The Patriot Hellfire M.2 480GB Review: Phison NVMe Tested

AnandTech Storage Bench - Light

Our Light storage test has relatively more sequential accesses and lower queue depths than The Destroyer or the Heavy test, and it's by far the shortest test overall. It's based largely on applications that aren't highly dependent on storage performance, so this is a test more of application launch times and file load times. This test can be seen as the sum of all the little delays in daily usage, but with the idle times trimmed to 25ms it takes less than half an hour to run. Details of the Light test can be found here.

Filled or not, the Patriot Hellfire manages to keep pace with the Intel SSD 750 and provide a higher average data rate than any SATA SSD can manage on the Light test.

The average service times of the Patriot Hellfire are slightly worse than the Intel SSD 750 and the more recent NVMe SSDs, but are still better than the Intel SSD 600p or any SATA SSD.

Samsung's 960 PRO and EVO are the only NVMe SSDs that don't show a significant increase in high-latency outliers when filled. The Patriot Hellfire's performance is essentially tied with the Plextor M8Pe and is comparable to most other MLC NVMe SSDs.

The power efficiency advantage of a good SATA SSD is very clear on this test, as the Patriot Hellfire and most other PCIe SSDs use two to three times the energy to complete the Light test.