[convery]

Even with older RAM, if you need a large and fast storage, few solutions can compete with RAM. Especially when it comes to random R/W. You can get 4.4GBps random read from a DDR3 drive (in parents link) while the latest Gen5 NVME drives tend to cap out at ~90MBps for such loads (worst kind of loads). In addition these can be installed into any system, no need for a special server MOBO with enough RAM slots.

[oso2k]

What poor NVMe are you buying that gets 90MB/s? Even the Gen3 Kingston 256MB drive I have does well over 500MB/s in my iozone tests on a Dell Precision 3420. The only time you need mobo support is if you want to boot off NVMe but every PCI-compliant OS should be able to at least see it.

[nayuki]

> the latest Gen5 NVME drives tend to cap out at ~90MBps for such loads (worst kind of loads)

Possibly scattered 1-byte writes rather than sequential 4096-byte page writes.

[convery]

Benchmark in English here: https://www.storagereview.com/news/gigabyte-aorus-10000-gen5...