Patriot demos Viper PV573 SSD: up to 14 GB/s with blower fan design

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Patriot demonstrated its upcoming flagship solid-state drive with a PCIe 5.0 x4 interface at CES this week. The Viper PV573 SSD has a massive cooler with a blower fan, but Patriot says it can boast up to 14,000 MB/s sequential read speed and maintain a temperature of 45ºC due to the powerful cooling system.

Patriot's Viper PV573 SSD is powered by the Phison PS5026-E26 controller and Micron's B58R 3D TLC NAND with a 2400 MT/s data transfer rate. The drives will be available in 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB capacities, and the manufacturer says that they will offer a sequential read speed of up to 14,000 MB/s and a sequential write speed of up to 12,000 MB/s, which is in line with premium drives based on this Phison E26 platform from some other makers and enough to make it one of the best SSDs available.

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What differentiates Patriot's Viper PV573 from the rest of the range-topping PCIe Gen5 drives in an M.2-2280 form factor is its cooling system featuring an aluminum radiator, a heatshield, and a blower fan. The heatshield ensures that the fan blows air through the heatsink, not just against the heatsink, which Patriot says guarantees an operating temperature of just 45ºC. Such a relatively low temperature means that the drive will not throttle under high loads due to overheating.

Meanwhile, the cooling system is pretty large: it has a 16.5 mm z-height and requires and external power (which is why Patriot uses a cable with a SATA and four-pin Molex plug). The good news is that the blower fan design is rated at 25,000 hours, or two years and 10 months.

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Patriot says that the Viper PV573 SSD will be available in 2024 and does not mention pricing. However, we would expect it to be close to release and be priced in line with other premium PCIe Gen5 SSDs. 

Anton Shilov
Anton Shilov
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Anton Shilov is a Freelance News Writer at Tom’s Hardware US. Over the past couple of decades, he has covered everything from CPUs and GPUs to supercomputers and from modern process technologies and latest fab tools to high-tech industry trends.

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4 Comments Comment from the forums
  • thestryker
    Blower fans are always noisy I can't imagine the pitch that one this small must operate at. Here's hoping the Cooler Master vapor chamber SSD cooler can do the trick, because it seems to be fairly low profile and has no fans.
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  • scottscholzpdx
    thestryker said:
    Blower fans are always noisy I can't imagine the pitch that one this small must operate at. Here's hoping the Cooler Master vapor chamber SSD cooler can do the trick, because it seems to be fairly low profile and has no fans.
    The fans don't have to be spinning very fast. The heatsink looks beefy enough as is, and just ensuring air isn't stagnant probably does enough.
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  • thestryker
    scottscholzpdx said:
    The fans don't have to be spinning very fast. The heatsink looks beefy enough as is, and just ensuring air isn't stagnant probably does enough.
    They're talking about 45c operating temperature which implies load and it's not Phison's new controller. The only coolers that can keep those temps down now are ones with big heatpipes which this has none of.
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  • jp7189
    thestryker said:
    They're talking about 45c operating temperature which implies load and it's not Phison's new controller. The only coolers that can keep those temps down now are ones with big heatpipes which this has none of.
    The max power supplied by an m.2 slot is 11.55watts. A reasonable sink with a bit of air flow can easily dissipate that much.

    I think this is a bit of a niche product because any ethuiast looking at this will also understand how to direct enough case airflow over the stock heatsinks that comes with most motherboards to remove 12 watts.
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