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mynotaurus
@mynotaurus

oh my god i cant believe this is how i find out why my computer has been so incredibly slow


cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

THIS IS THE FUCKING REASON

SHIT EXISTS EXCLUSIVELY TO BAMBOOZLE AND BEFUDDLE PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT THEY HAD MADE THE RIGHT CHOICE BECAUSE EVERYTHING'S LABELED THE FUCKING SAME

IF THEY WORKED RIGHT WITHOUT DRAM NONE OF THEM WOULD HAVE IT

you want my politics? "there is exactly one correct way to make every product and anything else is fraud."


plumpan
@plumpan

Mechanical hard drives, SSDs, even SD cards, are all little computers. They have to be, because storage has been pushed to the point where none of these mediums are reliable as-is. Flash needs it's use spread out, and typically also does things like treating cells as SLC until space fills up, then switching to multi level. Mechanical drives are constantly fighting keeping all of the little magic fields in place and happy, even running self tests when nothing is going on.

In most situations, they refuse to tell the host system about any of this. At best you get "hey something fucked up!", but usually you have to ask for things like "hey how many sectors have you reallocated?" and even then you don't get detailed info like say, where those sectors were. And of course, sometimes they fuck up and they don't know it happened.

All of this is why you should not trust any single storage device.

You need more than one, and you need to know if any of them are telling porky pies.


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in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:

The most annoying thing about this is, as far as I can tell, this isn't an advertised thing when you're looking for drives. You just have to assume the cheap ones don't have dr-

Wait isn't it DRAMless? NAND is the flash right?

LOL understandable.

I was looking this up the other day and my conclusion was "fuck it I'll just go look for used enterprise drives instead". I think even the smasmug evos are dramless now???

yea i wish Ram cached m.2 SSD's were more common and also not like 3x the price of a cacheless SSD

EDIT: it would help if manufacturers would clearly state if their drive has DRAM cache
for example the WD Black SN850X is listed as Cacheless on sites like PCpartpicker, but it is actually a Cached Drive according to reviews wich took a closer look

looking for a M.2 SSD to buy SUCKS!

in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:

Didn't they "solve" the dramless problem by … making an interface where the SSD could ask the bios for a chunk of system ram, and going in and using that for its own bookkeeping via DMA?