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submitted 6 months ago by geoma@lemmy.ml to c/hardware@lemmy.ml

Where I live, DRAM-less SSDs are a lot cheaper (half the price). Most sources online say "go for an SSD with DRAM". But I wonder, are cases in which a DRAM-less SSD will do just fine?

My main focus is resurrecting old laptops (from 2006 to 2015), installing GNU/Linux and an sometimes investing in an SSD will give them a performance boost, but the budget is limited because I can't sella uch an old laptop at a non very budgety price.

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[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

But it gets "done" immediately when you have write caching enabled and the file fits in ram. Which is on by default for non removable storage. It's only benchmarks which disable write caching in order to separate PC performance from the drive being tested.

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