080P movies over to the SSD. For this test, we are going to measure write performance by copying a 30.6GB folder of movies off from the drive being tested back to itself to see how performance looks. This action is basically a long linear sequential write operation and punishes the SLC Cache on many drives.
When it comes to writing a bunch of data to the drive without any breaks, the Patriot P300 1TB (US Edition) drive finished with the lowest average speed of all the NVMe drives and that would be 651 MB/s. The good news is that this is still 3x higher than the SATA III SSD in the chart.
Custom Read File Test
The next custom test that we are going to do is how fast each drive can read a compressed folder. For this we backed up a Steam copy of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds for the test file. The compressed folder contains 59 titles and is 27.3 GB (29,409,916,771 bytes) in size.
When it comes to reading a compressed Steam Backup file the Patriot P300 1TB drive finished with an average read speed of 1470.0 MB/s, which isn’t terrible by any means.
Document Open Test
We wanted to record the time it takes to open an application and came to the conclusion that using WordPad was one of the best choices for this. WordPad is a basic word processor that is included with almost all versions of Microsoft Windows from Windows 95 onwards. It is more advanced than Microsoft Notepad and most have used it form time to time. The reason we selected this application to benchmark in the LR SSD test suite is because it is seldom updated and delivers consistent results.
When it comes to opening up a text document with pictures in Microsoft WordPad, the Patriot P300 1TB drive completed the task in just 16.337 seconds. Not a bad result, but this workload doesn’t show a huge difference between a SATA III SSD and the fastest NVMe drive around.