Patriot Viper VP4300 Lite Overview
The Viper VP4300 Lite is your typical M.2 2280 (80mm) drive. On the main side there is a black sticker, but it is actually not a sticker, but a thin heatspreader. This thin heatspreader will provide a bit of cooling. Patriot is not offering a heatsink version of this drive, but since this is a low-power, DRAMless drive it shouldn’t really get that hot.
Flipping the drive over we can see that we do have a single-sided drive. On the back there is a sticker that has all of the information you need about the drive.
Under that top heatspreader you’ll find the Maxio Tech MAP1602-C 4-channel controller and YMTC 232-Layer TLC NAND flash chips. This is a truly DRAMless design so we do not have a cache chip.
