{"id":4920,"date":"2025-01-30T11:15:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T11:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qworqs.com\/blog\/?p=4920"},"modified":"2025-01-30T11:15:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T11:15:53","slug":"which-ssd-should-i-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/2025\/01\/30\/which-ssd-should-i-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"Which SSD should I buy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a question that I get all the time from people who think I know my way around computers. So i will try making it as simple as possible because people who ask me are usually not the savviest of people when it comes to technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A table comparing DRAM-less SSDs to SSDs with DRAM is available here (Nothing extra ordinary, just to give you a feel of what variables are compared)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Storage space<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>There is honestly very little that I can say about storage that you don&#8217;t already know, your workload, and what you store on your computer is something you probably know all about, if you have plenty of video content, you need a big disk, if you just need to browse the web, a very small 128GB disk would do, one more thing to keep note of is durability, in the world of SSDs, the TB-Written endurance\/longevity rating increases as the disk grows bigger, simply because flash cells have a limited number of write cycles, the larger the disk, the more flash cells, the more data you can write to a disk without it going bad, Also, some performance parameters change slightly between different sizes of the same model, but I will not be making a choice based on those numbers, <strong>So the space consideration will boil down to &#8220;What are you planning to store on the disk&#8221;<\/strong>, and how much space will that need<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Speed<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The last time we spotted people to whom speed meant freedom of the soul was in 1997, ever since then speed has come to imply &#8220;Time savings&#8221; more than anything, So this is the area where things will get a bit complicated, the list of keywords you see here are what will be covered in this post<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Max transfer rate<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>IOPS<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Max sustained rate<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Burst rate<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>DRAM<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SLC Cache<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>4K reads\/writes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>HMB (Host Memory Buffer)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>NAND flash memory for caching<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether we are talking about spinning disks or SSDs, there is the maximum speed, which is basically a sequential read or write to the disk, which now, with NVMe (PCIe connected SSDs) has reached crazy speeds, and there is IOPS (Input\/Output operations)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cheap SSDs don&#8217;t come with DRAM, and for the average user, there is no problem with that, most data is for reading, and the SSD is hardly ever pressed to a workload where the difference is noticeable, so do I need a disk with DRAM ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are just someone who plays games, runs a web browser, and boots windows, the short answer is NO, the difference in time is not worth it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a question that I get all the time from people who think I know my way around computers. 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