When you hear the name Patriot Memory, your first thought may be of well, memory. The company has more tricks up its sleeves than just RAM, though. Last year, we got Patriot's first NVMe SSD into our labs, and we loved it. The Hellfire was a no-frills M.2 gumstick whose price and pep earned it our hearty endorsement.

This year, Patriot's moved on to another challenge—stuffing NVMe sticks into pocketable cases to turn them into portable SSDs. Meet Patriot's Thunderbolt 3-equipped Evlvr 1 TB. It's a tiny little sliver of a device, at 4" x 1.8" x 0.4" (101.6 x 45.7 x 10.2 mm) and only 3.5 ounces (99.2 g). It's not much smaller than Samsung's similarly-TB3-powered Portable SSD X5, but it's quite a bit lighter.