When most people think of NVMe SSD’s they think of high-end expensive drives that are incredibly high performance. Today we will be looking at something a little out of the ordinary and something aimed at the more budget-minded consumer looking to get a bit more out of his storage.

Today we will be looking at the Toshiba OCZ RC100 which is a DRAMless SSD but features something rather cool which may help make the difference in performance. A new technology called Host Memory Buffer (HMB) Host Memory Buffer is a low level shared memory interface at the OS level that allows the Toshiba RC100 to access part of the DRAM for its own caching space in place of having memory on the device itself.