Hi everyone,
I'm currently planning a bit of an overhaul for my home workstation and could really use some perspective from the hardware experts here. I’ve been eyeing the new Crucial P3 Plus SSDs lately, mostly because the 4TB capacity at that price point is incredibly tempting for my local media storage and project files. However, one specific point in the technical specs has me a bit hesitant: the apparent lack of a dedicated DRAM cache.
In my personal experience, I’ve found that the "weakest link" in a system only reveals itself once you upgrade everything else. I recently transitioned my local network over to a 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) setup, using some SFP+ network adapters to speed up transfers between my main rig and my NAS. My goal was to finally stop waiting on progress bars for large video renders, but I'm worried about how a DRAM-less drive will handle sustained writes.
While the P3 Plus claims speeds up to 5,000 MB/s—which is obviously more than enough to saturate a 10Gbps connection—I’ve heard that these types of drives can occasionally see a massive performance drop once the initial SLC cache fills up during long transfers. I’d hate to move a 100GB https://serverorbit.com/network-devices/network-adapter/10-gigabit-en folder over the fast network only to have the drive's write speed tank halfway through because it lacks that dedicated cache buffer.
Has anyone here tested these newer 176-layer drives in a high-speed networking environment yet? I’m curious if the Host Memory Buffer (HMB) technology is actually efficient enough to keep up with a 10-Gigabit link, or if I should just bite the bullet and spend more on a drive with a physical DRAM chip.
What do you guys think—is the lack of DRAM a dealbreaker for high-speed file transfers, or am I overthinking the impact for a prosumer setup?
nenegad149 (1) 
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