Patriot Warp v2 128GB SSD Review

Packaging and Accessories

The Patriot Warp v2 certainly comes in a distinctive looking box. The back of the box displays all the pertinent information you could want about the potent brew of cutting edge tech wrapped up in an old school 2.5” drive wrapper.


The front of the box is also very interesting, though in a way which we don’t necessary like. As with many packaging schemes which have been designed for the retail market, the front of this box has a large plastic film covered window in order to show off the actual drive. It certainly makes for a strikingly good looking package but we would hate to see our precious new drive come DOA because it got a poke right through the plastic window.


When you do open the box up you can see that the Patriot engineers have taken an interesting path when it comes to the protective measures implemented in this packing design. The inner box is a two layer affair with the back half basically being one large crush / crumple zone. This certainly will take a heck of a lot of blunt force trauma before any can reach the front zone….as long as the box falls flat on its back that is. The top zone is for all intents and purposes a box within a box as the Solid State Drive comes packaged in a plastic clamshell inside this upper zone.


As you can see ours took one heck of a beating by Mr. Courier. In fact it took such a beating a part of the inner clam shell broke off from the blunt force trauma. The amazing thing is the Warp V2 was in perfect condition with no visible scratches (or any damage for that matter) but, as we will show you latter in this review, was also in perfect condition on the inside as well.


Moving onto the accessories we come to the first, and hopefully only, disappointment. The accessories which come with it, or to be more accurate in saying lack of accessories really is puzzling. In a nut shell you get the Solid State Drive itself and a pamphlet and that's it. On the positive side at least this ultra frugality helps keep the price of the drive itself reasonable….ish.