DRAM-Less SSD for Data (documents) Only

[JTPOTATO]

Need a bit of advice on this one.

 

Now I've read a lot about DRAM-less SSD's being a bit poor on speed and life, but Amazon had a sale on some Kingston A400 Drives, and i couldn't resist.

 

But the use case for the SSD is a secondary drive for data like work documents, not games, or anything large or write/read intensive... etc. very low strain.

 

DRAM ssds were triple the price, hence why I went for one.

 

What's people's experience with them for this kind of workload?

[SlashedM]

They are fine to use for documents games etc.

[JTPOTATO]

2 minutes ago, SlashedM said:

They are fine to use for documents games etc.

Thanks, I thought they'd be fine... also bought them on Amazon, so got a good comeback for refund/replacements if needed

[Tristerin]

I primarily use DRAMless drives for games.  As boot drives they suck compared to a good SSD.  For downloading large files they suck (allocating space).  My 2 copper coins.  Id do it.  Just make sure work documents are backed up if you are afraid of drive failure.  Ive yet to have a DRAMless SSD fail on me in the past few years Ive owned them.

[Quackers101]

can be fine, just not have anything too important and if you can get more of them, you could maybe use some for storage (not in use).

While having the others for general storage so if something fails you got a backup, games might take longer time to load however.

[SlashedM]

6 minutes ago, JTPOTATO said:

Thanks, I thought they'd be fine... also bought them on Amazon, so got a good comeback for refund/replacements if needed

Odd that the DRAM ones are triple price. I got the Teamgroup NVMe one for about the same price as a DRAMLess WD Blue model.

[JTPOTATO]

On 1/5/2021 at 9:47 PM, Tristerin said:

I primarily use DRAMless drives for games.  As boot drives they suck compared to a good SSD.  For downloading large files they suck (allocating space).  My 2 copper coins.  Id do it.  Just make sure work documents are backed up if you are afraid of drive failure.  Ive yet to have a DRAMless SSD fail on me in the past few years Ive owned them.

Thanks for this. The data is actually for OneDrive Storage, and OneDrive is also backed up by a third party... so I'm good on the data front.

[JTPOTATO]

On 1/5/2021 at 9:49 PM, Quackers101 said:

can be fine, just not have anything too important and if you can get more of them, you could maybe use some for storage (not in use).

While having the others for general storage so if something fails you got a backup, games might take longer time to load however.

 

 

Thanks, The primary use is syncing Documents on OneDrive... so that's technically a second location, then with that also being backed up... so I think I should be good on making sure data doesn't disappear