Do not buy DRAMless NVMes for the ones in a case.
While DRAMless drives are fine normally as many host systems support HMB, allowing the drive to map some host RAM to use as cache, the NVMe/USB bridges have no such RAM and your performance will be utter horse shit
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2026-11-09 19:19:52 UTC
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