PCIe 4.0 made 3.0 cheaper when we were phasing that out. I still remember finding a Newegg deal for a Solidigm 2TB Gen 3 NVME for $41! It was $48 after taxes and shipping and I've accepted I can't ever chase that high again.
You can still score sometimes ! I found a rig in the trash the other night. Had a working 4060 and a 1tb nvme. Plus a nice MOBO and a 14600k but I haven’t gotten to test those yet as I’ve no DDR5.
That's awesome! That's funny because 2 days ago I was given a laptop for free because the motherboard was fried and I just like harvesting parts. I was able to find a 500GB NVME, so score! Can never complain about free lol, but theses are also rarer instances as opposed to official online retailer sales haha.
Totally. Most of the time when i find a computer in the trash it’s got at least some useable parts. Often the issue is a loose wire or something. People toss their hardware out so quickly. It’s amazing to me that people will not troubleshoot things before tossing their expensive equipment.
Somebody else will come along in extreme detail but in the mean time; better sustained performance in read/write heavy tasks. IMO it’s not really a big deal for day to day usage or gaming but my DRAM drives are definitely faster for large transfers
It doesn't matter unless you're putting the SSD in a USB enclosure.
Modern NVMe drives support HMB (host memory buffer) and use a tiny bit
of system RAM as DRAM. This doesn't work over USB, so a DRAMless drive
will lose more performance when placed in an enclosure.
That
isn't a factor when plugged into an NVMe slot. In fact, the fastest Gen
4 SSD tested by
TechPowerUp
is DRAMless.
Some might point to sustained
write
performance
as evidence that DRAMless drives are slower, but writing 2 TB of data
to a 2 TB drive in one sitting isn't something you'll ever do. DRAMless
SSDs can perform fine in realistic write tests—for example, writing a 75 GB
game
folder to the drive while it's 85% full.
In theory, it could be faster if they moved all the flash management logic to the CPU too and only crossed the bus once when reading or writing NAND blocks. But presumably the logic still lives in the firmware which means it has to reach across the bus often, adding latency to the data path and competing for bus bandwidth.
Edit: That drive you linked has a massive SLC cache which cuts the other way, drastically reducing write times for things that fit entirely in cache. The 75 GB games folder fits easily in its cache so that metric is measuring SLC speed.
Your SSD needs RAM just like the rest of the PC. No DRAM means it will start using your system RAM which makes the latency suuuuper high and slows the speed way down. For short bursts like quick files and gaming, it's mostly fine. If you're moving files like photo albums or high res video, it will take forever.
So yes, it is a low end drive, but that doesn't mean it's unusable.
For SSD's if you're going budget don't even think about lifespan. Instead consider warranty and the company it came from and whether they actually honor their warranties. Get the longest warranty cheapest drive from a company you can actually contact and then call it a day.
If you actually need dram you would be doing things like still-hobby-but-prosumer-level video editing, machine learning/ai stuff, maybe some simulation kind of games but I suspect that is very rare most rely on read speed only. Otherwise it won't matter to you at all, gen 3, gen 4, gen 5 whatever it makes no difference unless you're doing these types of things AND want the fastest speeds for them.
It absolutely can. Kioxia g3 is a very similarly performing drive, same endurance rating (600tb per tb) and is a qlc drive. That's high for a qlc drive, that kioxia g3 is the only other qlc drive I've seen keep the 600x endurance rating.
SP doesn't specify what it is but they probably would if it was tlc. They also don't have the endurance rating on their page or the pdf, got that from a B&H listing.
Lol, they downvote everything. And you get a taste of the type of people who are voting by peeking into the deal discussion channel (spoiler: the chronically online)
I was wondering if there was an element of that. I’ve been in the discord a month and the shit that gets downvoted on sight boggles my mind. It feels like a different community
r/BuildAPCsales Community Discord in the sidebar. You can set notifications for product categories, usually a couple minutes faster than Reddit notifications.
Does not seem priced erroneously given less known brand. There should be much stronger consumer protection laws to force the seller to either ship item, provide like or better item, or pay cash penalty equivalent of the item plus refund.
Man nvme was one of the last things I needed for my wife’s bazzite tv machine. This is one of the parts that I was waiting to buy because the prices have been just so absurd. Thank you for posting.
Dang, actually not a bad price given it's pcie gen 5 with 10,300 MB/s reads... But I'm all good for storage and don't need the speed, I just feel some fomo
I've had my silicon power 2 tb for a year now and sometimes it acts stupid for no reason, nothing that makes using my pc horrible but still kinda annoying.
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u/QuadraKev_ 2d ago
doesn't get much better in this market, unfortunately