Patriot Memory is a brand that has been around for over a decade, and a brand I have had some personal memories with. My first custom build was done with a Patriot Sector 5 DDR3 kit years ago. And while they might not have the name recognition of Corsair or G-Skill they have been around as long and do provide products with great customer support and warranty.

With the fuss about SATA SSDs dying down over the past few years and NVMe M.2 drives becoming all the rage the coverage for cheaper SATA based solutions has gotten quiet, a little too quiet as many still use the standard 2.5 inch SSDs for their main OS drive or a secondary SSD when their high-end NVMe drive gets a little too cramped. If you play a lot of open world games or multiplayer games, sometimes the speed of an NVMe drive is excessive but an old school HDD is just not enough. With the prices of NAND memory going down so has the price on larger sized drives, and larger capacity drives like this one are in a much more affordable price range.