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Is the Patriot Burst Elite, 960GB dramless?

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Only 450MB/s max and 3 year warranty, if it's this down-costed I really doubt it would have DRAM.

 

DRAM doesnt matter if it's not your boot drive, that is where all the random reads and writes occur

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Hi!

Does someone maybe know if the Patriot Burst Elite 960GB is dramless or not? I need some extra storage, for games and stuff and I'm currently looking at this Patriot SSD, so wanted to know if it has a dram cache or not, since I know that it is pretty important for the performance and I can't find anything on their spec sheet or any sellers website.

To be honest, if I just need some extra budget storage, is it that important or just find some model that is reliable and be done with it?

 

 

Thanks for the replies!

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Only 450MB/s max and 3 year warranty, if it's this down-costed I really doubt it would have DRAM.

 

DRAM doesnt matter if it's not your boot drive, that is where all the random reads and writes occur

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7 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Only 450MB/s max and 3 year warranty, if it's this down-costed I really doubt it would have DRAM.

 

DRAM doesnt matter if it's not your boot drive, that is where all the random reads and writes occur

Thanks for the info! Since its just extra storage, I'll just look for something that is somewhat reliable and has good reviews.

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I was curious about this when I was looking at one and found a data sheet that claimed it has a 32MB buffer. So almost DRAMless, you'd expect a gig in a 1TB drive. Still, it does what I need it to, games are a read heavy load.

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On 12/15/2021 at 4:01 PM, mirachu said:

I was curious about this when I was looking at one and found a data sheet that claimed it has a 32MB buffer. So almost DRAMless, you'd expect a gig in a 1TB drive. Still, it does what I need it to, games are a read heavy load.

Yeah, the Phison S11 can have 32MB of embedded SDRAM (DRAM), although according to the document it may be used as a write buffer rather than the more typical metadata caching we see with external DRAM. It also still has SRAM, some of which can be used for mapping, but that's very limited. It's effectively DRAM-less.

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