Dramless NVME?s

[tjrose91]

looking for a spare NVME ssd as they tend to be the same price as a Sata SSD 

and my plan is to get one NVME or 2x1tb Sata SSD but most likely will go NVME as i can use an adapter to 4x PCIE and save the 2 sata ports on my motherboard

main question a DRAMless NVME SSD for a Steam Library or DRAM,i found a few OEM sub $200 2tb or 1.6tb NVME ssd im sure i could find a cheaper one 

or has NVME drives changed so much where you dont need a Cache anymore and its all done on a SLC cache then the rest of the TLC memory picks up the rest, so much research not enough Linus videos

[Electronics Wizardy]

dramless ssds are fine for games and desktop use, the performance is more than enough for almost all consumer users.

 

That 1.6tb is likely a used enterprise drive. I got a 3.2tb pm1725 for about $260, and its a bit older, but was the faster datacenter ssds aroudn 4 years ago. They do run pretty hot though

[tjrose91]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

dramless ssds are fine for games and desktop use, the performance is more than enough for almost all consumer users.

 

That 1.6tb is likely a used enterprise drive. I got a 3.2tb pm1725 for about $260, and its a bit older, but was the faster datacenter ssds aroudn 4 years ago. They do run pretty hot though

i got a spare 92mm blue led fan currently installed in my system to help with the natural convection of heat and the item i saw seem to had a exposed die like a GPU

[mahyar]

‌in some nvme ssds being dramless isnt a problem becuase of pci-e bus they can usee system memory as cache