So they’re hot garbage for general use because you say so, and we should ignore real world benchmarks because they don’t tie in with your personal opinion? Best of luck with that... you’ll be telling us PCIe 4 NVMe is amazingly fast compared to everything else next
So I was curious on account of you clearly head in sanding that link and watched it.
There's a cacheless drive sitting right in the middle of all the other drives in those tests
Sounds like you need to be more specific if you think they're "hot garbage".
They're garbage on account of having owned 2, one which was a no name chinese brand that I got dirt cheap and refunded on the premise that it was faulty. The other is a sandisk SSD Plus 480GB which I still (unfortunately) own and bought thinking it would be as good as the old 120GB Sandisk SSDPlus in my laptop not knowing that Sandisk have done the old bait & switch and updated a product with worse internals.
I've watched the link and it just benchmarks loading times which they're fine for sometimes but then at times they are really really really bad at. They are incredibly inconsistent depending on whether the drive knows where the data is. Linus explains it quite well:
Especially if the game streams in data post load like GTA V and Modern Warfare. I've been shot with invisible guns, waited up to a minute for a camo to load, driven off the map in GTA V into San Andreas and experienced stuttering like a powerpoint presentation. Even on HDDs those games don't do that (I bought the drive so I no longer had to play the games on the HDD).
Here is a quick AS-SSD benchmark I ran on the barely used, mostly empty Sandisk compared to the Samsung 830 which I've heavily used for 8 years. The sequential is fine but it just broke down on the later tests.
I also loaded up GTA V whilst writing this post just to see what would happen. I am gonna link it here but though the music playing in game is not exactly forum friendly (also my driving is garbage as I was looking at task manager)
https://youtu.be/T7z3hT9SjQ8 - those stutters are not just the recording plus just before the jump you can see the low res geometry of the rock.
I just don't want anyone else to make the same mistake I did, pay the few quid extra for one with DRAM. And if you don't believe me then feel free to buy this drive off me when I list it on the MM cause I am going to replace it.
