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I feel like a DRAMless drive should not have the "black" designation for a WD drive.

Serious question. Can you find recent benchmarks to support that? I know this used to be critically important for PCI3 drives and older, but now...it doesn't seem like that's true.

Lots of different use case benchmarks in this video (https://youtu.be/N-pba_MzqV8). Its the only one I could find comparing similar tier within same brand (Samsung 990 anything will waffle stomp an Orico so that would be lame). The NV7000T (DRAM less) performs better than the NV7000 for OS drive synthetic benchmark. I concede that it is worse in a 20 hour endurance write test. As a content creator it takes me a few minutes to empty all 4 cards. And this video supports it with synthetic tests for data drives giving DRAM a 1.9% advantage as a data drive.

As a gamer, the files sit on the drive. I have seem some low quality reviews on this showing load times as different as 34 vs 39 seconds, but they were different brands and didn't seem like direct competitors.

I can find all kinds of evidence that if you buy a good enough drive (high end PCI3 and basically anything PCI4 or PCI 5), there isn't a meaningful real world difference. Game load times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD2pn1_jWPU. Like even though I referenced synthetic tests, we're also talking about opening a word document in 1.2 seconds vs 1.4 seconds, and my internal chronograph is not calibrated to that level of detail.

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