is this budget SSD good? planning to get one to store some daily games for the loading speed.
It is really cheap compared to WD and SD.

yis DRAM really that important?
Crucial mx500 better you mean because it has DRAM? i am eyeing for A400 because of the pricing hehe, not still searching for other brands tho.
i only plan to get one SSD drive purely for game storage.

What is your personal experience in using DRAM-less SSD as OS drive ?
I will be testing its lifespan and doing a review for A400 since I am using it as my OS drive to see if what they said is true about DRAM-less SSD.

I also just bought Kingston A400 and i used it for my OS. I noticed a very annoying issue with it. more often than not, my screen will freeze(unresponsive) along with the mouse cursor sometimes being able to move and sometimes not being able (stuck) but sounds are still being played without a problem during those unresponsive moments. Especially when programs are being opened.

Damn bloody annoying and it only happened right after i switched to A400 SSD. reformatted it and still the same shit.

does that have to do with the SSD not having DRAM cache?

There aren't any winners in our roundup today, and we don't hand out participation ribbons. For most of us enthusiasts, we shouldn’t even consider DRAMless SSDs with planar NAND. It's true that the drives are faster than a hard disk drive, but when you lean on them with a slightly elevated workload, they can stall, stutter, and deliver a worse user experience than you would get with a spinning mechanical disk.

A cheap SDD is much better than HDD.

I personally have no problem using A400.

Mine still working fine, maybe my luck still with me.

Strictly for OS drive and chrome. Still have 40GB of free space.

Not too bad as steam game drive, no?

im using this ssd, im upgrading from an ancient hdd, mobo just support sata2, mayb thats why i didnt encounter any slutter issue. the speed is amazing if u are upgrading from hdd.

Many are oem produces for them. Overall value for money a400. See how you use it as well, motherboard and other things play big role.

How about the cheap Kingston a1000? Same issue?

Although Kingston A1000 performance is one of the worse for NVME SSD, my opinion it's still better than SATA SSD. Even when against Barracuda SATA SSD.





https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Seagate...D_500_GB/4.html

NVME always the better choice against SATA because of the bigger bandwidth and better latency. Unless of course if the drive is really bad until SATA SSD can outperform it.

Thanks. I bought it because it is cheap, and I happen to have an m.2 slot on my motherboard.

Not RM200 more?

Cheapest I saw A1000 is RM202. So that makes 760P is expensive by almost 50%. Does the higher price justify the performance?

Anandtech test is more like stress test of the drive. Techpowerup also do normal user usage test.
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Intel/S...p_512_GB/8.html

Win 10 startup time
760P 17.7 seconds
A1000 19.2 seconds

Winrar compression time
760P 35.5 seconds
A1000 42.5 seconds

MP3 indexing time
760P 1.7 seconds
A1000 2.3 seconds

Avast anti virus scan time
760P 51.2 seconds
A1000 62.6 seconds

Photoshop editing time
760P 61.5 seconds
A1000 54.3 seconds

RM350 for a1000 (480gb). To store my games.

Are there's stuttering issue as what some are complaining?

Seagate Barracuda SSD is not DRAM-less?

Samsung is for those who can afford it, they are among the best in the market due to their good quality control.

guys, i plan to get a budget M2 SSD? any recommendation

saw a WD green 480GB for RM220, quite nice

any other better alternative?

pheww, luckily i'm come across this thread..almost buying kingston a400 240gb today..

i'm planning to upgrade my laptop hdd to budget ssd, and replace malfunctioned dvd with hdd caddy fitted with old hdd

but then, based on many opinions here, i guess i'm gonna get the mx500 as my primary ssd