HOT: ADATA Ulitimate SU630 3D Nand 2.5 960GB SSD $75

While this deal represents a lot of space for the money, be advised that the drive does not have DRAM cache. I do not suggest using it for an OS drive. The best use case is secondary storage, something like a steam library or media storage. This drive uses QLC memory vs the SU650 that uses TLC, and it has less than half the write endurance of the SU650.

For a little bit more money, the SU800 has DRAM and is a suitable OS drive.
 
Does this drive use HMB since it's DRAM-less? If so, that would make it suitable as an OS drive for Windows 10, right? Host memory buffer technology needs OS support, otherwise the drive will use its own slower NAND storage to map itself.

Granted there are open box 1TB Intel 660p going for $75 on Newegg, I'd rather roll the dice on that than a DRAM-less SSD.
 
SPARTAN VI said:
Does this drive use HMB since it's DRAM-less? If so, that would make it suitable as an OS drive for Windows 10, right? Host memory buffer technology needs OS support, otherwise the drive will use its own slower NAND storage to map itself.

Granted there are open box 1TB Intel 660p going for $75 on Newegg, I'd rather roll the dice on that than a DRAM-less SSD.
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Considering this is a 2.5 inch SATA drive, HMB is not an option as its part of the NVMe protocol and not the SATA protocol.
 
FrozenSteel said:
Considering this is a 2.5 inch SATA drive, HMB is not an option as its part of the NVMe protocol and not the SATA protocol.
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Ah I automatically expected this to be a m.2 NVMe. SATA and DRAM-less, peeyew.
 
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Still a good deal for a laptop that has an expansion slot. How is the reliability though? I know some years back many of the off brands has reliability issues that Micron/Samsung/Intel largely avoided.
 
Flogger23m said:
Still a good deal for a laptop that has an expansion slot. How is the reliability though? I know some years back many of the off brands has reliability issues that Micron/Samsung/Intel largely avoided.
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Reliability should be very good. Adata makes quality drives. I have an nvme one in my gaming rig right now, and I've used a 2.5" Adata SSD in a laptop for a couple years.

The SU630 in this particular deal uses Intel made QLC nand, so it should basically be similar to what is in the 660p that's highly regarded.
 
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