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submitted 8 months ago by geoma@lemmy.ml to c/hardware@lemmy.ml

Where I live, DRAM-less SSDs are a lot cheaper (half the price). Most sources online say "go for an SSD with DRAM". But I wonder, are cases in which a DRAM-less SSD will do just fine?

My main focus is resurrecting old laptops (from 2006 to 2015), installing GNU/Linux and an sometimes investing in an SSD will give them a performance boost, but the budget is limited because I can't sella uch an old laptop at a non very budgety price.

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[-] iopq@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

Lol, that's extremely wrong

The boot time on my laptop is measured in minutes off a hard drive. It's seconds off an SSD

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