Question Team group cx1 240gb sata ssd vs Team group gx2 256gb sata ssd?

[fgr1234]

What the best?

 

[lvt]

What the best?

They are the same with the CX being a standard edition and the GX being a high-performance edition.

However, none of them has DRAM cache.

There are SSD from other brands having the same capacity but with DRAM cache.

If you wonder whether DRAM cache is important :

DRAM Cache
Whenever the system instructs the SSD to fetch some data, the drive needs to know where exactly the data is stored inside the memory cells. For this reason, the drive keeps a sort of “map” which actively tracks where all the data is physically stored. This “map” is stored on a drive’s DRAM Cache. This cache is a separate high-speed memory chip inside the SSD, which can often be of significant importance. This form of memory is much faster than the separate NAND Flash inside the SSD.

Importance of DRAM Cache
A DRAM cache can be important in more ways than just holding a map of the data. An SSD moves the data around quite a bit in an effort to extend its lifespan. This technique is called “Wear Leveling” and is employed in an effort to prevent some of the memory cells from wearing out too quickly. A DRAM cache can be of tremendous help in this process. The DRAM cache can also improve the overall speed of the drive because the OS would not have to wait as long to locate the desired data on the drive. This can improve performance significantly in “OS Drives”, in which there are a lot of small operations that happen very quickly. DRAM-less SSDs also deliver significantly worse performance in Random R/W scenarios. Common tasks like Web Browsing and OS processes rely on good Random R/W performance. Therefore it is not a very good idea to save a few bucks and pick up a DRAM-less SSD over one with a proper caching system.

 

[fgr1234]

They are the same with the CX being a standard edition and the GX being a high-performance edition.

However, none of them has DRAM cache.

There are SSD from other brands having the same capacity but with DRAM cache.

If you wonder whether DRAM cache is important :

I have very small budget. Why u said that GX is a high performance edition? According to "https://www.teamgroupinc.com/ru/product/cx1" and "https://www.teamgroupinc.com/ru/product/gx2" GX2 is not so fast like a CX1

 

[lvt]

I have very small budget. Why u said that GX is a high performance edition? According to "https://www.teamgroupinc.com/ru/product/cx1" and "https://www.teamgroupinc.com/ru/product/gx2" GX2 is not so fast like a CX1

High-performance doesn't mean just the speed, the GX serie can have capacity up to 2TB while the CX serie is limited at 960GB.

In fact the GX 2TB is faster than the CX 960GB.

Where are you located?

I bought my 256GB Gigabyte SSD for less than $30 from an online seller, it has 128MB DRAM cache which is exactly what I need.

I'm not saying that DRAM-less SSD are bad, but if you are using it as Windows disk, better buy one with DRAM cache. The cache is not there for fun.

 

[fgr1234]

High-performance doesn't mean just the speed, the GX serie can have capacity up to 2TB while the CX serie is limited at 960GB.

In fact the GX 2TB is faster than the CX 960GB.

Where are you located?

I bought my 256GB Gigabyte SSD for less than $30 from an online seller, it has 128MB DRAM cache which is exactly what I need.

I'm not saying that DRAM-less SSD are bad, but if you are using it as Windows disk, better buy one with DRAM cache. The cache is not there for fun.

in my region cheapest 256gb ssd with dram cache got double cost of cx1/gx2 and have same 200 tbw or 150 tbw