Looking to add SSD/NVMe boot drives to some super budget builds. There are some 1TB drives for less than 50 but not sure about them. I'm not at all concerned about top performance, any of them will be a lot faster than 7200 drives, just reliablity. They are probably all made in the same factory in China and then labeled differently.
This would be going into completely non critical system. A crash would be a minor annoyance at worst.I feel that I should warn you that you're basing your strategy on a baseless opinion that could end up blowing up in your face if/when these drives malfunction/fail prematurely.
Computers are made up of a bunch of components that everything else in the computer relies on for the correct end result. However, the storage system's job adds an extra facet to how badly things can go wrong because there's the software configuration as well as user data to consider.
My experience with DRAM-less SSDs is that if you give them a sustained amount of work to do (e.g. copying user data from old PC to new one), write performance goes through the floor after a while but also system responsiveness becomes as bad as if one is using a HDD to boot with.How important is dram? I know it gives faster performance but is the difference in reliability that much better?
This is for a secondary machine so speed is not that important. Data transfers can run unattended. I just want reasonable boot times and be able to stream video and play mp4's mostly over my network. And I am going to make it into my dedicated transcoding machine.My experience with DRAM-less SSDs is that if you give them a sustained amount of work to do (e.g. copying user data from old PC to new one), write performance goes through the floor after a while but also system responsiveness becomes as bad as if one is using a HDD to boot with.
I personally rule out DRAM-less SSDs completely.
Hate to tell you this but even with quad channel, Intel server CPUs offer paltry memory bandwidth compared to AMD. You will probably be burning a lot of power for your transcoding needs on this system if you do it regularly enough. To me, it would be mildly interesting for VMs or maybe serving web pages.It is a super budget build, an old HP z420 Xeon E5-2695v2 workstation I got for 160USD. It already came with an updated
Corsair CX750M and 4X16 ram not sure the speed but it's running quad channel.
I am very happy with the performance of the DRAM-less drive I use as my Steam drive. The workload is like >90% reads, so the write performance and dropoff doesn't really matter.How important is dram? I know it gives faster performance but is the difference in reliability that much better?
There were a lot of replies dealing with performance which I don't really care about. I'm replacing a system that boots from an old WD 5400 red drive so speed is going to be a big improvement no matter what I get.I am very happy with the performance of the DRAM-less drive I use as my Steam drive. The workload is like >90% reads, so the write performance and dropoff doesn't really matter.
If it wiggles even a little bit it can lose connection. You don't want that to happen.I finally cracked open the Lenovo and installed the NVMe drives. Only one slot has a retaining screw. I couldn't find one that would fit. Any reason I need one? The heat sink is pretty tight and there doesn't seem to any movement possible on the drive.
It has 2 NVMe slots but only had one screw.If it wiggles even a little bit it can lose connection. You don't want that to happen.
The drive didn't come with extra screws?
If you have a local indie computer shop or cell phone repair place, they'll probably have the right size screws around. Otherwise you can get a set of them for like $5-10 but that'll have way more screws than just the one you need.