Question Gamer SSD in real world

[Arkaign]

This strongly reflects what I've personally observed for ages now : SSDs haven't really moved that much in real world experience in most cases. I still have an OCX Vertex 4 256GB from eons ago I recently tested head to head against a Gen4 nVME drive with my 3700X, and beyond simple file copies, most operations and loads felt basically identical.

So, unless you're spending heaps of time waiting on file copies, don't worry about going 10/10th on your SSD, or dumping a SATA/Gen3 nVME thinking you'll see some major benefits with a fancy new one. It's probably the least noticable difference for most users and basically any gamer. As long as you aren't running off HDD or a controllerless model, you're good to go.

 

[Bavor]

I've done my own tests with a SATA-III 2.5" SSD, PCI Express 3.0 x4 NVMe SSD, and PCI Express 4.0 x4 NVMe SSD. The time differences for most games in game loading times and level loading times were so small that I needed to go into the video and measure the time using Adobe Premiere to measure the differences with any accuracy. If I remember correctly, there were only 2 games where the NVMe SSDs beat the SATA SSD by more than 1 second in game loading times.