CONCLUSION

   DRAM-less models are supposed to be low-cost alternatives to people who are simply not able or not willing to spend much on a brand new SSD. Because of that their read and write performance is usually quite inferior to that of regular SSD models that also sport DRAM modules inside. Still as you can easily tell from our charts the P200 holds its own against most of the competition, DRAM-less or not (it even surpasses several “high-end” models). Unfortunately unlike their M.2 NVMe counterparts due to the fact that SATA SSD models can’t use the latest Host Memory Buffer technology (and thus have no system memory access) latency in DRAM-less models may increase under heavy workloads but at the end of the day we’re still talking about an brand new SSD model so I seriously doubt this would be of any concern, especially for people on tight budgets.

   With a current price tag of USD94.99 inside the USA (Amazon.com) and 111Euros inside the EU (Amazon.co.uk) the brand new P200 1TB 2.5” SATA III SSD by Patriot is priced even better than anticipated by us. Long story short you really can’t go wrong with the P200 1TB SSD by Patriot since not only does it combine a very good price/capacity ratio but both its performance and endurance/durability numbers are higher than expected and that’s also why it gets our Golden Award.

PROS

- Very Good Performance
- Features (Global Wear Levelling / SLC Write Caching / DevSleep)
- Available In 256/512/1000/2000GB Capacities
- Endurance Numbers (2 Million Hours MTBF / 640TBW For The 1TB Capacity)
- 3 Year Limited Warranty
- Price

CONS

- Value Model (DRAM-Less Design)
- No Cloning Software In The Bundle