Patriot Burst SSD 480 GB Burst, 2.5” Solid State Drive, SATA III, 6Gbps PBU480GS25SSDR

4 stars drive, but 5th star added for Patriot's Toolbox software. Great for older equipment, you can do better for a few more $$ with newer PC's that can use the boost. Patriot does have a very good downloadable ToolBox that they've been gracious enough to allow some fuctions of the toolbox to work on other, non-Patriot drives. = good SSD's, but other choices may be better. I've installed a 480GB & a 1 TB version of these, the 480 is the OS drive for an older SATA/2 machine, so that PC itself is the limiting factor. It has been flawless in that machine, greatly speeding up it's starting and it's use. The 1TB drive was bought for the OS and storage drive on a gaming PC and it also functioned very well but was the limiting factor when I benchmarked the machine. I had since tried it in two other machines as game storage drives, the first machine benched poorly with it, but the second machine loved the drive and had excellent benchmarks. I had used Patriot's software to wipe the drive before putting it into that last machine so it's possible that's what made the difference. Recommended, but ADATA SU800's and Crucial MX500's have benched better in every modern machine with SATA/3 that I've tried. The ADATA SU800 is usually within a few $ of the Patriot so that's my go-to.

Let me start by pointing out the obvious, which is that pretty much any SSD is going to provide a huge performance improvement over a conventional hard drive. This one is no exception. If you're into gaming or have other ultra-high performance computing needs, you've probably researched which SSDs are the very fastest down to the last fraction of a second in benchmark tests. I don't get into that level of performance. All I can offer is that like any SSD, this one will make an old computer feel like a new one, and a new one feel like a much more expensive one. I've only installed one of this particular make and model SSD so far, so I can't comment on how reliable it is compared to others. Again, SSDs as a class tend to be very reliable, far more so than conventional hard drives. I've had a couple SSDs fail, but both were from other brands, and the only pattern shown by two failures out of the dozens of SSD upgrades I've done indicates what I just said, which is that SSDs are very reliable. The only real variable is the "Easy to install" rating. I'm not sure why Amazon put it here, because ease of installation isn't really a feature of a SSD. This type of SSD is a drop-in replacement for a conventional laptop hard drive. However, there are steps you must follow to do this replacement. First, you must know how to make a full image backup of your hard drive, if your intention is to simply upgrade your drive; otherwise, you must know how to do a fresh operating system installation on a new drive and, presumably, copy your data over. I'm not going to get into those procedures here, or the tools and software needed to do it, as this is a review, not a tutorial. Second, if you're upgrading a desktop computer's hard drive, you probably need a suitable adapter to fit a 2.5" drive into a 3.5" drive holder. Finally, some computer manufacturers make it easy to access and replace the hard drive, while others make it quite difficult. In the easiest cases, the drive simply slides out of a door on the side of the computer, allowing you to replace the drive wit no disassembly. On the complicated end, I've worked on some computers where you have to disassemble most of the machine, take out the system board and flip it over in order to replace the hard drive. And that's just the hardware -- I had one situation in which a laptop's storage driver didn't agree with the SSD, and I had to find a different storage driver to make it work properly. So, I gave 3 stars for "Easy to install", but it's necessary to acknowledge that I would give this same rating to any SSD, regardless of make and model, and that most of that is beyond the SSD manufacturer's control.

I purchased this drive after my Windows 10 ssd drive died on me. It was inexpensive and so far runs really well. The read and write speeds aren't the fastest but I haven't noticed much of a slowdown if any. Windows is snappy and programs open up within a second or two (firefox opens up in under 2 seconds). Have been using as my os drive for almost 3 months now without any issues.

The Patriot Memory Burst SSD 240GB SSD is a good low budget level non-primary OS storage for around $31 USD. The installation for SSDs are simple, when you plug it in make sure you utilize Window's Disk Management feature so that you can assign a drive letter to make it visible on your PC. I am using this as a portable SSD to transfer and store files between systems. As for the negatives for the Patriot Memory Burst, the two primary ones that stand out: 1) The official software (titled SATA tool box or Phison Tool Box) for firmware upgrades, SSD summary, S.M.A.R.T., optimization, and secure erase DOES NOT even detect the SSD. I tried different configurations and checks to try and get it detected. It is not worth the effort, the software is just pure garbage (trust me on this). So you cannot do any of those if you decide to purchase. 2) The transfer speeds are questionable. I am running this on a USB 3.1 port and the highest I reached was an average write speed of 70-80 MB/s (I have attached a screenshot of write speed for 142 GB worth of files for reference). It did reach 200 MB/s but just for a very short 'burst'. It does not maintain that speed for longer than 30 seconds after initial write. My other SSD brands of the same configuration maintain 300-400+ MB/s throughout until completion. Overall, the value of the SSD offsets the negatives for me personally since I am just using this as a portable USB SSD. I wouldn't recommend using this as a primary SSD on your PC setup. $31 for 240 GB SSD is hard to beat at this time.

Lo quería para tener un SSD portátil a buen precio. Lo use con una case adquirida aquí mismo en Amazon y la verdad funciona de maravilla.

Installed this drive as the sole drive in a windows 10 PC. Went in easily. Fresh install of windows 10 from USB thumb drive worked perfectly. Has worked flawlessly ever since. Occasionally check it with some diagnostics (speccy)... It's runnng just fine. Delivery was fast and on time.

Buenas velocidades de escritura y lectura, las que se anuncian son precisas. La calidad de construcción no llega a la de un samsung evo, pero no está mal del todo. Es bueno, bonito y barato. Totalmente recomendado.

There is no dram module

Quando si sceglie una memoria SSD la cosa importante è analizzare bene l'ambiente in cui verrà utilizzata e il fine d'uso che se ne farà. Ho scelto questa memoria patriot comprata il 31 gennaio 2019 a €64,99, spedita con prime e ricevuta in 5 giorni, destinata ad un uso prettamente domestico in quanto dovevo sostituire la memoria ad un computer desktop nel quale la 3,5 pollici rotativa si stava rompendo. Considerato che la velocità dichiarata di 560 in lettura e 540 e scrittura viene testata in ambiente ideale, nel mio caso era un pò ridotta e si aggira intorno a 420 in lettura e 410 in scrittura, sono valori molto alti, anche paragonati ad un hard disk tradizionale. Questa memoria arriva in uno scatolo di cartone al cui interno si trova un blister in plastica con l'hard disk senza nessun accessorio quindi non ha supporti per essere montato in un alloggiamento da 3,5 dentro i computer desktop, in ogni caso non c'è stato nessun problema di sorta per montarlo in quanto le viti corrispondevano perfettamente ai supporti interni del case e ho fissato il tutto con una fascetta quindi si monta perfettamente nel computer fisso anche senza acquistare un supporto adattatore da 3,5 anche se facilita tanto. Ho installato il SO in poco più di 12 minuti, i tempi di Boot si attestano intorno a 20 - 25 secondi e la velocità di apertura di tutti i programmi è veramente breve. Qualitativamente è veramente ben costruito oltretutto la patriot ha una grandissima storia alle spalle per quanto riguarda periferiche veloci anche se ripeto questo hard disk appartiene ad una fascia consumer si difende abbastanza bene. Il rapporto qualità prezzo è veramente ottimo considerato che dello stesso quantitativo di memoria altri Brand sono più cari. Devo dire che sono molto soddisfatto dell'acquisto e sicuramente lo ricomprerei. Spero di esserti stato d'aiuto e ti auguro buon acquisto