Best Boot SSD?

[VeroVex]

Wanting to upgrade from booting from my mechanical drive to a solid state one, preferably m.2, at a tight price of around 40-50$ cad. Seen a few on amazon, but either I'm blind or they don't want to tell me if it has a dram cache or not. If ya know some good ones, link them. a Silicon Power  one I thought was nice, and a kingston. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Those both will work fine. None have dram, but nvme drives don't need dram that much, and any modern ssd, even without dram, will smoke a hdd in almost all use cases.

 

Id pick the cheaper of the those 2 drives, I think they have the same or simmilar controller so performance will be about the same.

[Chris Pratt]

3 minutes ago, VeroVex said:

Seen a few on amazon, but either I'm blind or they don't want to tell me if it has a dram cache or not.

 

At that budget, it won't.

[VeroVex]

15 minutes ago, Chris Pratt said:

 

At that budget, it won't.

is it even worth buying one of those two if they don't have a dram cache? also, what price point does dram become more common

[VeroVex]

21 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Those both will work fine. None have dram, but nvme drives don't need dram that much, and any modern ssd, even without dram, will smoke a hdd in almost all use cases.

 

Id pick the cheaper of the those 2 drives, I think they have the same or simmilar controller so performance will be about the same.

could be wrong, but i think i remember seeing somewhere that some dramless drives use system ram?

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 hour ago, VeroVex said:

could be wrong, but i think i remember seeing somewhere that some dramless drives use system ram?

Yup, a few nvme drives do. not sure about these models, but it normally isn't a huge peformance difference.