Cannot tell if the SSD has dram or not

[Totally Average Gameplay]

So I came across a certain SSD in my local area for ~$110 (I have not bought it), and I searched the reviews online and only found the gold version of the drive (which has good reviews or sometimes bad or Newegg or Amazon: a lot of them say that the SSD fails within months)
But the drive I looked at is different and I searched Teamgroup's site for more info, does not show me much and I can't really tell if it has one or not. Is this going to be a significant impact in storing games or is the reliability of the drive troublesome.

This is the SSD I got interested


This is what the reviews are showing the SSDs as: either has "3D+Sata3", or "3D+Lite" both in gold colors while the SSD above is black

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14874/the-team-l5-lite-3d-sata-ssd-review

[OwensTechTips]

If you want to buy a 1TB SSD, a WD or Kingston was is probably your best bet.

[NewMaxx]

Don't get it - it's likely the 2D version which is terrible and DRAM-less. I can't tell for sure as you didn't capture the model number - the 1TB 2D version is T2535T001T0C101. The 3D version, which has DRAM and is an okay budget drive, is T253TD001T3C101. To be fair, any SSD is fine for storing games, but I'm pretty sure you can find a better value/deal than that.

[Totally Average Gameplay]

It is T2535T001T0C101, thanks for the info

16 hours ago, NewMaxx said:

Don't get it - it's likely the 2D version which is terrible and DRAM-less. I can't tell for sure as you didn't capture the model number - the 1TB 2D version is T2535T001T0C101. The 3D version, which has DRAM and is an okay budget drive, is T253TD001T3C101. To be fair, any SSD is fine for storing games, but I'm pretty sure you can find a better value/deal than that.

 

[NewMaxx]

2 hours ago, Totally Average Gameplay said:

It is T2535T001T0C101, thanks for the info

 

While it's possible they changed the hardware, it used to one of the few drives in the "garbage tier" of my SSD list. Slow and unreliable. The 3D version is significantly better but has short-term reliability issues (high initial failure rate, that is). If you're looking for a cheap SATA SSD with DRAM that's also reliable, the SK Hynix S31 Gold is probably the best bet.