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1TB PNY CS900 2.5" SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD7CS900-1TB-RB) for
$57.99.
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Available:Key Features:- 1TB Storage Capacity
- 2.5"/7mm Form Factor
- SATA III 6 Gb/s Interface
- Up to 515 MB/s Sequential Write Speed
- Up to 535 MB/s Sequential Read Speed
- Triple-Level Cell NAND Flash Memory
- 2 Million Hours MTBF
- TRIM Support (OS Dependent)
- 2.5mm Spacer Included for 9.5mm Bays
- Windows, Mac, Linux & Ubuntu Compatible
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The nvme drives don't suffer as much because the protocol allows dramless nvme SSDs to use memory on the host computer. SATA drives cannot do that. Dramless SATA drives made sense when SSDs with dram were really expensive and these brought SSDs into affordable range. That premise isn't as strong anymore.
They will still be faster than using HDDs, so if that is the bar to judge, then it doesn't matter but if the premium for an SSD with dram is marginal especially amortized over the life of that SSD, then why bother with dramless?
If you just sequentially read and write files of the order of 80GB without any random access, then the problem won't be as bad with dramless. The size of the SLC cache will be more critical for writes.
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Only thing I thought was important for me is transfer speed?
I have about 20 DRAMless SSDs, some used to be boot drives but now all of them have similar use cases to yours, just less extreme: mostly dumping/sorting photos/vids from phones/cameras before editing/uploading/etc. I've never had a single complaint about speed with these free/cheap SSDs, even as boot drives, but I'm not on any crazy production schedule. I've also never had a single one of these SSD drives fail (IBM, Kingston, Hyundai, Inland, etc.), but then again, I'm not cycling through these that often, if at all.
I imagine you'll definitely be doing some cycling if you're constantly going through these giant raw video files, though.
I have about 20 DRAMless SSDs, some used to be boot drives but now all of them have similar use cases to yours, just less extreme: mostly dumping/sorting photos/vids from phones/cameras before editing/uploading/etc. I've never had a single complaint about speed with these free/cheap SSDs, even as boot drives, but I'm not on any crazy production schedule. I've also never had a single one of these SSD drives fail (IBM, Kingston, Hyundai, Inland, etc.), but then again, I'm not cycling through these that often, if at all.
I imagine you'll definitely be doing some cycling if you're constantly going through these giant raw video files, though.
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