Final Words & Conclusion
Final Words & Conclusion
The P200 is an elegant looking product for a SATA drive, let's start there. The overall performance looks average, but in reality, is certainly decent enough for any mainstream gaming PC. This is a TLC NAND product, and that does show its negative write gap in some areas (long sustained writes). The thing you need to realize though, this is a budget offering, don't can’t expect any extras in the package either. It will be a nice choice for gamers or just people looking for a cheap replacement of an HDD or added NAND storage. The offered speed is more or less in line with the SATA3 standard, you shouldn’t expect any anomalies other than a TLC write hole.
Performance
Bandwidth and queued 4K IOPs loads are on a good level, so you can't really complain in this department at this budget, and also, 80K+ IOPS really isn't that important for regular users. The SSD was very good in real-life tests, even beyond our expectations for this economy class SSD. The temperatures were well under control, and 40 degrees is normal, with no impact on the drive’s performance.
Conclusion
This is an interesting product in the sense that it might be cheap to pick them up as additional storage. In that mindset, we’ve decided to give it the “Great Value” award. You can buy this 1TB version for around 110 USD which is just over 10 cents per GB, and you've seen the numbers: it’s well worth it. You also need to realize that we're close after launch, meaning the price will most likely drop even further, as that’s what the current market trend dictates. Performance is very decent. I think that most users who decide on this drive as an HDD replacement or additional SSD in the PC should be satisfied. Hardcore gamers should probably look at higher drive series, but even for these more demanding users, the P200 can be fast enough. Patriot adds a three-year carry-in warranty on the P200 SSD which is the market standard, it’s still more than your typical warranty period in many countries. So yeah, nothing out of the ordinary, but for the money, this could be an attractive alternative to get some TB SSDs in the PC.
Recommended Downloads
- Anvils Storage Utilities
- AS SSD
- CrystalDiskInfo
- CystalDiskMark
- PC Mark Vantage Storage Tests
- SiSoft Sandra Benchmark suite
- ATTO Disk Benchmark
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