Let's find out DRAM is an additional chip found on some SSDs that acts as a short-term memory or cache for the SSD. It stores a mapping table for your SSD, which keeps track of where data is on ...

Plextor released the M5 Pro in three capacity sizes - 128GB, 256GB and a large 512GB. Along with the NAND capacity, the DRAM volume scaled with the capacity size.

The specifications for the XP941 show a 512MB DRAM buffer, but after looking at the model numbers, we found the two larger capacity size drives use 512MB and the 128GB model uses 256MB.

We finally test the Crucial M4 128GB SSD and will check out the performance of this very popular SSD. Obviously the M4 series is nothing other then a success story, and with a lot of people not ...

A DRAM-less SSD, as the name suggests, skips this dedicated memory chip to cut costs. But that's not to say it doesn't need any memory at all. Instead, it either stores its data map directly on ...

We test the Patriot Warp v.2 Series 128GB SSD. t comes with an advertised read performance of 175 MB/sec and a 100 MB/sec write speed, how on this earth could we not like that ?

A DRAM-less SSD, as the name suggests, skips this dedicated memory chip to cut costs. But that's not to say it doesn't need any memory at all.