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expired Posted by armharm • Sep 24, 2022
Sep 24, 2022 7:56 PM
512GB Team Group CX2 2.5" SATA III 3D NAND Internal Solid State Drive
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For most people, the likelihood of anything happening is small, but at the same time, for the typical consumer they're not going to have data redundancy so losing the only copy of something is very problematic. And like you said, you should safely remove the drive but people often won't for whatever reason. I have an old drive that refuses to be safely removed when plugged into a USB adapter. Luckily it doesn't have any important data on it so if it corrupts/asserts then w/e, no loss for me. But if you're using it as a portable drive it's something that needs to be considered.
just want to know which is best out of the 12 similarly priced 512gb SSDs.
This argument about Cache D RAM SLC NBA CPK BBC TLC MMA WTF is so hot that
Me and other dude can't even get an answer to a consumer level question
Seriously, though, it totally depends on a number of factors. Which M.2 drive are you comparing it to? What are you using it for? Are you copying/moving a lot of small files? Are you downloading and moving large files regularly? Are you using it to store your Steam/Epic game library? If you are just using it as a boot drive, or as storage that you aren't regularly moving files onto/off of, for the most part you won't notice any real difference between this and any other SSD.
YMMV, of course
just want to know which is best out of the 12 similarly priced 512gb SSDs.
This argument about Cache D RAM SLC NBA CPK BBC TLC MMA WTF is so hot that
Me and other dude can't even get an answer to a consumer level question
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Data cache is an order of magnitude or more in size than FTL data, so things like write through is difficult to do for data cache which eliminates FTL loss. Also "cache recovery" of a write buffer is much slower than "cache recovery" (dirtied FTL content flushed to NAND), so the risk of having unsaved FTL is an order of magnitude or more less than write buffer. In both sequential writes and random writes, the FTL flush is much faster than write buffer recovery.
Your conclusion that dramless SSDs will have less chance of a data corruption is overstated beyond any reasonable or practical consideration and academic.
The reason enterprise drives have residual power (and many MBs have this too) on power loss is not because this risk is high but that the cost of a data corruption is high and hard to detect and nail down even in that most unlikely event especially in a 24x7 operation.
Like hardware encryption in SSDs if that is a requirement for a small section of the consumer then the solution is not to get dramless but any of the consumer SSDs that have residual power capability. Even the Crucial MX500 has this.
I think it's model number starts with "SU".
I had an ADATA thumb drive die just after it's warranty expired.
So of all the
AX1
AX2
CX1
CX2 (No DRAM)
EX2 (No DRAM)
GX1 (No DRAM)
GX2 (No DRAM)
Vulcan (YES, DRAM)
Vulcan G (No DRAM)
Vulcan Z
PNJ SSD.s
Silicon Power Ace A55 (No DRAM)
SP Ace A55 is the best?
Thank you
So of all the
AX1
AX2
CX1
CX2 (No DRAM)
EX2 (No DRAM)
GX1 (No DRAM)
GX2 (No DRAM)
Vulcan (YES, DRAM)
Vulcan G (No DRAM)
Vulcan Z
PNJ SSD.s
Silicon Power Ace A55 (No DRAM)
SP Ace A55 is the best?
Thank you
just want to know which is best out of the 12 similarly priced 512gb SSDs.
This argument about Cache D RAM SLC NBA CPK BBC TLC MMA WTF is so hot that
Me and other dude can't even get an answer to a consumer level question
For something cheap, my advice would be to look for one from a company that's been around a while and has decent support. Also, I strongly recommend avoiding drives using QLC NAND, especially with these DRAM-less SATA drives. TLC will perform considerably better. Ignore claims about things like SLC caching, 3D NAND, and LDPC ECC. These are things that will be present in virtually any modern consumer drive. On these cheap SATA drives, the two main things to look at are whether they use TLC or QLC NAND and whether or not they have DRAM. If you want recommendations on specific models, you're going to have to spend a little more (on something like a Samsung 870 EVO, Crucial MX500, or Western Digital Blue 3D/SanDisk Ultra 3D). I hope this clears things up.
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