Anyone know if ssd's will go on sale soon? PBTECH/ AMAZON/ any electronic hardware store? Just need a 240-256gb SATA SSD with Dram.
Looking for cheapie SATA SSD with Dram
saxasianguy on 18/03/2026 - 10:46
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Check the second hand market, that is where i have bought most of my drives
You won't find many reviews of this Chinese SSD on the internet but I have bought a few from this store for use in my NAS, and they are solid with good read/write speeds. Fikwot FS810 https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005009551646300.html. Amazon Also also sell the Fikwot, but you'll pay the extra Bezos tax if you buy from there.
It doesn't say whether it has DRAM (why does that matter to you?) but all versions up to 2TB are TLC which is generally better in terms of longevity and write speed than QLC and it supposedly has a 3 year warranty.
256Gb version would come around NZ $72-75 inc. GST delivered.
If you want a cheap NZ SSD, notbadtech have 256Gb starting at $50 + delivery. (Biostar, Walram and Kingspec). This Kingspec is probably TLC, not sure about the others.
I can get cheaper ssd directly in china if i wanted non dram hence why looking for dram ssd's only.
Why do you want DRAM in particular? Most drives have SLC or pseudo SLC cache which speeds things up quite adequately for most purposes.
All 256Gb SATA drives are fairly low end compared to NVME.
If you wanted something second hand with DRAM you could check out Electus https://www.electuscomputers.co.nz/index.php?route=product/s…
Something like a Intel PRO 5450 has DRAM (but only DDR3 DRAM) and a SLC cache for $39.90 plus shipping. It's SATA M2 but would work with and M2 to SATA adapter that you can buy on Ali for around $10.
Second hand is more risky though since you don't know the TBW drive health although most ones I have bought are nowhere near their limit in my experience
If it has to have DRAM the only mainstream options are basically Samsung EVO 870 or ADATA SU800 (or Crucial MX500 but it's been end of life for a while).
There's a pretty big premium for those models over the cheapest models (SU650, BX500, etc…) and the capacity per dollar will be terrible for the 256GB models.
If it has to be SATA and has to have DRAM, I'd just buy something like this from Amazon:
~$167 NZD incl. GST currently - Samsung EVO 870 500GB