Capital de TokensSamsung's Cheap SSD: Selling You the Past as If It Were the Future
Watch on YouTube Samsung launches an NVMe SSD that goes back to PCIe 4.0 and removes integrated DRAM to cut costs — but the user pays the price. Without DRAM cache, using QLC NAND and your PC's RAM as a substitute, marketing speeds conceal much lower real-world performance in everyday operations.
Samsung launches an NVMe SSD that goes back to PCIe 4.0 and removes integrated DRAM to cut costs — but the user pays the price. Without DRAM cache, using QLC NAND and your PC’s RAM as a substitute, marketing speeds conceal much lower real-world performance in everyday operations.
We break down what DRAM is in an SSD, why it matters more than sequential speed, how HMB works, and what MEMOcalypse means for the consumer market. We also tell you which three details to check before buying any SSD so you don’t fall for the marketing.
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