Stefan Mileschin

LAS VEGAS, NV — Patriot has introduced a rather rare product, an external SSD with a Thunderbolt 3 interface. The Patriot EVLVR offers up to 1 TB capacity, up to 1.5 GB/s sequential read speed and is bus powered, making it a nice optional storage upgrade for modern laptops.

The Patriot ‘Evolver’ EVLVR Thunderbolt 3 Portable drive comes in a relatively compact metallic chassis (which measures around 85×40 mm if my calculations are correct) with rounded edges, a LED indicator and a TB3 connector. The enclosure packs an SSD based on the NVMe 1.2-compliant Phison PS5008-E8 controller with a PCIe 3.0 x2 interface as well as Toshiba's 256 Gb BiCS3 3D TLC NAND memory.

Patriot’s EVLVR drives will be offered in 256 GB, 512 GB and 1 TB configurations that will provide up to 1.5 GB/s sequential read speed as well as up to 1 GB/s sequential write speed. A good thing about the ‘Evolver’ is that because a TB3 interface can supply up to 15 W of power, the external SSD it is completely bus powered and does not require any additional cables.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12257...derbolt-3-ssds