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it makes sense to skimp a little bit on a purchase to save a few bucks

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whopper without cheese a keyboard without RGB or a hotel room without the

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love tub and there's a breed of SSDs

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that's been hitting the market that uses a similar philosophy I'm talking about

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SSDs without DRAM that are sold at a

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lower price point than most other models well I mean hold on a second Linus SSDs

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without onboard memory that sounds fine

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why would an SSD need its own ran well

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here's the thing whenever your operating system wants to fetch something from

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your SSD like a game you want to play or a business plan that you need to work on

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it needs to know where that data is

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physically located on the drive in order

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to know this your SSD keep saying map of sorts that actively tracks where

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everything is I mean most people don't know this but your SSD has to move your

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data around quite a bit so that you don't end up with a situation where some

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of its flash memory cells wear out faster than the others it's a protective

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strategy called wear leveling on most SSDs this data map is kept on a DRAM

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chip because D ran is much faster than

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the NAND flash that your SSD uses for data storage in fact you can experience

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this for yourself if you ever use your main system DRAM as a RAM disk something

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you can learn more about here keeping the map on DRAM also results in better

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performance because it's faster speed means that the OS won't have to wait as

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long for the SSD to locate the desired data however it is obviously possible to

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eliminate DRAM entirely and keep this mapping data either on the main flash

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memory itself or just copy it over to

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your system memory after you turn your computer on and as we alluded to earlier

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an SSD without DRAM tends to be cheaper

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than the one that has it but she does

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not necessarily equate to good value

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though if all you're looking for is better than a hard drive performance for

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the least possible amount of money could that gas station sushi SST be good

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enough well as it turns out moving the

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data map off the DRAM cache creates some issues that are hard to ignore because

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it takes so long for the SSD to locate data performance on DRAM las' SSDs is

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usually noticeably slower than it is on

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mainstream SSDs especially for random

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reads and writes the small data operations that access different parts

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of the drive that incidentally make up the bulk of the average users experience

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if they have their OS installed on the SSD and with drives that use the NAND

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flash to store the data map this has the added drawback of putting more wear on

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the drive than it would otherwise have so it'll be slower and then adding

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insult to injury it may actually die sooner you might have noticed that the

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warranty for a dear analyst SSD is often shorter than for other drives

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so if you're trying to save money on your next essay purchase use caution if

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you start looking at DRAM less SSDs find

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as many reviews as you can about the particular model you're looking at and

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you know what now forget it I'm actually not going to recommend any of them it's

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better to find an inexpensive SSD with a

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dram cache in most cases you don't end

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up saving that much money anyway and so the moral of the story here is sometimes

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trying to cheap out just isn't worth it though with that said I've heard that

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stocking up on store brand aluminium foil is a pretty good idea

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and if you're the kind of person who stocks up on not just aluminum foil but

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also computers you might want to try out synergy synergy solves once and for all

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the problem of having too many keyboards and mice on your desk it's a software

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tool that lets you just share one keyboard or Mouse across multiple

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systems be they PC Mack or even

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Linux-based you just configure where all the different screens are and the mouse

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cursor moves seamlessly between them no

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more messing around and it's even got great features like clipboard sharing

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dragging and dropping between the computers custom hotkeys and more it's

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