Patriot PXD – high speed in a chewing gum pack size

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External SSDs are slowly but surely displacing classic USB memory sticks or external 2.5″ HDDs. They offer high speed, large storage and at the same time compact dimensions. I’ve been using Samsung’s T5 for some time now, and in the spring we also looked at SanDisk’s Portable SSD. Patriot, which collects plus points for great performance and reasonable prices in our reviews, is also coming to the market now with their PXD model. We will see if this is the case as well.

Rating

Patriot, again, did not disappoint and PXD Portable SSD is a very neat external SSD. I praise the compact dimensions, good build quality and, above all, the great performance, which is significantly higher than on the previous generation of external SSDs. It can be said that the novelty performs up to twice as well as the previously tested pieces, but only under certain conditions. Perhaps the biggest difference was seen when working with 1 GB and 12–59 kB files, where the PXD quickened the transfers up to 10 times compared to Samsung and SanDisk. This is pretty unseen. Primarily, however, you will enjoy high speeds especially when transferring large video files, etc. Then you will attack the magic border of 1 GB/s.

The chassis heating is kept safely below 50 ºC even with intense use of maximum power. In a few minutes of sequential reading (at an ambient air temperature of 21 ºC), the average temperature stabilized at 44 ºC with a 46-degree maximum in a place above the controller. So even from the cooling point of view, the combination of high performance in such a small body is fine.

There really isn’t much to criticize. We’ve seen some write performance drops in some form of files, after the pSLC buffer was filled, but the worst case scenario was that PXD was as fast as the competition, which I certainly wouldn’t call a disaster. The SSD has a 3-year warranty, is compatible with both Windows and macOS, which we tried, and looking for some other negatives is quite difficult. Maybe the absence of HW encryption or increased robustness as with SanDisk, but let’s say, most users will not use this and when you need something like that you will reach for something other than PXD. Finally, only the price remains, which is surprisingly good. The tested 1 TB piece can be obtained for as little as 160 euros, which is the price at which you normally buy an internal 1 TB NVMe SSD. But now you can have this SSD with you everywhere…

Patriot PXD Portable SSD receives the Go for it! recommendation from us for great performance, exemplary build quality, compact dimensions with minimal negatives and a very favorable price.

• 512 GB – 3 199 CZK/118 EUR
• 1 TB – 4 990 CZK/185 EUR
• 2 TB – 7 999 CZK/295 EUR

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