The cost-effective Patriot P210 SSD is ideal for people which are not interested in highly-sustained write speeds but more on capacity and this without breaking the bank. Its overall behavior is similar to the one we have seen with other QLC DRAM-less drives, meaning that until the SLC pseudo-cache fills up, the write speed will remain high but afterwards it will drop to as low as 13MB/s. This is a non-issue for most mainstream users and the drive is positioned correctly on the market price-wise.

A test with HD Tune does show exactly what happens when the SLC cache is fully filled up, so it may need a bit of time to recover after writing continuously for a long time; during recovery time the access time will increase as well; the advantage with higher capacity drives is that the SLC cache portion is bigger as well:

The time of the review, the 2TB version of the P210 could be found online for just about 180 Euros!

Patriot P210 2TB 2.5'' SSD is Recommended for:

We would like to thank again to Patriot Memory for making this review possible!