Review Add S90 Lite SSD Review: Capacity on the Cheap

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The Add S90 Lite is a mediocre budget PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD that’s best bought at 2TB with current pricing. It’s generic on the whole, aside from having weak sustained performance.

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I don't understand the push for "cheaper" DRAM-less options. It's usually all of a $10-15 difference to get a drive with dram and a higher quality brand as well these days. Plus always need to check to be sure the dramless drive has HBM. In addition, unless things have changed insanely recently, serious drawbacks if you want to use dramless in a external enclosure as HBM is not used over USB. And writing large files is another area where dramless takes a hit. People like to talk down about how most people won't notice, but 4K video file moves is going to tell, much less if you are doing any type of video editing. That said, if its just a boot drive, or holding games, save the few bucks, if its a QLC drive, may hvae even more profound slowing when the drive gets closer to full since its using the drive nand as SLC cache facade. Price of nvmes is just too competitive to get hung up on the small price difference...especially when they won't tell you what the TBW warranty is, as SMART is always such a reliable and dependable measure and truthful reporter of what the drives up to...