Samsung 980 non-PRO NVMe SSD drops the DRAM cache?

[samunars]

I was looking for an upgrade on my storage and I thought I might as well go for an NVMe ssd, as they are much more reasonably priced as of recently. Amazon suggested the 980 non pro version of its m.2 NVMe ssd which had very few reviews and lookes "slimmer" in the pictures. Now it's really hard to look for info on this product because they (shadily?) dropped the "evo" suffix from their consumer level ssd, so any google lookup yielded useless results about the 980 pro. I found this article from hexus and this one from pcgamesn. They removed DRAM. I loved samsung cause I could trust them to be top tier even on the consumer level products but this kinda disappointed me, do you guys think it's still worth it without the cache?

[AnirbanG007]

2 minutes ago, samunars said:

I was looking for an upgrade on my storage and I thought I might as well go for an NVMe ssd, as they are much more reasonably priced as of recently. Amazon suggested the 980 non pro version of its m.2 NVMe ssd which had very few reviews and lookes "slimmer" in the pictures. Now it's really hard to look for info on this product because they (shadily?) dropped the "evo" suffix from their consumer level ssd, so any google lookup yielded useless results about the 980 pro. I founs rhis

If you need to go for an entry level NVME, go for the WD SN550. It's a very good SSD recommended by many, despite lacking dram cache. It has solid native flash performance.

[Guest]

I was also not a fan of this move. It damaged the brand in my eyes. It's totally fine to offer entry level SSDs, but there was no need to muddy the lineup like that. The drive is Gen 3 to top it all off, so it had no business in the same lineup other than to confuse people who are banking on how they normally name things.

[Red :)]