The mainstream Viper VP4300 Lite series from Patriot is composed of four DRAMless SKUs (500 GB, 1TB, 2TB and 4TB) and comes with Maxio controllers (HMB enabled) and YMTC NAND 232-layer. This type of setup does not exactly overheat, so it is ideal to be used in Playstation 5; the thermal aspect is also backed up by the integrated heatshield, which is very slim.
Viper VP4300 Lite 1TB is shipped inside a simple cardboard/transparent plastic enclosure, which shows the total storage capacity on top, the supported PCIe standard but also the maximum rated read speed of 7400 MB/s:
On the back, we will note the main product highlights, a QR code to access Internet resources, addresses of the Patriot Memory offices around the world, but also the product code name and serial number:
After removing the drive from the cardboard layer, we will note that it also sits secure inside a transparent plastic enclosure:
VP4300 Lite is covered on the top area by an ultra-thin graphene cooling heatspreader, which helps with heat evacuation on a larger area:
The back side comes with a regular sticker, which informs us on the product code name, serial number, capacity, but also the supported standards:
After removing the top heatspreader, we will note a controller on the left, but also two NAND packages:
The main controller is a MaxioTech MAP1602A Falcon Lite sporting an ARM 32-bit Cortex-R5 architecture, with four cores and was manufactured on TSMC’s 12 nm process node. It is Host Memory Buffer Enabled in order to benefit from the system’s memory as a cache:
The NAND flash was manufactured by YMTC, is named Xtacking 3.0 and features TLC 232-layer technology:
