Patriot launches Supersonic Rage Prime USB 3.2 Gen 2 stick with 5 year warranty and up to 600 MB/s read speeds

[Redaktion]

Sequential read and write rates approach that of standard SATA III SSDs all in a USB drive just a fraction of the size. How it might sustain such high performance rates over long periods, however, can be tricky.

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[Wereweeb]

So, why doesn't this get the aluminium heatsink treatment? Just make the fins long and it's skin-friendly. The name is certainly gamer-y and cringe enough to deserve some black-painted metal.

[cuiver]

Albeit the considerable heat, the issue here may be cache exhaustion. Some of these devices have SLC/MLC caches with TLC/QLC storage to improve the burst speed and overall write endurance. Since TLC/QLC cannot keep up with the cache, the sustained speeds may be impacted over large transfers.