Please Stop Buying the Wrong SSD

Published on 8 Apr 2026, 17:32

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What makes an SSD good or bad? Did you know there's an important hardware difference between top-performing and low-cost storage devices? You might not, because many SSD makers don't talk about DRAM.

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:45 What's the difference?
2:44 Why does it matter?
4:16 It wasn't always this way
5:30 HMB isn't useless
6:13 Your OS storage should use DRAM
6:44 What can we do about it?